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
Hair Here! – James Joyce and the eager beaverers of 1922Frank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryWed Aug 22 2018 - 18:01
Roses and poppies – The real-life characters behind a famous Irish balladFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryTue Aug 21 2018 - 17:45
On the trail of Orwell’s two down-and-out Irish tramps‘Orwell agreed with the dictum: you are what you eat. And he thought poor Paddy had eaten badly, when at all, for too long’Fri Aug 17 2018 - 17:24
How star-crossed lovers died by execution 170 years agoCamila, the Argentinian-born granddaughter of a Co Clare man, eloped with a Jesuit priestThu Aug 16 2018 - 18:00
Finding a crossword maker in the middle of a crosswordAn Irishman’s Diary: ‘Her mother was Delia Murphy, the singer, her father Thomas J Kiernan, one of our first and most distinguished diplomats’Wed Aug 15 2018 - 18:20
One bright, glorious Salthill day banishes Monaghan’s 30 years of hurtFrank McNally on the trials and tribulations –and rare ecstasy – of being a life-long Farney supporterSun Aug 12 2018 - 06:00
Juggling With Turnips review: funny and perfectly constructed storiesKarl MacDermott’s imagination and instinct display wit and wisdom on human conditionSat Aug 11 2018 - 06:00
An old Irish question: Will we all be rooned with the rain or the drought?An Irishman’s Diary: ‘As the poem progresses, the prayed-for deluge arrives, in Biblical quantities, until that too becomes a problem’Fri Aug 10 2018 - 16:15
A sung and unsung Irish language hero of DonegalAn Irishman’s Diary: James Patrick Craig may be largely forgotten, but his songs live onThu Aug 09 2018 - 16:20
A drop of kirsch, a whiff of quiche and a word with General Humbert’s descendantAn Irishman’s Diary on a weekend in LorraineWed Aug 08 2018 - 18:11
Naming and shaming: OutFlanning Flann when it comes to unreliable namesAn Irishman’s Diary about Arthur McBride and Flann O’Brien errorsTue Aug 07 2018 - 17:19
