Odds and (bookmakers’) ends: Frank McNally on horses, war heroes, and the vagaries of fortuneAn Irish Diary on on horses, war heroes, and the vagaries of fortuneThu Feb 14 2019 - 18:15
Hogan’s Last Stand – Frank McNally on the strange disappearance of a former Free State generalAn Irishman's Diary on General Dan Hogan who raised the Tricolour in Dublin Castle after handover from British ruleWed Feb 13 2019 - 18:01
Checkmate Charlie? – Frank McNally on another breakthrough in one of the first World War’s enduring mysteriesFri Feb 08 2019 - 18:29
Frank McNally on the links between Ireland and John Ruskin, who was born 200 years ago todayFri Feb 08 2019 - 00:01
Vax of life – Frank McNally revisits Raftery and the disease that robbed him of his sightWed Feb 06 2019 - 18:10
Sing Street - Frank McNally on the Irish contribution to modern Singapore, which is 200 years old todayTue Feb 05 2019 - 18:50
England Expects, Ireland Expectorates: Frank McNally on our most intense sporting rivalryFri Feb 01 2019 - 18:20
Raftery Remembered – Frank McNally on two contrasting tributes to the Bard of KiltimaghThu Jan 31 2019 - 18:10
Dubbed Over – On the murky origins of Victor Herbert, and a Brexit-foreshadowing naval disasterTue Jan 29 2019 - 18:40
Luas Connections – Frank McNally on the links between James Joyce, Edwin Lutyens, and Brexit red-line issuesFri Jan 25 2019 - 18:25
Come Again Eileen – Frank McNally on an overdue revival of Irish-American composer Victor HerbertThu Jan 24 2019 - 19:10
Automated Yeats – Frank McNally discovers the joys of computerised poetry readingWed Jan 23 2019 - 19:32
Pale moon rising – Frank McNally fails to witness the lunar eclipseThe guilt and Fomo had returned. That light cloud could easily have clearedWed Jan 23 2019 - 12:16
Hung, Thrawn, and Quartered – Frank NcNally on Westminster’s Brexit crisis, as seen through Ulster-ScotsFri Jan 18 2019 - 18:40
Diplomatic tangle in Paris – Ireland’s unofficial presence at the 1919 peace talksFri Jan 18 2019 - 00:01
ID Required: An old cartoon causes the Irishman’s Diarist to question his identityAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Jan 17 2019 - 00:01
Blacking Vocals – Frank McNally on the wisdom of singing bans in pubsAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Jan 15 2019 - 18:20
Shingled Out – Frank McNally on the strange tradition by which certain Irish surnames inherited ‘the cure’An Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 11 2019 - 21:16
Miraculous Medicine – Frank McNally on those stalwarts of Irish life: people with ‘the cure’An Irishman’s DiaryThu Jan 10 2019 - 18:30
Happy New You – Frank McNally on the hopes and dreams of JanuaryAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 09 2019 - 18:40
To the wonderful Siobhan, Carbury, Kildare, IrelandAn Irishman’s Diary on the magic of An Post at ChristmastimeSat Dec 22 2018 - 10:00
When Christmas singers bring tidings of joy – and other emotionsYulenight serenade – Frank McNally on a mixed blessing of Christmases pastThu Dec 20 2018 - 17:17
Of mice and Derrymen: John Steinbeck’s Irish heritageFrank McNally digs deep into the author’s Irish ancestral connectionsWed Dec 19 2018 - 18:30
An Irishman’s Diarist walks in to a bar – and makes new friendsFrank McNally: When he said, ‘You look younger than the picture’, there was only one possible replyTue Dec 18 2018 - 18:19
Cleave Campaign – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh and Cross-Border TurkeysAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Dec 14 2018 - 17:56
Bigging up Baby – Frank McNally on birth announcements, biblical and otherwiseAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 13 2018 - 18:05
Bad-drop mechanism – Frank McNally on a mysterious genetic inheritanceAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 12 2018 - 18:10
Fifty Shades of Sabbath Day – Frank McNally on a half century of RTÉ’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’An Irishman’s DiaryFri Dec 07 2018 - 17:55
A Portrait of the Artist as a PR Man – James Joyce’s controversial campaign to promote an operatic friend, John O’SullivanAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 06 2018 - 18:10
Bones of Contention – Frank McNally on fearless jockeys, Sean O’Brien’s arm, and climbing for sportAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 05 2018 - 18:20
Mom’s the Word – Frank McNally on the Americanisation of the Irish motherAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Dec 04 2018 - 17:55
A long way from Tipperary to an Irish massacreFrank McNally on an Irish feud that escalated in 19th-century CanadaThu Nov 29 2018 - 18:01
A soldier’s song (of sixpence) the real man behind the ballad of Patrick SheehanFrank McNally: ‘As printed a week later, the song fitted Sheehan with a classic Irish backstory of eviction, parents dying in the workhouse, and a life of deprivation that forced him to enlist, and regret it’Wed Nov 28 2018 - 18:01
Statues of Limitation – Frank McNally on the scrap-metal soldier, Brexit, and the Burghers of CalaisAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Nov 27 2018 - 18:30
Sending Up The Republic – Frank McNally on a forgotten satirist of Irish independence, Eimar O’DuffyAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 23 2018 - 19:30
European Communion – How a sixth-century Irish saint helped unite the continentAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Nov 22 2018 - 18:01
The Month that Likes to Say No – Frank McNally on the struggle to love NovemberAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Nov 21 2018 - 18:01
Wild Goose Nest – Frank McNally on a castle-collecting Croatian hero, Count Laval Nugent von WestmeathAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Nov 20 2018 - 18:01
Win over All Blacks reminds us we have dreams and songs to sing‘The Fields of Athenry’ rang out at the Aviva as Ireland neared historic winMon Nov 19 2018 - 06:00
Getting Precious about the Union – Frank McNally on a Brexit buzzwordAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 16 2018 - 17:40
A man for all treasons – Frank McNally on a new book about Ernest Blythe: republican, fascist, and OrangemanAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Nov 15 2018 - 18:10
Pedestrian bridge to finally span Liffey at IslandbridgeLutyens’s design as part of his Irish National War Memorial Gardens has March deadlineWed Nov 14 2018 - 19:13
Dubbed over: Frank McNally on the missing accents in English war commemorationsAn Irishman’s Diary for 'They Shall Not Grow Old' and the missing voicesWed Nov 14 2018 - 17:50
The height of foolishness – Frank McNally on Brexit, newspaper bloopers, and Wile E CoyoteAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 09 2018 - 18:40
Schrödinger’s Cat Melodeon – Frank McNally on music, physics, and Hiberno-EnglishAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Nov 08 2018 - 18:01
Kingdoms for a horse – Frank McNally on Phar Lap and the rules of equine nationalismAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Nov 07 2018 - 18:10
The pipes, the pipes: Frank McNally on smoking, cartooning, and warAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Nov 06 2018 - 17:30
