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Michael Viney
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Michael Longley: ‘Most men don’t like intelligent women. I just hang on their every word’
The poet met his wife, Edna, as a student at Trinity College Dublin. She has been the constant in a life that Longley reflects on in his new selected poems
Ethna Viney obituary: Irish Times nature columnist, environmental and feminist
When Michael Viney’s second column An Eye on Nature answering readers queries began, Ethna ran it for years under his name until she was finally acknowledged as the author
Veteran Irish Times nature columnist Ethna Viney to be laid to rest in Mayo
For 33 years she wrote the weekly Eye on Nature column for The Irish Times which appeared alongside her husband’s Michael’s nature columns
Former Irish Times columnist Ethna Viney dies aged 95
Author was a feminist, economist and environmentalist who wrote the weekly Eye on Nature column for 33 years
Obituaries of 2023: 50 people who died this year
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
Michael Viney’s Natural World review: Late Irish Times writer’s book achieves the near impossible
Browser: Plus reviews of A Ramble About Tallaght: History, People, Places, by Albert Perris, and Twiggy Woman by Oein DeBhairduin
Michael Viney: Nature writer, illustrator and journalist’s last book launched in Letterfrack
Daughter Michele Viney says writer who worked to complete ‘Natural World’ right until the very end ‘died with his boots on’
Michael Viney used to say Atlantic storms had no menace in them. They do now
Worldview: Viney would have been interested in a new book by Kohei Saito, which explores Marx’s evolving ecological thinking
Michael Viney memorial service: ‘A determined spirit’ who ‘touched many hearts’
Writer, artist, broadcaster and Irish Times columnist’s life was celebrated with affection at Lakelands Crematorium in Cavan
Michael Viney: Three of his best columns from a 60-year career
The late journalist was best known for his Another Life column, describing life in Mayo and interactions with nature
Michael Viney: Why I moved to Mayo in 1977 and never came back
In this 2015 article, the late Irish TImes journalist looks back on his life on the road less travelled
Michael Viney: 20 of his finest drawings and paintings from a 60-year career
As well as being a master of words, the late journalist produced all his own illustrations, inspired by the Mayo landscape
Michael Viney was an Englishman who opened up Ireland for Irish people, writes Fintan O’Toole
Tribute: The late journalist, a sensitive observer of nature and weather, turned an equally sharp eye on Irish society
Irish Times writer Michael Viney dies aged 90
Journalist and author composed his final Another Life column in February, after decades recording Ireland’s natural life
Another Life: A head start to save our threatened birds?
Michael Viney: Captive breeding of eggs taken from the wild can contribute to our conservation programmes
Bridges were swept away in our first big flood here. What lies ahead would make anybody anxious
Another Life: Extreme weather can be traumatic to live through. We need to grow increasingly alert to the psychological damage it does
Michael Viney: White-toothed invader puts Irish pygmy shrew at risk
New species arriving through human activity turning Ireland into ‘ecological junkyard’
Another Life: Connacht’s bog-deal - a gift of fierce fuel?
Michael Viney: The last ramparts of bog-deal, piled at the margins of fields cleared from peatland, are darkening in November rain
Michael Viney tells Fintan O’Toole about his 60 years at The Irish Times
Six decades ago our Another Life columnist wrote his first article for The Irish Times. It was the start of a long relationship with the paper and its readers
In a Word . . . Media
Irish media for a long time did a medium job – at best – of holding power to account
The Irish Times view on the Mother and Baby Homes report: a culture of silence and shame
What emerges from the files, and from the graves of the unregarded innocents, is a dark story that will take some time to absorb into the official narratives of independent Ireland
We’ve gone from housing hens to online supermarket dependency
Will Covid-19 begin a resurgence of the 1970s withdrawal from growth-driven capitalism?
Why is Ireland having a bumper year for blackberries?
In season: You’ve filled bucket after bucket with plump blackberries, now what to do with them?
The secret to growing tremendously tasty tomatoes
It takes time and expertise to coax these greedy, sun-loving, thirsty plants to give of their very best
The best of Eileen Battersby, from Tolstoy to Paul Simon
Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more
Small woods of native trees are beautiful but ecologically dodgy
Ecologists push for a critical mass of cover, extending and merging existing clusters
Michael Viney: The false widow spider is not dangerous, but ...
On walls and boundary railings of Lucan’s public park, 54 were counted on one visit in July
Naming nature’s creatures – great, small and microscopic
Michael Viney: We have never known about more species – and the list is growing
History preserved in the whorls of Irish tree-rings
Michael Viney: Stephen Galvin’s work established the long-lived yew as a reliable barometer of environmental change
Michael Viney elected to the Royal Irish Academy
‘Irish Times’ columnist and environmentalist among 18 people recognised by RIA
From the archive: Happy days – when the milk arrived at your door
Published: April 24th, 1967. Photograph by Gordon Standing
Future of the environment desperately needs a new storyline
Unless we attend to health of our environment, our economies cannot survive
Gay community recalls dark days before decriminalisation
UK moves to pardon gay men prompts calls to examine how they were treated in State
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