Advertisement

Readers like you keep news free for everyone.

More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal.

For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away.

Support us today
Not now
Sunday 28 May 2023 Dublin: 14°C

# longform

# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: A classic interview with the 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' Tina Turner
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
5.4k
1
5 hours ago
This year
2023
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The romance novelist who faked her own death
Settle down in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
15.2k
0
Jan 22nd 2023, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: She was an award-winning writer - but did she really exist?
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
19.6k
3
Jan 8th 2023, 9:00 AM
# great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The best longreads of the year
Time for our bumper annual round-up.
14.8k
0
Jan 1st 2023, 9:00 AM
Last year
2022
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Hollywood's latest troubling diet craze
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
21.3k
2
Dec 4th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The World Cup's forgotten team
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
12.7k
0
Nov 20th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Are we all just prisoners of geography?
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
15.3k
0
Nov 13th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The last word from Angela Lansbury
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
17.6k
0
Oct 16th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The mystery phone calls about 'crimes' at Riverside Drive
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
25.1k
3
Sep 18th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How the Don't Worry Darling drama captured the internet
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
29.2k
0
Sep 11th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The unique fate of Mikhail Gorbachev
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
13.8k
0
Sep 4th 2022, 9:00 AM
# Podcast
The Explainer: How have abortion laws changed in the US since Roe V Wade was overturned?
Listen in to hear US-based journalist Marion McKeone explain.
3.7k
1
Sep 1st 2022, 6:00 PM
# seven great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The socialite who was really a GRU agent
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
17.7k
2
Aug 28th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How amateurs solved the Zodiac killer's 340 cipher
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
17.8k
0
Aug 21st 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The people who really hate summer
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
19.4k
6
Aug 14th 2022, 9:00 AM
# sitdown sunday
Sitdown Sunday: How indie authors are using AI to overcome writers block
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
10.2k
0
Jul 24th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The mystery of Michael Flatley's film Blackbird
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
29.1k
5
Jul 17th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Inside Boris Johnson's money network
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
45.5k
4
Jul 10th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Who benefitted from London's Olympics 2012 developments?
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
18.0k
2
Jul 3rd 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The disappearance of flight MH370
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
22.0k
3
Jun 26th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
11.2k
0
May 29th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The rise of buy now, pay later apps
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
12.5k
1
May 15th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The secret life of mushrooms
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
766
0
Apr 17th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How Anna Delvey's cons got uncovered
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
26.8k
0
Feb 13th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Rescued after falling deep inside a cave
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
18.2k
0
Jan 30th 2022, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The tourists who experience 'India syndrome' after falling in love with the country
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
34.7k
9
Jan 16th 2022, 9:00 AM
All time
# 5 festive reads
5 Christmas longreads for the day that's in it
Need a break? Have a read of one of these.
13.7k
1
Dec 25th 2021, 10:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: Succession actor Jeremy Strong on his intense approach to his craft
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
25.1k
1
Dec 12th 2021, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: A road trip with Ireland's most exciting hip hop acts
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
18.0k
0
Dec 5th 2021, 9:00 AM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: How they made the seminal horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
12.9k
0
Nov 14th 2021, 9:00 AM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: Is it possible to reach peak fitness after 50? Yes
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
30.0k
8
Nov 5th 2021, 8:00 PM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: The invisible work of disabled people
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
6.4k
1
Nov 4th 2021, 8:00 PM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: How Korean music, TV and film conquered the world
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
7.5k
7
Nov 3rd 2021, 8:00 PM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: How two journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
15.8k
8
Nov 2nd 2021, 8:00 PM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: What we learn when we unfreeze the Ice Age
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
9.3k
0
Oct 29th 2021, 8:00 PM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: How Nicholas Braun becomes the bumbling Cousin Greg in Succession
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
17.9k
11
Oct 24th 2021, 8:00 PM
# 7 great reads
Sitdown Sunday: The man who lived in an airport for 15 years
Settle back in a comfy chair and sit back with some of the week’s best longreads.
96.6k
6
Oct 24th 2021, 9:00 AM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: The female judges in hiding in Afghanistan
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
9.9k
0
Oct 22nd 2021, 8:00 PM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: Meet the voices behind the Squid Game VIPs
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
12.4k
1
Oct 21st 2021, 8:00 PM
# evening sitdown
Your Evening Longread: The epic new TV show that could be the next Game of Thrones
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
28.8k
15
Oct 20th 2021, 8:00 PM
1
2
3
4
5
Next Articles