Centre of excellence – Frank McNally on Irish literature’s most famous phrase and the rise of Gallic football
Another cameo for Macintosh Man
Man behind the wire – Frank McNally on the incarceration of Dublin’s Grand Canal
A symphony of JCB engines and jack-hammers
Darkness into light – Frank McNally on a celebratory funeral with a bleak backstory
Harry Gleeson was brought back to his home village 83 years after he was wrongfully executed
Benighted opera – Frank McNally on a rare performance of a 19th-century classic
William Vincent Wallace’s Lurline has a colourful past
Remains of Harry Gleeson, wrongly executed for murder 83 years ago, laid to rest in Tipperary
Department of Justice informed Gleeson’s family last week his remains had been positively identified in a burial area within Mountjoy Prison
Arms and the woman – Frank McNally on Irish-American writer Kathleen Norris’s controversial salute
Saluting the flag
Canadian rhapsody – Frank McNally on a party to celebrate Canada Day
The party was unusual for, among other things, hosting an exhibition in a greenhouse
Making a show of us – Frank McNally on a 1927 film that outraged Irish America
For decades, The Callahans and the Murphys was believed completely lost
Simon’s swansong – Frank McNally on the passing of a much-loved Dublin café
Cherished cafés come and go, like the generations that love them
Horns of a dilemma (continued) – Frank McNally on a Dutch-Irish art mystery, now being investigated in The Hague
A long-missing artwork and its partial rediscovery
Little Bighorn of a dilemma – Frank McNally on a mystery Monaghan man who followed Custer to Montana
Among the more than 100 Irish soldiers who marched with Custer was a “Sergeant Thomas Murray, born in Co Monaghan”
Hose maketh the man – Frank McNally on a male sartorial dilemma
A 28-year-old film star with GAA-honed ankles sets the pace