Roses and poppies – The real-life characters behind a famous Irish balladFrank McNally: An Irishman’s DiaryTue Aug 21 2018 - 17:45
On the trail of Orwell’s two down-and-out Irish tramps‘Orwell agreed with the dictum: you are what you eat. And he thought poor Paddy had eaten badly, when at all, for too long’Fri Aug 17 2018 - 17:24
How star-crossed lovers died by execution 170 years agoCamila, the Argentinian-born granddaughter of a Co Clare man, eloped with a Jesuit priestThu Aug 16 2018 - 18:00
Finding a crossword maker in the middle of a crosswordAn Irishman’s Diary: ‘Her mother was Delia Murphy, the singer, her father Thomas J Kiernan, one of our first and most distinguished diplomats’Wed Aug 15 2018 - 18:20
One bright, glorious Salthill day banishes Monaghan’s 30 years of hurtFrank McNally on the trials and tribulations –and rare ecstasy – of being a life-long Farney supporterSun Aug 12 2018 - 06:00
Juggling With Turnips review: funny and perfectly constructed storiesKarl MacDermott’s imagination and instinct display wit and wisdom on human conditionSat Aug 11 2018 - 06:00
An old Irish question: Will we all be rooned with the rain or the drought?An Irishman’s Diary: ‘As the poem progresses, the prayed-for deluge arrives, in Biblical quantities, until that too becomes a problem’Fri Aug 10 2018 - 16:15
A sung and unsung Irish language hero of DonegalAn Irishman’s Diary: James Patrick Craig may be largely forgotten, but his songs live onThu Aug 09 2018 - 16:20
A drop of kirsch, a whiff of quiche and a word with General Humbert’s descendantAn Irishman’s Diary on a weekend in LorraineWed Aug 08 2018 - 18:11
Naming and shaming: OutFlanning Flann when it comes to unreliable namesAn Irishman’s Diary about Arthur McBride and Flann O’Brien errorsTue Aug 07 2018 - 17:19
Frank McNally on the hair-raising history of hurlingAn Irishman’s Diary on why Irish bogs sometimes cough up hairballsFri Aug 03 2018 - 18:30
Saints and Spinners: Frank McNally on a magical mystery tour of eastern FranceAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Aug 02 2018 - 17:56
Frank McNally: My sweaty weekend in the French revolutionary armyAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Aug 01 2018 - 18:30
Frank McNally on a Brexit-flavoured ‘Waiting for Godot’Soft Border, Hard Beckett: An Irishman’s DiaryTue Jul 31 2018 - 17:46
Frank McNally: How the cravat became a global fashion classic, with a bit of help from the FrenchCollared by the Croats – An Irishman’s DiaryFri Jul 13 2018 - 18:30
Frank McNally: The great Irish tradition of slandering Kinnegad and other midlands townsFlat but unflattered – An Irishman’s DiaryThu Jul 12 2018 - 17:30
Frank McNally: The service now arriving on Platform 1 is a pianoAn Irishman’s Diary on the music of trainsWed Jul 11 2018 - 17:30
Frank McNally: The story of Ireland’s German internment camp of the first World WarGuests of the Nation – An Irishman’s DiaryTue Jul 10 2018 - 19:01
Frank McNally: how the heatwave has caused a revival of retro hay-makingAn Irishman’s Diary: Square bales in a round holeFri Jul 06 2018 - 18:55
Frank McNally joins a mad scientist in search of the perfect routeA runner’s road to gloryThu Jul 05 2018 - 18:10
Frank McNally visits Carrick-on-ShannonMagaluf of the Midlands or Irish Taj Mahal?Tue Jul 03 2018 - 17:16
Frank McNally: Goodbye to all that – a fond farewell to the primary school runAn Irishman’s Diary: For the past 15 years I got to walk the kids around the Royal Hospital KilmainhamFri Jun 29 2018 - 16:49
Dodging gurrier seagulls on a bombing mission in the melting, moulting heatAn Irishman’s Diary: Birdies, ducks and the outer plumage of the Ouzel Galley SocietyThu Jun 28 2018 - 20:54
Bingeing with Behan – An Irishman’s Diary about the weekend’s debris by a canalBrendan Behan gazes forever at a blackbird singing beside him. But on Monday, he seemed to be surveying the rubbishThu Jun 28 2018 - 01:00
Ducking responsibility – An Irishman’s Diary about a weekend in FermanaghThe ducks were still wild animals, even after weeks of turning up for breakfast, dinner, and tea, with an ever-increasing air of entitlementWed Jun 27 2018 - 01:02
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
