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
Yes, Dublin can be heaven (even now, and even for cyclists)Frank McNally rewrites the classic tune, ‘A Dublin Saunter’, for today’s capital citySat Nov 03 2018 - 05:50
Last poet and chorus: Wilfred Owen's cruelly-timed death, 100 years agoAn Irishman’s Diary: WB Yeats was notoriously unimpressed by Owen’s poetryFri Nov 02 2018 - 19:00
Turbulent priest – the cult of a whiskey-loving clergyman from Co MayoFr Joseph Foy was as much feared for his curses as he was sought for his blessings, which could assure favoured families they would never want for anythingThu Nov 01 2018 - 19:00
How an Irish antiques dealer upstaged locals to open Australia’s greatest bridgeAn Irishman’s Diary: Frank De Groot was dragged off his horse and faced charges including malicious damage to the ribbonWed Oct 31 2018 - 16:37
The 12 days that shook the west: remembering the 1798 rebellionVive la République (de Connacht): Frank McNally joins French tourists on a very special re-enactmentTue Oct 30 2018 - 19:00
Puff-Pieces – Frank McNally on running mantras from literatureAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Oct 26 2018 - 18:55
Stoking the imagination – Frank McNally on how Dublin’s north inner city inspired the creator of DraculaAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 25 2018 - 17:55
The virus that won the war? Frank McNally on an exhibition about the Spanish Flu of 1918An Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 24 2018 - 18:01
Russian to judgment – Frank McNally on Fr Vladimir Pecherin and the Kingstown blasphemy trial of 1855An Irishman’s DiaryTue Oct 23 2018 - 18:25
Talking Turkey – Frank McNally on what the Johnsons could learn from the pastAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Oct 19 2018 - 18:15
Plucking Up Courage – Frank McNally on the ‘White Feather’ campaign of the first World WarAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 18 2018 - 18:32
Pork Scratchings, Stone-Age Style – Frank McNally on the Black Pig’s DykeAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 17 2018 - 18:30
Last Post – Frank McNally on Seumas O’Kelly, writer, journalist, and victim of the 1918 ArmisticeAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Oct 16 2018 - 18:10
Last Call, Gentlemen – GK Chesterton and the recruitment drive of autumn 1918Frank McNally – An Irishman’s DiaryFri Oct 12 2018 - 17:15
My Kingdom for a Verse – Frank McNally on King Richard III, Shakespeare, and Irish bardsAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 11 2018 - 18:40
Jumping Jack – How Samuel Beckett’s favourite actor Jack MacGowran hit the heightsAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 10 2018 - 18:05
Hurrah, Hurrah: Frank McNally on an Irish revival for the composer who brought Johnny home from warAn Irishman’s Diary on Patrick Sarsfield GilmoreTue Oct 09 2018 - 18:20
Bones of contention – Why the remains of James Joyce are still in exileFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 04 2018 - 17:50
Yours Gaelicly – how modern hurling pucked off on the letters page of ‘The Irish Times’An Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 03 2018 - 18:20
I Think, Therefore I Say ‘Amn’t I?’ – Frank McNally on a profound question of Hiberno-EnglishAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Oct 02 2018 - 17:45
Big Tom ‘monumentalised among the people who loved him best’Bronze statue of beloved singer unveiled in Castleblayney at climax of inaugural festivalSun Sept 23 2018 - 21:18
Brothers in arms – the tangled tale of two Dublin siblings during Ireland’s revolutionary yearsFrank McNally – An Irishman’s DiaryFri Sept 21 2018 - 18:25
Second Wind – Frank McNally on a weather-delayed world premiereAn Irishman's Diary on a resurfacing victim of the 'Beast from the East'Thu Sept 20 2018 - 18:15
Classic Rock – Frank McNally on tracing the origins of a famous Irish balladAn Irishman’s Diary on the Rocks of BawnWed Sept 19 2018 - 18:07
The Face of War – How a Finglas man may be the answer to a 100-year-old mysteryFrank McNally – An Irishman’s DiaryTue Sept 18 2018 - 18:05
That’s All, Volks – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of the Volkswagen BeetleAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Sept 14 2018 - 17:50
Charge of the wheat brigade – A Meath farmer’s memories of the Crimean WarFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryThu Sept 13 2018 - 17:58
Countied out – The contrasting fates of English and Irish county boundariesFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryWed Sept 12 2018 - 17:50
A Brexit for the birds – Frank McNally on what ‘Operation Yellowhammer’ really meansAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Sept 07 2018 - 17:15
Knotty problem – On Japanese knotweed and other unwelcome guests of the Irish countrysideFrank McNally – An Irishman’s DiaryWed Sept 05 2018 - 18:22
‘GAA ensures we don’t enjoy life too much by reminding us of our inadequacies’An Irishman’s Diary: We despair about Gaelic football and romanticise hurling. It's a national sportWed Sept 05 2018 - 12:10
Exploring the Border: A frontier marked by myriad crossingsHistory inescapable on sinuous boundary between Monaghan and neighbours in NorthSat Sept 01 2018 - 06:00
Bop till you drop – on Theresa May, Brexit, and the Dancing Plague of 1518An Irishman’s DiaryFri Aug 31 2018 - 18:50
The last throes of summer – Frank McNally ushers in autumn, with no help from BaudelaireAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Aug 30 2018 - 18:01
Moving scenes – Some random reflections on Orwell, Hemingway, and Percy FrenchFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryWed Aug 29 2018 - 18:01
Car-free day – Frank McNally says farewell to a four-wheeled friendAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Aug 28 2018 - 17:50
Papal indulgence – Frank McNally on the social side of the pope’s 1979 visit to GalwayAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Aug 24 2018 - 18:01
Wit’s end – On smartphones, the death of conversation, and Dorothy ParkerFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryThu Aug 23 2018 - 18:00
