The crack with ‘craic’ – An Irishman’s Diary about the nation’s favourite wordYou see craic these days even in the ‘Spectator’ magazine, that bastion of British conservatismSun Feb 15 2015 - 10:04
Trip down memory lane with Keith Wood an Irish rugby legendFormer international player was the star of the show at the Ireland Funds’ annual rugby lunchSat Feb 14 2015 - 01:00
Cartoons for the Cause – An Irishman’s Diary about the ‘Lepracaun’ magazineThe cartoonist wing of the nationalist movementFri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Shady characters, scarlet letters – An Irishman’s Diary about typosEagle-eyed readers true to typeWed Feb 11 2015 - 01:00
Rebel balladeer without a cause – An Irishman’s Diary about John TodhunterLiam Clancy and the haunting ballad ‘Aghadoe’Sat Feb 07 2015 - 01:00
Damnation once again – An Irishman’s Diary about Dante’s InfernoA guided tour of hellFri Feb 06 2015 - 01:00
In search of lost rhyme – An Irishman’s Diary on the song collecting of Tom Munnelly‘Munnelly must have packed away his tape machine that day as a natural historian would a cage with a breeding pair of dodos’Thu Feb 05 2015 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary on emotional inflation in the internet ageMarket sentimentWed Feb 04 2015 - 01:01
The voice of Ireland – An Irishman’s Diary about Margaret Barry and Alan Lomax‘Blessed with the decibel levels of a foghorn, she bypassed the microphones and sang from the front of stage, to general acclaim’Sat Jan 31 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary: Remembering the ‘Wilhem Gustloff’A maritime disaster that dwarfed even the ‘Titanic’Fri Jan 30 2015 - 01:01
Running for your life: An Irishman’s Diary on exercise and longevityThe rejuvenating effects of running may not be merely physicalThu Jan 29 2015 - 01:01
Comma chameleon: An Irishman’s Diary about the sometimes fatal effects of punctuationA comma and Roger Casement’s fateWed Jan 28 2015 - 01:00
Son of Salford, dear to Dublin – An Irishman’s Diary about Ewan MacColl‘Dirty Old Town’ has all but taken out Irish citizenship in the years since it was writtenSat Jan 24 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary about the Corkman who translated ‘Mein Kampf’Translation was rushed into print, with ominous timing, in 1939Fri Jan 23 2015 - 01:01
A buzz in the bedroom – An Irishman’s Diary on unexpected guests‘I imagine my grandfather subduing the bees with puffs from his pipe’Thu Jan 22 2015 - 01:01
Man of letters – An Irishman’s Diary about names and initials‘There is a certain cachet to being identifiable by a triple-letter combination, as if you’re an airport code’Wed Jan 21 2015 - 01:01
There’s gold in them there stills – An Irishman’s Diary about the great whiskey revival‘With cameo roles involving Queen Elizabeth I, among others, the whiskey story is told over three storeys of the architectural kind’Sat Jan 17 2015 - 01:01
Good physics, bad chemistry – An Irishman’s Diary about Alan Turing’s Tipperary connections, and the dangers of marrying scientistsThe Borrisokane connectionFri Jan 16 2015 - 01:01
Music on Clinton Street – An Irishman’s Diary about Hillary Clinton’s Dublin shopping trip and the fate of Flann O’Brien’s hat‘She looked at me for at least a half a second. And I like to think we bonded’Thu Jan 15 2015 - 13:24
Laugh? I nearly did. An Irishman’s Diary about John Kennedy Toole’s ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’‘The best things in it are all dialogue’Wed Jan 14 2015 - 17:29
Of rubbers and robbers – An Irishman’s Diary about Victor Noir and James Joyce‘Noir’s grave has been a shrine, although not just to press freedom’Sat Jan 10 2015 - 01:01
A riddle wrapped up in a mystery – An Irishman’s Diary about Alan Turing, the Enigma code, and crossword-solving‘I have had my crossword-solving butt kicked by Keira Knightley, of all people’Fri Jan 09 2015 - 01:01
Repainted Trollope: An Irishman’s Diary about the bicentenary of English-born, but Irish-made, writer Anthony Trollope‘From the moment he set foot in Ireland, as a young postal worker, his fortunes changed’Thu Jan 08 2015 - 01:01
New world braves: An Irishman’s Diary on the plight of old-school journalism in a search engine age‘The key is to work in as many searchable references as possible. As for being funny or mysterious, that way lies internet oblivion’Wed Jan 07 2015 - 01:01
Leopardstown: Race-day card has something for everyoneRoad to Riches is a winner but there are some bad results for bookiesMon Dec 29 2014 - 01:00
Frank McNally: An Irishman’s Diary on the very longmile roadIreland’s expandable distance measurementsSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:01
Frank McNally’s Irish ChristmasIrish Christmas traditions include mispronouncing feast days, thinking the NYPD has a choir, and eating some of the most boring biscuits ever madeWed Dec 24 2014 - 01:00
Planting kisses, kissing plants – An Irishman’s Diary about the strange power of mistletoe‘Its role in kissing aside, the plant also has a rather sinister reputation, stretching back millennia’Sat Dec 20 2014 - 01:01
Tis the season to be envious – An Irishman’s Diary about Protestant Christmas‘A vast arsenal of hymns’Fri Dec 19 2014 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary – Patient lost in translationThe perils of Google TranslateWed Dec 17 2014 - 01:01
Shaking down Shakespeare – the accidental poetry of TwitterAn Irishman’s Diary about the internet’s hidden reserves of iambic pentameterSat Dec 13 2014 - 01:01
The life of O’BrianAn Irishman’s Diary on Patrick O’Brian, aka Richard Russ, who was born 100 years ago todayFri Dec 12 2014 - 01:01
Two-storey with a twistAn Irishman’s Diary about Billy Brennan’s Barn and other literary propertiesThu Dec 11 2014 - 01:01
Frank McNally Goes WildAn Irishman’s Diary about nature and wildlife managementFri Dec 05 2014 - 21:21
Frank McNally on gold-digging, rebellion, and working your way around AustraliaAn Irishman’s Diary about the Eureka StockadeWed Dec 03 2014 - 01:00
Frank McNally on Nokia and naming rightsAn Irishman’s Diary about the Aviva Stadium, and the ups and downs of brandingSat Nov 29 2014 - 01:00
The Four Horsemen – and taking offenceAn Irishman’s Diary: about Messrs Adams, Campbell, Delaney, and Barney DevlinThu Nov 27 2014 - 01:00
Pardon my French as ‘Love/Hate’ is translatedThis will mean trying to find an equivalent for “now get yis the f**k out of me car” in the language of international diplomacyThu Nov 20 2014 - 01:00
Waiting for the non-digital revolutionAn Irishman’s Diary about the prostate examinationWed Nov 19 2014 - 09:55
Dublin in the medium-to-rare oul’ timesAn Irishman’s Diary about the latest work from the Historic Towns Atlas projectSat Nov 15 2014 - 01:00
Frank McNally: The bare-faced truth about beardsOur Diarist details his pitiful struggle to emulate the hirsute magnificence of D'Arcy and KeaneFri Nov 14 2014 - 12:07
The campaign for death reliefAn Irishman’s Diary about big thinking at the Web SummitSat Nov 08 2014 - 01:00
Walking the walkAn Irishman’s Diary on the gulf between management jargon and real lifeFri Nov 07 2014 - 01:00
