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I’m Your Number One Flann – An Irishman’s Diary about Flann O’Brien and William Saroyan

I’m Your Number One Flann – An Irishman’s Diary about Flann O’Brien and William Saroyan

Fri Jun 22 2018 - 00:01
Two-Pot Dictator – An Irishman’s Diary about an eccentric Cork placename

Two-Pot Dictator – An Irishman’s Diary about an eccentric Cork placename

Thu Jun 21 2018 - 00:01
Her father’s daughter – An Irishman’s Diary about the tragic life of Lucia Joyce

Her father’s daughter – An Irishman’s Diary about the tragic life of Lucia Joyce

Sat 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 Messidor

The Stars Align for Leo – An Irishman’s Diary about the world’s greatest footballer and the French revolutionary month of Messidor

Fri Jun 15 2018 - 00:01
Mere Old Manky Dublin – An Irishman’s Diary on what good weather does to the streets of our capital city

Mere Old Manky Dublin – An Irishman’s Diary on what good weather does to the streets of our capital city

Thu Jun 14 2018 - 00:01
Satanic Verses – An Irishman’s Diary about George Bernard Shaw, the Kennedys, and the Garden of Eden

Satanic Verses – An Irishman’s Diary about George Bernard Shaw, the Kennedys, and the Garden of Eden

Wed Jun 13 2018 - 00:01
Euro 88: When everything seemed possible

Euro 88: When everything seemed possible

In six days in Germany in 1988, Ireland learned we could do a little better as a country

Sat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
Four-Year Cycle – An Irishman’s Diary about cars, bikes, and World Cups

Four-Year Cycle – An Irishman’s Diary about cars, bikes, and World Cups

Sat Jun 09 2018 - 00:01
Clothes Horses of the Apocalypse – An Irishman’s Diary about invading moths

Clothes Horses of the Apocalypse – An Irishman’s Diary about invading moths

Fri Jun 08 2018 - 00:01
Night on the Town – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, Monto, and the Magdalene laundries

Night on the Town – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, Monto, and the Magdalene laundries

Thu Jun 07 2018 - 00:01
Marked for life – An Irishman’s Diary about my Leaving Cert English shame

Marked for life – An Irishman’s Diary about my Leaving Cert English shame

Wed Jun 06 2018 - 00:01
Backhanded compliment – An Irishman’s Diary about accents

Backhanded compliment – An Irishman’s Diary about accents

Sat Jun 02 2018 - 00:01
The Pilgrimage’s Progress – An Irishman’s Diary about literary Lough Derg

The Pilgrimage’s Progress – An Irishman’s Diary about literary Lough Derg

Fri Jun 01 2018 - 00:01
The Birdman of Glendalough – An Irishman’s Diary about St Kevin

The Birdman of Glendalough – An Irishman’s Diary about St Kevin

Thu May 31 2018 - 00:01
Short circuit – An Irishman’s Diary about diminutive politicians and dangling modifiers

Short circuit – An Irishman’s Diary about diminutive politicians and dangling modifiers

Wed May 30 2018 - 00:01
Shellfish Politics – An Irishman’s Diary about the diplomatic complications of Lough Foyle

Shellfish Politics – An Irishman’s Diary about the diplomatic complications of Lough Foyle

Sat May 26 2018 - 00:01
Hoor You To Talk? – An Irishman’s Diary about unparliamentary language

Hoor You To Talk? – An Irishman’s Diary about unparliamentary language

Fri May 25 2018 - 00:01
Race War – An Irishman’s Diary about running on the borders of Meath and Kildare

Race War – An Irishman’s Diary about running on the borders of Meath and Kildare

Thu May 24 2018 - 00:01
The sign of peace – An Irishman’s Diary about GAA fans’ post-match handshake

The sign of peace – An Irishman’s Diary about GAA fans’ post-match handshake

Wed May 23 2018 - 00:01
The Empress’s New Clothes – An Irishman’s Diary about Queen Mary and the costs of being a female royalist in 1911

The Empress’s New Clothes – An Irishman’s Diary about Queen Mary and the costs of being a female royalist in 1911

Sat May 19 2018 - 00:01
Royal Threading – An Irishman’s Diary about Carrickmacross Lace

Royal Threading – An Irishman’s Diary about Carrickmacross Lace

Fri May 18 2018 - 00:01
Pubic transport – An Irishman’s Diary on the dangers of taxi ranks

Pubic transport – An Irishman’s Diary on the dangers of taxi ranks

Thu May 17 2018 - 00:01
The Quack of Doom – An Irishman’s Diary about WB Yeats, the Sopranos, and wild ducks

The Quack of Doom – An Irishman’s Diary about WB Yeats, the Sopranos, and wild ducks

Wed May 16 2018 - 00:01
Cape Crusader – An Irishman’s Diary about the writer WG Dowsley

Cape Crusader – An Irishman’s Diary about the writer WG Dowsley

Irish-born, in 1871, William George Dowsley emigrated to Eastern Cape in 1904

Sat May 12 2018 - 01:17
An Irishman’s Diary about the hidden gems of Dublin

An Irishman’s Diary about the hidden gems of Dublin

Marsh’s Library has the world’s sole surviving sample of at least 387 books and pamphlets

Fri May 11 2018 - 06:14
Baggotonian rhapsody – An Irishman’s Diary about colourful Dublin residents

Baggotonian rhapsody – An Irishman’s Diary about colourful Dublin residents

The Austro-Hibernian Count Taaffe was among those who lived in that part of Dublin

Thu May 10 2018 - 06:15
Playing ducks and drakes: An Irishman’s Diary about some unexpected guests

Playing ducks and drakes: An Irishman’s Diary about some unexpected guests

The way she went involves negotiating a 30-foot escarpment, steep and densely overgrown

Wed May 09 2018 - 06:00
Ready, aim, duck – An Irishman’s Diary about misfiring metaphors

Ready, aim, duck – An Irishman’s Diary about misfiring metaphors

Sat May 05 2018 - 00:01
Ifs and Butties and Old Segotias – An Irishman’s Diary about Dublin words for ‘friend’

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 Moloney

Songs of Laughter and Forgetting – An Irishman’s Diary about the emigrant music of Mick Moloney

Thu 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 president

Moore’s Maladies – An Irishman’s Diary on the short-lived ‘Republic of Connacht’ and the man who was its president

Wed May 02 2018 - 00:01
Scurrilous abuse and comic brilliance: Flann O’Brien

Scurrilous abuse and comic brilliance: Flann O’Brien

Review: Maebh Long had to set herself some rules when tackling the author’s epistolary chaos

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 06:36
Offensive to the Nth Degree – An Irishman’s Diary about racist language and Flann O’Brien

Offensive to the Nth Degree – An Irishman’s Diary about racist language and Flann O’Brien

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 00:01
Celtic Spotlight – An Irishman’s Diary about the Harvard Archaeological Mission to 1930s Ireland

Celtic Spotlight – An Irishman’s Diary about the Harvard Archaeological Mission to 1930s Ireland

Fri Apr 27 2018 - 00:01
At Home and Away with the Fairies – An Irishman’s Diary on the globalisation of a Hiberno-English phrase

At Home and Away with the Fairies – An Irishman’s Diary on the globalisation of a Hiberno-English phrase

Thu Apr 26 2018 - 00:01
Psychedelic Cyclists – An Irishman’s Diary about Albert Hofmann and Flann O’Brien

Psychedelic Cyclists – An Irishman’s Diary about Albert Hofmann and Flann O’Brien

Sat Apr 21 2018 - 00:01
Tears, laughter and music mark Big Tom’s funeral

Tears, laughter and music mark Big Tom’s funeral

Thousands pay last respects to country singer -– and say goodbye to a forgotten era

Fri Apr 20 2018 - 07:24
Seconds Away – An Irishman’s Diary about the once-legal remedy of ‘trial by combat’

Seconds Away – An Irishman’s Diary about the once-legal remedy of ‘trial by combat’

Fri Apr 20 2018 - 00:01
Listed suburb – An Irishman’s Diary about the greatness of Kilmainham

Listed suburb – An Irishman’s Diary about the greatness of Kilmainham

Thu Apr 19 2018 - 14:47
An Irishman’s Diary about Noel Hill’s Connemara nightmare

An Irishman’s Diary about Noel Hill’s Connemara nightmare

Sat Apr 14 2018 - 00:01
Making an exhibition of ourselves – An Irishman’s Diary about Slow Art Day

Making an exhibition of ourselves – An Irishman’s Diary about Slow Art Day

Fri Apr 13 2018 - 00:01
Great leaps forward – An Irishman’s Diary about our supposed national talent for long-jumping

Great leaps forward – An Irishman’s Diary about our supposed national talent for long-jumping

Thu Apr 12 2018 - 00:01
Pass Process – An Irishman’s Diary about the Belfast Agreement and shibboleths

Pass Process – An Irishman’s Diary about the Belfast Agreement and shibboleths

Wed Apr 11 2018 - 00:01
How New Ireland Assurance has its origins in the revolution of 1916

How New Ireland Assurance has its origins in the revolution of 1916

An Irishman’s Diary about one of Dublin’s most distinctive (but now threatened) buildings

Sat Mar 31 2018 - 01:00
Mistranslation once again – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce and the Maamtrasna Murders

Mistranslation once again – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce and the Maamtrasna Murders

James Joyce portrayed Myles Joyce as the personification of a nation that could not explain itself to the world

Fri Mar 30 2018 - 11:09
The rise and fall of the canine war on cars

The rise and fall of the canine war on cars

An 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 Debussy

Looking down the barrel: An Irishman’s Diary about Claude Debussy

While 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 summer

Clocks go forward by an hour tonight, ushering in the long evenings of summer

For an experimental period between 1968 and 1971, daylight saving was extended to the whole year

Sat 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 anthem

Stairway to Carolan – An Irishman’s Diary on the part a blind 18th-century harper played in the ultimate rock anthem

Sat Mar 24 2018 - 00:01
London Palling – An Irishman’s Diary on my lifelong struggle to love Britain’s capital city

London Palling – An Irishman’s Diary on my lifelong struggle to love Britain’s capital city

Fri Mar 23 2018 - 00:01
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