Rosita Boland

Rosita Boland discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Rosita Boland was born in County Clare in 1965 and lives in Dublin where she is Senior Features Writer at the Irish Times. She has published two collections of poems, Muscle Creek and Dissecting the Heart. She has travelled extensively, most recently in South East Asia and her travel books include Sea Legs: Hitch-hiking the Coast of Ireland Alone (1992), A Secret Map of Ireland (2005), Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel (2019) and Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships (2021). She won the Hennessy Award for First Fiction in 1997. Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker https://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself My Kitchen Rules Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Kitchen_Rules The Nazca Lines https://www.history.com/topics/south-america/nazca-lines The Guinness Book of Records 1967 https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/60/publishing.html The musical toy pig held at Greenwich Maritime Museum https://londonist.com/london/secret/titanic-collection-greenwich-kidbrooke The Derrynaflan Chalice https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/The-Treasury/Artefact/Derrynaflan-Chalice/a3e7607b-4582-4f95-a861-313d1c0b5f0e This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm