Hogan’s Heroes – Frank McNally on an Irish link to one of the 20th century’s greatest soccer teams, the “Mighty Magyars”Fri Jul 19 2019 - 18:01
At Swim-Two-Bobs – Frank McNally on the mysteries of numerology in the work of Bob Dylan and Flann O’BrienAt Swim-Two-Birds pays extended homage to the number 3 with three beginnings, three ends and a similar number of plots in betweenFri Jul 19 2019 - 00:01
Tripping out in Kilkenny – Frank McNally on the people you meet at rock concertsThu Jul 18 2019 - 00:01
Festival of Flann – Frank McNally on a big homecoming for Dublin’s funniest writerWed Jul 10 2019 - 17:45
The flutes, the flutes are calling – Frank McNally on Ireland’s most politicised musical instrumentTue Jul 09 2019 - 17:45
Blunt instrument – the Kilrush evictions of 1888 and the ‘Vandeleur ram’Evictions combined with advent of photojournalism brought ram under spotlightFri Jul 05 2019 - 18:00
Clare set: Frank McNally on two new books with a common threadIrishman's Diary: Musicians bumped into each other on my desk via respective booksThu Jul 04 2019 - 19:00
No dividing wall – Frank McNally on the US neighbouring towns of Derry and LondonderryAn Irishman’s Diary:Thu Jul 04 2019 - 01:00
Streets ahead: When an Irish street was named after a womanAn Irishman’s Diary: Frances Vandeleur was given Frances Street as a wedding presentTue Jul 02 2019 - 18:18
The hunting of the Earl of Rone – and the Irish connectionAn Irishman’s Diary: The festival was banned in 1837 after a man fell to his death during the debauchesFri Jun 28 2019 - 18:02
A twist of faith – Frank McNally on GAA supporters and the ‘Stockdale Paradox’Defining event of Stockdale’s life was the time he spent as a prisoner of war in VietnamThu Jun 27 2019 - 18:01
Medical militia – Frank McNally on the Irish presence at the Franco-Prussian warThe motivation for Irish participation was humanitarian, in large partWed Jun 26 2019 - 18:01
Young man in a hurry (x2): Frank McNally is misled by a ‘dangling modifier’When the start of a sentence loses touch with the endTue Jun 25 2019 - 18:01
General Practitioner – Frank McNally on Orangemen, “Blue Men”, and Americans in war-time ArmaghSat Jun 22 2019 - 00:01
Turning a corner – Frank McNally on the mysteries of one of Dublin’s more unusual civic honoursTue Jun 18 2019 - 18:30
A Nightmare of New York – Frank McNally on the real-life maritime disaster that haunts James Joyce’s UlyssesFri Jun 14 2019 - 18:30
Haloed Fellow Well Met – Frank McNally on GK Chesterton’s claims to sainthoodAn Irishman’s Diary on the English novelist who was a ‘friendly enemy’ to ShawFri Jun 14 2019 - 01:00
Stop All the Clocks – Frank McNally on the influence of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, on 1984Wed Jun 12 2019 - 18:30
Big Brother’s Long Shadow – Frank McNally on Orwell’s 1984 at 70Orwell's 1947 essay 'Towards European Unity' is still relevant todaySat Jun 08 2019 - 00:01
Down but not out in Saint-Lô: Frank McNally on Samuel Beckett and the Irish Red Cross in postwar FranceWed Jun 05 2019 - 18:30
Pillar of Society – Frank McNally on giving the Wellington Monument a much-needed liftTue Jun 04 2019 - 18:01
Arms and the Man – Frank McNally on a museum dedicated to reversing the latter-day neglect of Michael DavittFri May 31 2019 - 17:30
Walt’s Partner – a Limerick man beloved of Walt WhitmanIrishman's Diary: Born 200 years ago, Peter Doyle was poet's lifelong companionFri May 31 2019 - 00:01
Moyna Transgression – Frank McNally on the Seamus Mallon memoirs and hitchhiking in the 1980sThu May 23 2019 - 18:01
Cavorting Buds of May – Frank McNally on a spectacular year for hawthorn blossomsWed May 22 2019 - 18:34
Going the Distance – Frank McNally on performing the Ballina and Breffni Park biathlonTue May 21 2019 - 18:01
Why elegant should never be put to work as a verb in car salesAntimeria sounds like a female relative of a certain age who bosses everyone aroundFri May 17 2019 - 17:43
Living in the dark shadow of the Battle of SolferinoAn Irishman’s Diary: Geneva Convention and Radetsky March are part of its legacyThu May 16 2019 - 18:25
Five Irish soldiers took their own lives after Jadotville siegeSister of 16-year-old solider tells Trinity audience how her brother never fully recoveredWed May 15 2019 - 22:07
How to spell the word craic (or crack?) and what Shakespeare would have saidAn Irishman’s Diary: The bard’s ‘cracker’ was somebody who talked bigWed May 15 2019 - 18:04
A Portaferry Man in a Storm – Frank McNally on the Irish marine salvage specialist who helped save D-DayTue May 14 2019 - 18:01
Holy Orders – Frank McNally on biblical Joe Biden, James Joyce’s Dublin, and pubs with no beerFri May 10 2019 - 19:01
Bad Blood – Frank McNally on the Irish man who nearly stole England’s crown jewelsWed May 08 2019 - 18:01
Coming clean on Drisheen – Frank McNally on the mysterious pleasures of a Cork culinary classicThu May 02 2019 - 18:01
Rolling up the river – Frank McNally on an unlikely partnership between Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò MachiavelliThu May 02 2019 - 00:01
From a vegetarian restaurant in Dublin to the presidency of IndiaAn Irishman’s Diary on a historic Henry Street premisesFri Apr 19 2019 - 18:05
An ‘iconic’ Lord Edward and the resurrection of Thomas StreetAn Irishman’s Diary takes a sideways look at 1798 commemorationsThu Apr 18 2019 - 18:21
Iconic inferno – Frank McNally on this week’s unavoidable word‘It didn’t help that the Notre Dame fire was an event unusually worthy of the word’Wed Apr 17 2019 - 18:00
Sanctuary in Notre Dame and a brush with a second QuasimodoI watched the sad TV pictures as if from the bookstore Shakespeare & Co, on the Seine’s left bankTue Apr 16 2019 - 16:01
Ortolan’s symphony: Frank McNally on Beethoven’s feathered friendThe Brexit Yellowhammer connection and a bird of a different featherSat Apr 13 2019 - 08:01
