Frank McNally on the joys of Europe’s biggest city park at a time of pandemic‘The deer grazed safely, unworried by dogs. People walked singly or in twos. An occasional lone cyclist passed’Fri Apr 10 2020 - 19:01
Frank McNally on James Joyce and Ireland’s bubonic plague scare of 1900A journal of Dublin in the plague yearThu Apr 09 2020 - 19:01
Coronavirus curve-ball: Frank McNally on a bad year for forecastersA hard year to have 20/20 visionThu Apr 09 2020 - 00:01
Wordsworth’s daffodils were not lonely – or even aloneFormer rugby player Ollie Campbell said he enjoyed the poem because it was ‘simple, like myself’Wed Apr 08 2020 - 00:01
Ring a Ring – Frank McNally on the shrinking (and expanding) circles of lockdownFri Apr 03 2020 - 18:45
Distance learning – Frank McNally on the revelations of lockdownReally, the adjustments have been minimalThu Apr 02 2020 - 16:26
Corner Cuttings – Frank McNally on a sobering week from Kilmainham to CaliforniaThu Mar 19 2020 - 19:01
Tippling Point – Frank McNally on similarities between the coronavirus crisis and the Great Plague of 1665Wed Mar 18 2020 - 19:01
Quare de Lune – Frank McNally on half-boiled potatoes, full moons, and Myles na gCopaleen‘And there it was – the white circle in a slice of a half-boiled potato’Thu Mar 12 2020 - 18:30
Megaphone Call – Frank McNally on a curse of public spaces‘Like most journalists, and humans in general, I enjoy a good eavesdrop on occasion’Wed Mar 11 2020 - 18:30
French Connections – Frank McNally on philosophy, the Mountains of Mourne, and women’s artTue Mar 10 2020 - 18:30
Green, White, and Black – Frank McNally on the cross-ethnic coalition that helped turn Boston IrishFri Mar 06 2020 - 18:30
No Tea Party – Frank McNally on Irish involvement in the Boston Massacre, a forerunner to US independenceThu Mar 05 2020 - 00:01
Just Williams – Frank McNally on a tribute to the late Jeremy Williams: artist, architect, and renaissance manTue Mar 03 2020 - 18:30
How Joyce paid the ferrymanFrank McNally on the man who never visited Dublin but landed a key role in UlyssesFri Feb 28 2020 - 00:01
The Felons of Our Land – Frank McNally on the various lives of a republican balladWed Feb 26 2020 - 18:30
Fury Brothers – Frank McNally on the history of boxing, James Joyce, and the curse of cold GuinnessTue Feb 25 2020 - 18:30
Reflections on the Revolution in England – Frank McNally on a 200-year-old plot to establish a republic in LondonThu Feb 20 2020 - 00:01
Over and out – Frank McNally on why Fine Gael is not the party of syntax defaultersTue Feb 18 2020 - 19:01
Irishman's Diary: Dublin tradition of leaving prayers at St Valentine's shrineFrank McNally on messages to patron saint of lovers about more than just romanceThu Feb 13 2020 - 18:01
Come Out Ye Drunken Dads – Frank McNally on the curious reinvention of a spoof rebel songWed Feb 12 2020 - 18:30
‘I support Monaghan Gaelic football team. It involves a lot of suffering’Bittersweet Avondale – Frank McNally on Parnell, cross-country running, and kicking up a storm in Croke ParkTue Feb 11 2020 - 18:30
How the Mity have Risen – Frank McNally on the (short) literary history of cheese mitesFri Feb 07 2020 - 18:01
Dev among the angels – Frank McNally on an unusual memorial in an Ethiopian churchWed Feb 05 2020 - 18:45
Frank McNally dissects the political parties’ manifestos ahead of the General ElectionDocuments are littered with ‘roadmaps’, ‘kick-starts’ and ‘roll-outs’, not to mention terrifying ‘night mayors’Fri Jan 31 2020 - 21:45
An Bord Cremona – Frank McNally on the heroic but forgotten Irish defence of an Italian cityThu Jan 30 2020 - 18:30
Feet of Flames – Frank McNally on how running’s ‘super-shoe’ has conquered the globe (and Raheny)Wed Jan 29 2020 - 18:30
Irishman's Diary: The Irish-educated theatrical genius of William CongreveFrank McNally on English-born writer who found his way into literary circles of LondonThu Jan 23 2020 - 18:15
Pork medallions – Frank McNally on an eccentric episode (or two) in the history of Hiberno-Russian relationsWed Jan 22 2020 - 18:30
A policeman’s lot – Frank McNally recalls a short-lived Dáil party composed entirely of the sons of RIC menTue Jan 21 2020 - 18:01
Revising French – Frank McNally on one of Ireland’s greatest songwriters, who died 100 years ago next weekFri Jan 17 2020 - 18:15
The Full Brontë – Frank McNally on Anne Brontë, having the craic, and the pub with no beer-banFri Jan 17 2020 - 00:01
Ready for reckoning – a film about how Germany (eventually) faced its Nazi pastIrishman's Diary: The People vs Fritz Bauer tells story of thwarted trials post-NurembergThu Jan 16 2020 - 08:20
Making a show of herself – Frank McNally on a new exhibition in Dublin about the Limerick-born writer Kate O’BrienTue Jan 14 2020 - 18:30
Tillage People – Frank McNally on trying to break new ground in JanuaryThe origins of an event known as 'Plough Monday' remain obscureFri Jan 10 2020 - 18:30
A Dunce to the Music of Time – Frank McNally on failing to understand the appeal of a supposed literary classicThu Jan 09 2020 - 18:30
Ballytrain departure – Frank McNally on the polite capture of a Monaghan RIC barracksWed Jan 08 2020 - 18:15
The visions of 2020 that never came to passIt was predicted we would have humans on Mars and a militarised moon by nowSat Jan 04 2020 - 06:00
Suffer Little Childer – Frank McNally on one of the year’s most inauspicious datesSat Dec 28 2019 - 00:01
