Ploughs and Stars – Frank McNally on the furloughed furrows of October 2020An Irishman’s DiaryFri Oct 02 2020 - 19:01
Bed and Board – Frank McNally on the old premarital custom of ‘bundling’An Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 01 2020 - 20:01
Haitch Crime – Frank McNally on Ireland’s most divisive letterAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Sept 30 2020 - 19:01
Marginal Gains – Frank McNally on the Book of Kells as a property supplementAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Sept 29 2020 - 19:30
Susie Dent: ‘Jimmy Carr is incredibly rude to me. I took it as a compliment’The Countdown lexicographer on a life-long love of languages, accidental fame and why ‘gobshite’ isn’t as Irish as we thinkSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Sheets to the Wind – Frank McNally on the challenges of outdoor cafésAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Sept 25 2020 - 19:20
Forbidden Fruit – Frank McNally on a tale of youthful decadence and damsonsAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Sept 24 2020 - 19:45
Lynch Law – Frank McNally on the ‘mysterious’ death of a Limerick republican, 100 years ago this weekAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Sept 23 2020 - 19:30
An Irish Airman Foresees a New Era – Frank McNally on the fraught beginnings of civil aviation in IrelandAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Sept 22 2020 - 19:15
Season’s Greetings – Frank McNally on the ups and downs of autumn 2020An Irishman’s DiaryThu Sept 17 2020 - 19:20
Sweet Art Deal – Frank McNally on a surprising Irish contribution to the history of artAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Sept 16 2020 - 19:20
Seoul Kitchen – Frank McNally on the challenges of addressing the world before breakfastAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Sept 15 2020 - 18:15
Do the 'Nordies' and 'Free Staters' even like each other and what does it mean for Irish unity?State’s liberalisation has led to odd realignment in the North between DUP and some CatholicsFri Sept 11 2020 - 01:00
Roman Soldier – Frank McNally on the continuing adventures of a veteran Olympian, Willie DunneAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Sept 10 2020 - 19:35
Donegal Catch – Frank McNally recalls the heroic rescue of the SS StolwijkAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Sept 09 2020 - 19:45
Testing . . . One, Two – Frank McNally on the surprising connections of a sensitive body partAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Sept 08 2020 - 18:45
The Puck Stops Here – Frank McNally on the royal goats, psychedelic sheep, and fearsome midges of KerryAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Sept 04 2020 - 19:30
First Family – Frank McNally on the surprising origins of Ireland’s original soap opera, The Kennedys of CastlerossAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Sept 03 2020 - 19:30
How a Belfast prisoner of war used Irish language to defy Japanese captorsIrishman’s Diary: Belfast GP Frank Murray’s diary used Irish to hide sensitive materialThu Sept 03 2020 - 00:01
Kingdom Come (and Gone) – Frank McNally on holidays in Kerry, the myth of Tír na nÓg, and the demise of Big PhilTue Sept 01 2020 - 20:28
Ladies First – Frank McNally on holy wells, unholy riots, and a landmark in literary lesbianismFri Aug 14 2020 - 19:01
Great Mines – Frank McNally on how a schoolboy war helped launch the ‘father of seismology’, Robert MalletWed Aug 12 2020 - 19:01
A meander from a gloomy Orwellian summer to James Gandon’s graveAn already sad week was made worse by the death of the great American journalist Pete HamillFri Aug 07 2020 - 20:00
Unholy war: Frank McNally on controversial memorials of a Dublin cathedralInside St Patrick’s cathedral lie monuments that if they stood elsewhere might have been consigned to the LiffeyThu Aug 06 2020 - 20:01
Sticky wicket: Frank McNally on Ireland’s love-hate relationship with cricketPerhaps somewhere, in an Irish political heaven, the Derry man is discussing this with another great former leader of nationalismWed Aug 05 2020 - 20:00
Flying pickets: A pandemic-inspired relocation of the great American fenceThis mixture of classic Americana, chalked outlines and a picnic area is a like some Lynch-directed dream-sequence: a bunfight at the RHK corralTue Aug 04 2020 - 20:00
Noises off (and on again): Listening out for the sounds of a new normal‘It seemed like an overreaction to have the WHO intervene, although it being Geneva, I suppose, it could just as easily have been the UN’Fri Jul 31 2020 - 20:00
Blue shirts are out as Richard 'Vladimir' Bruton sets tone for men’s autumn fashionFrank McNally on a fashion for sticks, fear of statues and the craze of politicians taking shirts offThu Jul 30 2020 - 20:00
Brat’s tale: Frank McNally on the curious evolution of the Irish word for ‘flag’How ‘brat’ worked its way down in the worldWed Jul 29 2020 - 20:00
Sole rebel: Frank McNally on the joys of running in bare feetIt’s as if we think of our feet as footwear in themselves, which they areTue Jul 28 2020 - 20:00
Thermidorian Conditions Apply – Frank McNally on the lingering influence of a revolutionary monthFri Jul 24 2020 - 19:45
Red in the Head – Frank McNally on Ireland’s strange love affair with English football clubsThu Jul 23 2020 - 19:30
The Leaving of Limerick – Frank McNally on Robert Graves’s uneasy relationship with his ancestral cityWed Jul 22 2020 - 19:01
Joining the Heard – Frank McNally on how Ireland became an international success story (told by us)Tue Jul 21 2020 - 19:45
Four-Dimensional Green Fields – Frank McNally on unified field theory, de Valera’s Ireland, and a new GAA club in BelfastFri Jul 17 2020 - 19:01
Field of Dreams – Frank McNally on the heady days when Jack Charlton’s Ireland turned up in his back garden (or near enough)Wed Jul 15 2020 - 19:01
Poetic Licence (Provisional) – Frank McNally on the woes of Mary Kenny and Barry CowenTue Jul 14 2020 - 19:30
Jack Charlton’s own grievances endeared him to Irish fans‘He was the sporting father figure we needed - and wore a peaked cap, like our actual fathers’Sat Jul 11 2020 - 18:48
Here Comes the Bridey – Frank McNally on an Irishwoman’s reincarnation in 1950s AmericaFri Jul 10 2020 - 19:20
Dimly lit interior? Frank McNally on the notion that midlanders may be below sea-level, in more ways than oneTue Jul 07 2020 - 18:35
The Full Monte – Frank McNally on tackling a 1,100-page classic of lockdown readingThu Jul 02 2020 - 19:15
Two-Story Building – Frank McNally on a classic of 20th-century Irish architecture, foreshadowed by James JoyceWed Jul 01 2020 - 19:40
Arts and minds – Frank McNally on the uneasy relationship between Irish politics and artTue Jun 30 2020 - 19:15
Begob and Begorrah – Frank McNally on a red-letter week for Hiberno-English swear wordsSat Jun 27 2020 - 09:53
Name and R-Number – Frank McNally on typos, tour guides, unusual baby names, and digging up the Hill of TaraFri Jun 26 2020 - 00:01
