Diplomatic tangle in Paris – Ireland’s unofficial presence at the 1919 peace talksFri Jan 18 2019 - 00:01
ID Required: An old cartoon causes the Irishman’s Diarist to question his identityAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Jan 17 2019 - 00:01
Blacking Vocals – Frank McNally on the wisdom of singing bans in pubsAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Jan 15 2019 - 18:20
Shingled Out – Frank McNally on the strange tradition by which certain Irish surnames inherited ‘the cure’An Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 11 2019 - 21:16
Miraculous Medicine – Frank McNally on those stalwarts of Irish life: people with ‘the cure’An Irishman’s DiaryThu Jan 10 2019 - 18:30
Happy New You – Frank McNally on the hopes and dreams of JanuaryAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 09 2019 - 18:40
To the wonderful Siobhan, Carbury, Kildare, IrelandAn Irishman’s Diary on the magic of An Post at ChristmastimeSat Dec 22 2018 - 10:00
When Christmas singers bring tidings of joy – and other emotionsYulenight serenade – Frank McNally on a mixed blessing of Christmases pastThu Dec 20 2018 - 17:17
Of mice and Derrymen: John Steinbeck’s Irish heritageFrank McNally digs deep into the author’s Irish ancestral connectionsWed Dec 19 2018 - 18:30
An Irishman’s Diarist walks in to a bar – and makes new friendsFrank McNally: When he said, ‘You look younger than the picture’, there was only one possible replyTue Dec 18 2018 - 18:19
Cleave Campaign – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh and Cross-Border TurkeysAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Dec 14 2018 - 17:56
Bigging up Baby – Frank McNally on birth announcements, biblical and otherwiseAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 13 2018 - 18:05
Bad-drop mechanism – Frank McNally on a mysterious genetic inheritanceAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 12 2018 - 18:10
Fifty Shades of Sabbath Day – Frank McNally on a half century of RTÉ’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’An Irishman’s DiaryFri Dec 07 2018 - 17:55
A Portrait of the Artist as a PR Man – James Joyce’s controversial campaign to promote an operatic friend, John O’SullivanAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 06 2018 - 18:10
Bones of Contention – Frank McNally on fearless jockeys, Sean O’Brien’s arm, and climbing for sportAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 05 2018 - 18:20
Mom’s the Word – Frank McNally on the Americanisation of the Irish motherAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Dec 04 2018 - 17:55
A long way from Tipperary to an Irish massacreFrank McNally on an Irish feud that escalated in 19th-century CanadaThu Nov 29 2018 - 18:01
A soldier’s song (of sixpence) the real man behind the ballad of Patrick SheehanFrank McNally: ‘As printed a week later, the song fitted Sheehan with a classic Irish backstory of eviction, parents dying in the workhouse, and a life of deprivation that forced him to enlist, and regret it’Wed Nov 28 2018 - 18:01
Statues of Limitation – Frank McNally on the scrap-metal soldier, Brexit, and the Burghers of CalaisAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Nov 27 2018 - 18:30
Sending Up The Republic – Frank McNally on a forgotten satirist of Irish independence, Eimar O’DuffyAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 23 2018 - 19:30
European Communion – How a sixth-century Irish saint helped unite the continentAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Nov 22 2018 - 18:01
The Month that Likes to Say No – Frank McNally on the struggle to love NovemberAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Nov 21 2018 - 18:01
Wild Goose Nest – Frank McNally on a castle-collecting Croatian hero, Count Laval Nugent von WestmeathAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Nov 20 2018 - 18:01
Win over All Blacks reminds us we have dreams and songs to sing‘The Fields of Athenry’ rang out at the Aviva as Ireland neared historic winMon Nov 19 2018 - 06:00
Getting Precious about the Union – Frank McNally on a Brexit buzzwordAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 16 2018 - 17:40
A man for all treasons – Frank McNally on a new book about Ernest Blythe: republican, fascist, and OrangemanAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Nov 15 2018 - 18:10
Pedestrian bridge to finally span Liffey at IslandbridgeLutyens’s design as part of his Irish National War Memorial Gardens has March deadlineWed Nov 14 2018 - 19:13
Dubbed over: Frank McNally on the missing accents in English war commemorationsAn Irishman’s Diary for 'They Shall Not Grow Old' and the missing voicesWed Nov 14 2018 - 17:50
The height of foolishness – Frank McNally on Brexit, newspaper bloopers, and Wile E CoyoteAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 09 2018 - 18:40
Schrödinger’s Cat Melodeon – Frank McNally on music, physics, and Hiberno-EnglishAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Nov 08 2018 - 18:01
Kingdoms for a horse – Frank McNally on Phar Lap and the rules of equine nationalismAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Nov 07 2018 - 18:10
The pipes, the pipes: Frank McNally on smoking, cartooning, and warAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Nov 06 2018 - 17:30
Yes, Dublin can be heaven (even now, and even for cyclists)Frank McNally rewrites the classic tune, ‘A Dublin Saunter’, for today’s capital citySat Nov 03 2018 - 05:50
Last poet and chorus: Wilfred Owen's cruelly-timed death, 100 years agoAn Irishman’s Diary: WB Yeats was notoriously unimpressed by Owen’s poetryFri Nov 02 2018 - 19:00
Turbulent priest – the cult of a whiskey-loving clergyman from Co MayoFr Joseph Foy was as much feared for his curses as he was sought for his blessings, which could assure favoured families they would never want for anythingThu Nov 01 2018 - 19:00
How an Irish antiques dealer upstaged locals to open Australia’s greatest bridgeAn Irishman’s Diary: Frank De Groot was dragged off his horse and faced charges including malicious damage to the ribbonWed Oct 31 2018 - 16:37
The 12 days that shook the west: remembering the 1798 rebellionVive la République (de Connacht): Frank McNally joins French tourists on a very special re-enactmentTue Oct 30 2018 - 19:00
Puff-Pieces – Frank McNally on running mantras from literatureAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Oct 26 2018 - 18:55
Stoking the imagination – Frank McNally on how Dublin’s north inner city inspired the creator of DraculaAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 25 2018 - 17:55
The virus that won the war? Frank McNally on an exhibition about the Spanish Flu of 1918An Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 24 2018 - 18:01
Russian to judgment – Frank McNally on Fr Vladimir Pecherin and the Kingstown blasphemy trial of 1855An Irishman’s DiaryTue Oct 23 2018 - 18:25
Talking Turkey – Frank McNally on what the Johnsons could learn from the pastAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Oct 19 2018 - 18:15
Plucking Up Courage – Frank McNally on the ‘White Feather’ campaign of the first World WarAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 18 2018 - 18:32
Pork Scratchings, Stone-Age Style – Frank McNally on the Black Pig’s DykeAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 17 2018 - 18:30
Last Post – Frank McNally on Seumas O’Kelly, writer, journalist, and victim of the 1918 ArmisticeAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Oct 16 2018 - 18:10
Last Call, Gentlemen – GK Chesterton and the recruitment drive of autumn 1918Frank McNally – An Irishman’s DiaryFri Oct 12 2018 - 17:15
My Kingdom for a Verse – Frank McNally on King Richard III, Shakespeare, and Irish bardsAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Oct 11 2018 - 18:40
Jumping Jack – How Samuel Beckett’s favourite actor Jack MacGowran hit the heightsAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Oct 10 2018 - 18:05
