Living in the dark shadow of the Battle of SolferinoAn Irishman’s Diary: Geneva Convention and Radetsky March are part of its legacyThu May 16 2019 - 18:25
Five Irish soldiers took their own lives after Jadotville siegeSister of 16-year-old solider tells Trinity audience how her brother never fully recoveredWed May 15 2019 - 22:07
How to spell the word craic (or crack?) and what Shakespeare would have saidAn Irishman’s Diary: The bard’s ‘cracker’ was somebody who talked bigWed May 15 2019 - 18:04
A Portaferry Man in a Storm – Frank McNally on the Irish marine salvage specialist who helped save D-DayTue May 14 2019 - 18:01
Holy Orders – Frank McNally on biblical Joe Biden, James Joyce’s Dublin, and pubs with no beerFri May 10 2019 - 19:01
Bad Blood – Frank McNally on the Irish man who nearly stole England’s crown jewelsWed May 08 2019 - 18:01
Coming clean on Drisheen – Frank McNally on the mysterious pleasures of a Cork culinary classicThu May 02 2019 - 18:01
Rolling up the river – Frank McNally on an unlikely partnership between Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò MachiavelliThu May 02 2019 - 00:01
From a vegetarian restaurant in Dublin to the presidency of IndiaAn Irishman’s Diary on a historic Henry Street premisesFri Apr 19 2019 - 18:05
An ‘iconic’ Lord Edward and the resurrection of Thomas StreetAn Irishman’s Diary takes a sideways look at 1798 commemorationsThu Apr 18 2019 - 18:21
Iconic inferno – Frank McNally on this week’s unavoidable word‘It didn’t help that the Notre Dame fire was an event unusually worthy of the word’Wed Apr 17 2019 - 18:00
Sanctuary in Notre Dame and a brush with a second QuasimodoI watched the sad TV pictures as if from the bookstore Shakespeare & Co, on the Seine’s left bankTue Apr 16 2019 - 16:01
Ortolan’s symphony: Frank McNally on Beethoven’s feathered friendThe Brexit Yellowhammer connection and a bird of a different featherSat Apr 13 2019 - 08:01
Liverpool and Irish ‘football families’ come together for Seán CoxLiverpool and Ireland heroes of yesteryear in united display of solidarity at fundraiserFri Apr 12 2019 - 21:31
Bones of convention – Frank McNally on a dying Japanese customRitual of Senkotsu requires the family to reassemble, disinter the body, and wash the bonesThu Apr 11 2019 - 17:01
The accidental death of an insurrectionist – Frank McNally on Ireland’s other TroublesTue Apr 09 2019 - 17:40
Kerry cows have long precedent – Frank McNally on a 100-year-old legal judgment with far-reaching resultsFri Apr 05 2019 - 19:37
A Letter to the Galwegians – Frank McNally on an old Glenamaddy custom aimed at keeping emigrants in touchThu Apr 04 2019 - 18:40
A night on the files – Michael Collins’s undercover intelligence mission of April 1919Wed Apr 03 2019 - 18:01
The house that neighbourliness built – a heart-warming story from Co GalwayAn Irishman's Diary by Frank McNally on a community’s good deedTue Apr 02 2019 - 18:20
Down the Junction – Frank McNally on three very contrasting figures from the same corner of South TipperaryFri Mar 29 2019 - 18:10
Fiddler on the Hoof – Frank McNally on the making of a Chicago betting tycoon, ‘Big Jim’ O’LearyThu Mar 28 2019 - 17:45
Some Man for a Row? Not Really – Frank McNally on a hero of the uilleann pipes, Leo RowsomeWed Mar 27 2019 - 18:19
Light work, dark matter – Frank McNally on a day spent with Neolithic astronomers and Samuel BeckettTue Mar 26 2019 - 18:01
Home Truths from Abroad – Frank McNally on a letter written in 1950 that still holds true todayFri Mar 22 2019 - 18:50
Sharing of the Green: Frank McNally on the Irish gardeners of 19th-century WashingtonThu Mar 21 2019 - 18:02
Stranger in the night – Frank McNally on the forgotten security guard who caught the Watergate burglarsWed Mar 20 2019 - 18:01
Hanging Washington out to dry – Frank McNally on an enduring myth about the US capitalTue Mar 19 2019 - 17:45
St Patrick’s Day in Chicago: no place for chlorophobic unionistsPicture yourself floating in a boat on a river, rendered bright green by a tangerine dyeMon Mar 18 2019 - 01:06
Media ‘invaders’ treated like returning redcoatsHistorical humiliation leads to tradition of press starvation during St Patrick’s weekSat Mar 16 2019 - 02:00
Trump visit could be as early as June, says VaradkarUS president has previously said he intends to come to Ireland ‘at some point this year’Sat Mar 16 2019 - 00:08
Grumpy Trump bigs up Varadkar ahead of St Patrick’s DayUS president praises Taoiseach’s popularity with céad míle fáilte in Oval OfficeThu Mar 14 2019 - 20:37
Taoiseach tiptoes through minefield without saying anything controversialVaradkar and partner having breakfast with Pence before talking Brexit with TrumpThu Mar 14 2019 - 06:59
No non-Irish need apply – Frank McNally on an era in American boxing when not being Irish was a major handicapFri Mar 08 2019 - 18:40
Bó Selecta – Frank McNally on mythical cows, real-life Border roads, and BrexitThu Mar 07 2019 - 18:10
Foolhardy Buck – Frank McNally on a new book about ‘Ireland’s Greatest Adventurer’, Thomas WhaleyWed Mar 06 2019 - 18:01
Rock of Ages – Frank McNally on an architectural link between Home Rule and Rome RuleTue Mar 05 2019 - 18:01
Deer God – Frank McNally on the dramatic surge in popularity of the girl’s name FiadhFri Mar 01 2019 - 18:10
A hot date in Bologna (and other history lessons) – Frank McNally’s Italian weekend, Part IIWed Feb 27 2019 - 18:05
Lingering on the Lingo – In pursuit of Italian fluency, Frank McNally takes a roundabout route to RomeTue Feb 26 2019 - 18:29
The other marching season: Terminalia, the Roman festival of boundariesFrank McNally: Termons were places of sanctuary too, even for those fleeing justiceFri Feb 22 2019 - 20:44
Ode to a Grecian sojourn – the enduring mystique of islandsAn Irishman’s Diary: Getting a taste for Robinsonade, a 300-year-old literary genreThu Feb 21 2019 - 19:00
Taking Liberties with the dead: where life and death imitate artFrank McNally on some of the literary inspirations of James Joyce’s DublinWed Feb 20 2019 - 17:48
Chuka Ár Lá? Umunna and the Irish connectionAn Irishman’s Diary: How the Milmo name revealed a varied pastTue Feb 19 2019 - 19:00
Feline Fight Club – Frank McNally on what mountain runners (and other potential meals for wildlife) can learn from their petsFri Feb 15 2019 - 17:30
