Mysteries of the heartAn Irishman’s Diary takes refuge in the Fiddler’s Elbow while Rome burnsWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
Give a dogma a bad nameAn Irishman’s Diary about Nazism, the Jesuits, and Flann O’BrienSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
The hard life meets La Dolce VitaAn Irishman’s Diary in which Flann O’Brien fans think they’ve died and gone to heavenFri Jun 21 2013 - 09:48
English: the long, short and curlyAn Irishman’s Diary gets to grips with the obscure origins of wordsWed Jun 19 2013 - 17:26
Flann shows his staying power in eternal cityScholars gather in Rome for three-day conference on writings of Brian O’NolanWed Jun 19 2013 - 06:28
A cyclical mysteryAn Irishman’s Diary: How bike racing may the key to Beckett’s most famous characterSat Jun 15 2013 - 00:01
Adjectives that should be bannedAn Irishman’s Diary on why certain words are the enemy of meaningFri Jun 14 2013 - 00:01
The young dog for the smooth roadAn Irishman’s Diary: A humbling experience in MeathWed Jun 12 2013 - 00:01
Keane steals the show as men from Faroe Islands frozen outNot too much here to encourage those romantics who still believe Republic can qualify for World CupSat Jun 08 2013 - 07:10
Journalism of the absurdAn Irishman’s Diary: The Samuel Beckett we’ll never knowSat Jun 08 2013 - 00:01
Moving Swiftly onAn Irishman’s Diary: Dublin celebrates the return of a favourite sonFri Jun 07 2013 - 00:01
A bridge name too farAn Irishman’s Diary: How Flann O’Brien is snubbed in Dublin but at home in RomeThu Jun 06 2013 - 00:01
Forgotten but not goneAn Irishman’s Diary: There may be life in romantic Ireland yet, whatever Yeats thoughtFri May 31 2013 - 00:01
Night of shame when English hooliganism showed its hand at Lansdowne RoadAt the 1995 soccer international, England fans left their mark for all the wrong reasonsWed May 29 2013 - 01:00
Capturing a generalAn Irishman’s Diary: How a Kerry photo agency outmanoeuvred President de Gaulle’s mindersWed May 29 2013 - 00:01
A Carver carvedAn Irishman’s Diary: Remembering a writer who (more than once, perhaps) was cut off in his primeSat May 25 2013 - 01:01
Last word from a lost island?An Irishman’s Diary: The Blasket School of Literature writes another volumeFri May 24 2013 - 01:01
Dancing at the traffic lightsAn Irishman’s Diary: A Dublin suburb goes back to its rootsWed May 22 2013 - 18:23
The paradox of a running legendAn Irishman’s Diary: A demon to compete against, a pleasure to deal withWed May 22 2013 - 01:01
Men and the art of car-wheel maintenanceAn Irishman’s Diary: When in doubt, try kicking the tyreSat May 18 2013 - 01:01
A literary digressionAn Irishman’s Diary In which our hero attempts to experience European Literature Night but loses the plotFri May 17 2013 - 01:01
Elegy written in a city churchyardAn Irishman’s Diary: The last word on a famous lexicographerThu May 16 2013 - 01:01
Alex Ferguson: a winner, a great manager and the biggest bully of his generationI’m not an ABU bigot, but the retiring Manchester United boss personified everything that was wrong with footballSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
Hermits, herbs, and HobbitsAn Irishman’s Diary: On a Clare day, you can see a lotFri May 10 2013 - 01:01
Great run, and the support was pretty good tooAn Irishman’s Diary: Limerick proves a lady for 10,000 race participantsWed May 08 2013 - 06:00
Suffering for artAn Irishman’s Diary: Painful reflections from a night at the concert hallSat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
Aspiration once againAn Irishman’s Diary: Why Northern Ireland needs a H-shaped museumFri Apr 26 2013 - 06:00
Reuse, reboot, recycle: how old Irish computers are starting new lives abroadAn Irishman’s Diary: About 100,000 computers are decommissioned in Ireland every year. One orgnasisation is putting them to good useThu Apr 25 2013 - 06:00
A no-wind situationAn Irishman’s Diary: The politics of Irish weather forecastingWed Apr 24 2013 - 06:00
Dancing for GodotAn Irishman’s Diary: The unlikely friendship of Gene Kelly and Samuel BeckettSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
Meanwhile, in other newsAn Irishman’s Diary: On the lesser-known journalists who died with Francis Sheehy-SkeffingtonFri Apr 19 2013 - 06:00
Race for AfricaAn Irishman’s Diary: How Wesley Korir hopes to benefit Kenya in the long runWed Apr 17 2013 - 06:00
In the court of the Sun King’s sonAn Irishman’s Diary: The fall and rise of a Franco-Irish beautySat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00
Little hills, big hunksThe ups and downs of marketing Monaghan as a tourist destinationFri Apr 12 2013 - 06:00
Fukushima rules and fast-track planningAn Irishman’s Diary: What we could learn from JapanThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
A small church on a big missionAn Irishman’s Diary: St Ethelburga’s rose again from the debris of an IRA bombWed Apr 10 2013 - 06:00
The out-skirts of historyAn Irishman’s Diary: On a forgotten milestone in the liberation of womenSat Apr 06 2013 - 06:00
Raglan Road turn-offCrossing the street to avoid the end of Patrick Kavanagh’s famous love-songThu Apr 04 2013 - 06:00
Running late with the KenyansAn Irishman’s Diary: A stop-over in Nairobi offers an insight into what makes Kenyan athletes tickSat Mar 30 2013 - 06:00
An Irishman’s Diary: How an Offaly priest made himself at home in AfricaUnlikely as it might seem, on the surface, Lusaka is a home from home for Fr Prof Michael KellyThu Mar 28 2013 - 06:00
Austria strike the final chord in chilly thrillerQuestions raised over Trapattoni’s tactics after concession of last-minute equaliserWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:05
In the Name of the (Holy) FatherWhat the new Pope means for the Franks of this worldWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:00
