Spring Fall – Frank McNally on the dangers of March, the allure of apples, and Pontius Pilate’s fitness regimeAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Mar 05 2021 - 19:01
Forbidding Fruit – Frank McNally on two great but lesser-known Irish exports: St Piran and the Cockagee appleAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Mar 04 2021 - 19:30
Sauce from the goose – Frank McNally on the colourful history of Cackagay ciderAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Mar 02 2021 - 19:01
Word Up – Frank McNally with a further (but not farther) reading from the Stylebook of LeviticusAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Feb 26 2021 - 18:40
Ahead of his time – Frank McNally on the day Eamonn Breslin shocked Croke ParkAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Feb 25 2021 - 18:45
Game, Set, Mismatch – Frank McNally on journalism’s favourite word, Billy Brennan revisited, and a tale of two Zoom eventsAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 24 2021 - 18:40
Slaughtered by the critics – Frank McNally on a 19th-century actor’s fatally bad reviewAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 24 2021 - 00:01
Parting Blast – Frank McNally on the contested epitaph of John KeatsAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Feb 18 2021 - 19:15
London Calling – Frank McNally on the joys of a forgotten educationAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 17 2021 - 19:45
Dancing Queen – Frank McNally on Lola Montez, born 200 years ago todayAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 17 2021 - 00:01
No G-Men – Frank McNally on the politics of English accentsAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Feb 12 2021 - 18:45
Turning an Old Leaf – Frank McNally on the revelations of second-hand booksAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Feb 11 2021 - 19:15
Training session – Frank McNally on the Irish-American cyclist who set a (train) track recordAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 10 2021 - 18:35
Light-ball Moment – Frank McNally on discos, donkeys, and learning LatinAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Feb 09 2021 - 19:30
Flanndemic: Frank McNally on the appeal of Flann O’BrienAnne Enright, Roddy Doyle and John Banville join a celebration of the real-life Brian O’NolanTue Feb 09 2021 - 06:00
To ‘er’ is human – Frank McNally on the scourge of rhotic imperialismAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Feb 05 2021 - 19:01
Hacked Off – Frank McNally on the trail of Hackball, King of the BeggarsAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Feb 04 2021 - 19:01
An Artist Drawn to Ireland – Frank McNally on Cesca Chenevix TrenchAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 03 2021 - 19:15
On the Ball, Off the Wall – Frank McNally on the mysterious origins of a Dublin phraseAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Feb 02 2021 - 19:30
A Window on the Switzers – Frank McNally’s further reflections on a remarkable Irish-AmericanAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 29 2021 - 19:30
Daughters of Destiny – Frank McNally on a forgotten immigrant community, the Irish PalatinesAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 27 2021 - 20:35
Present and Incorrect – Frank McNally on the importance of being “Anseo”An Irishman’s DiaryTue Jan 26 2021 - 19:30
Men of Letters – the extraordinary story of lexicographer and hibernophobe WC MinorAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 22 2021 - 19:01
Holy Joe – Frank McNally on more Biden relatives and lessons for the president from a seventh-century saintAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 20 2021 - 19:01
Mean, Green Grass of Home – Frank McNally on the greatest of all Irish curses‘May the grass grow before your door’Wed Jan 20 2021 - 10:56
In terms of ‘in terms of’ – Frank McNally on a linguistic plagueAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 15 2021 - 19:30
No Irish Need Apply – Frank McNally on the national hang-up about capital punishmentAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Jan 14 2021 - 19:01
So Shoot Me – Frank McNally on the sentence-opener of the century (so far)An Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 13 2021 - 19:01
Height of Folly – Frank McNally on the King of Prussia’s Irish giantsAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Jan 12 2021 - 20:31
Midlands Misadventure – Frank McNally on New York writer Spalding Gray’s ill-fated trip to WestmeathAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 08 2021 - 19:01
Barry to a T – Frank McNally on the surprising authenticity of Thackeray’s Irish classic Barry LyndonAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Jan 07 2021 - 19:15
Crock Around the Clock – Frank McNally on the joys of running Europe’s oldest cross-country raceAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 06 2021 - 19:01
Brendan Voyage(s) – Frank McNally on a tangled tale of memoirsAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Jan 05 2021 - 21:18
Trillable Syllable – Frank McNally on a forgotten heroine of St “Stephenses” DayAn Irishman’s DiarySat Dec 26 2020 - 00:01
‘If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere’: The year Heaney helped us through2020 in review: Seamus Heaney’s line saw him replace Yeats as the most quoted Irish poetFri Dec 25 2020 - 05:00
Down Under and Out – Frank McNally on guilty memories of an Australian ChristmasAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 23 2020 - 19:01
Endgame – Frank McNally on Dublin’s GAA dominance and other portents of the ApocalypseAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Dec 22 2020 - 19:45
Going Native: A Kerryman who became a Native American hero‘Valentine Trant McGillycuddy seems to have been one of the good guys’Fri Dec 18 2020 - 20:00
Christmas waits for a revival? Frank McNally on a controversial traditionIn their classic format, ‘waits’ were small groups, suited to a pandemicThu Dec 17 2020 - 20:16
Dublin as a Cold War hotspot: The Spy who Came in from the northsideAn Irishman’s Diary recalls the shooting of the Spy Who Came in from the Cold, in DublinThu Dec 17 2020 - 15:29
Not all Greek: A pandemic-inspired addiction to language coursesJournalistic ephemera are a running theme in Ulysses, starting with the scene in Leopold Bloom’s outdoor toiletWed Dec 16 2020 - 20:00
“He was clean off his head”– Frank McNally on the murder of Canon Magner in December 1920An Irishman’s DiarySat Dec 12 2020 - 15:06
Ceol Over Beethoven – Frank McNally on the great composer’s lesser-known Irish song collectionAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 10 2020 - 19:15
Incendiary Material – Frank McNally on a belated musical commemoration of the Burning of CorkAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 09 2020 - 19:01
Apropos of Apostrophes – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of a controversial punctuation markAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Dec 04 2020 - 19:30
Step-down facility – Frank McNally on the accidental amphitheatres of DublinAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 03 2020 - 19:15
Thinking Inside the Box – Frank McNally on “humaning” and other forms of corporate tortureAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 02 2020 - 19:30
Moore’s Maladies – Frank McNally on Myles na gCopaleen and the great Irish Times letters row of 1947An Irishman’s DiaryTue Dec 01 2020 - 19:01
