I’m Your Number One Flann – An Irishman’s Diary about Flann O’Brien and William SaroyanFri Jun 22 2018 - 00:01
Her father’s daughter – An Irishman’s Diary about the tragic life of Lucia JoyceSat Jun 16 2018 - 00:01
The Stars Align for Leo – An Irishman’s Diary about the world’s greatest footballer and the French revolutionary month of MessidorFri Jun 15 2018 - 00:01
Mere Old Manky Dublin – An Irishman’s Diary on what good weather does to the streets of our capital cityThu Jun 14 2018 - 00:01
Satanic Verses – An Irishman’s Diary about George Bernard Shaw, the Kennedys, and the Garden of EdenWed Jun 13 2018 - 00:01
Euro 88: When everything seemed possibleIn six days in Germany in 1988, Ireland learned we could do a little better as a countrySat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
Night on the Town – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, Monto, and the Magdalene laundriesThu Jun 07 2018 - 00:01
Short circuit – An Irishman’s Diary about diminutive politicians and dangling modifiersWed May 30 2018 - 00:01
Shellfish Politics – An Irishman’s Diary about the diplomatic complications of Lough FoyleSat May 26 2018 - 00:01
Race War – An Irishman’s Diary about running on the borders of Meath and KildareThu May 24 2018 - 00:01
The Empress’s New Clothes – An Irishman’s Diary about Queen Mary and the costs of being a female royalist in 1911Sat May 19 2018 - 00:01
The Quack of Doom – An Irishman’s Diary about WB Yeats, the Sopranos, and wild ducksWed May 16 2018 - 00:01
Cape Crusader – An Irishman’s Diary about the writer WG DowsleyIrish-born, in 1871, William George Dowsley emigrated to Eastern Cape in 1904Sat May 12 2018 - 01:17
An Irishman’s Diary about the hidden gems of DublinMarsh’s Library has the world’s sole surviving sample of at least 387 books and pamphletsFri May 11 2018 - 06:14
Baggotonian rhapsody – An Irishman’s Diary about colourful Dublin residentsThe Austro-Hibernian Count Taaffe was among those who lived in that part of DublinThu May 10 2018 - 06:15
Playing ducks and drakes: An Irishman’s Diary about some unexpected guestsThe way she went involves negotiating a 30-foot escarpment, steep and densely overgrownWed May 09 2018 - 06:00
Ifs and Butties and Old Segotias – An Irishman’s Diary about Dublin words for ‘friend’Fri May 04 2018 - 00:01
Songs of Laughter and Forgetting – An Irishman’s Diary about the emigrant music of Mick MoloneyThu May 03 2018 - 00:01
Moore’s Maladies – An Irishman’s Diary on the short-lived ‘Republic of Connacht’ and the man who was its presidentWed May 02 2018 - 00:01
Scurrilous abuse and comic brilliance: Flann O’BrienReview: Maebh Long had to set herself some rules when tackling the author’s epistolary chaosSat Apr 28 2018 - 06:36
Offensive to the Nth Degree – An Irishman’s Diary about racist language and Flann O’BrienSat Apr 28 2018 - 00:01
Celtic Spotlight – An Irishman’s Diary about the Harvard Archaeological Mission to 1930s IrelandFri Apr 27 2018 - 00:01
At Home and Away with the Fairies – An Irishman’s Diary on the globalisation of a Hiberno-English phraseThu Apr 26 2018 - 00:01
Psychedelic Cyclists – An Irishman’s Diary about Albert Hofmann and Flann O’BrienSat Apr 21 2018 - 00:01
Tears, laughter and music mark Big Tom’s funeralThousands pay last respects to country singer -– and say goodbye to a forgotten eraFri Apr 20 2018 - 07:24
Seconds Away – An Irishman’s Diary about the once-legal remedy of ‘trial by combat’Fri Apr 20 2018 - 00:01
Great leaps forward – An Irishman’s Diary about our supposed national talent for long-jumpingThu Apr 12 2018 - 00:01
Pass Process – An Irishman’s Diary about the Belfast Agreement and shibbolethsWed Apr 11 2018 - 00:01
How New Ireland Assurance has its origins in the revolution of 1916An Irishman’s Diary about one of Dublin’s most distinctive (but now threatened) buildingsSat Mar 31 2018 - 01:00
Mistranslation once again – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce and the Maamtrasna MurdersJames Joyce portrayed Myles Joyce as the personification of a nation that could not explain itself to the worldFri Mar 30 2018 - 11:09
The rise and fall of the canine war on carsAn Irishman’s Diary: ‘I like to think there may be the odd old mutt holding out somewhere, like the Japanese soldier in the jungle’Thu Mar 29 2018 - 01:10
Looking down the barrel: An Irishman’s Diary about Claude DebussyWhile the performers head for the wings with no intention of staying there, I think: ‘Here we go. Offenbach again’Wed Mar 28 2018 - 01:00
Clocks go forward by an hour tonight, ushering in the long evenings of summerFor an experimental period between 1968 and 1971, daylight saving was extended to the whole yearSat Mar 24 2018 - 15:50
Stairway to Carolan – An Irishman’s Diary on the part a blind 18th-century harper played in the ultimate rock anthemSat Mar 24 2018 - 00:01
