Earthy Words and Astral Weeks – An Irishman’s Diary about Van Morrison, Gaelic swear words, and St Patrick’s little-known sisterThu Mar 22 2018 - 00:01
Once More, With Ealing – An Irishman’s Diary about a Patrick’s weekend in LondonWed Mar 21 2018 - 00:01
Supporters jubilant after Slamming chariot off the railsThousands who travelled for Six Nations decider witness true ‘I was there’ occasionSat Mar 17 2018 - 20:16
Scummy but proud Ireland fans hoping for St Patrick’s Day victory paradeFrank McNally: Grand slam would make view from Six Nations summit all the sweeterSat Mar 17 2018 - 01:00
Just not cricket – An Irishman’s Diary about why Thomas MacDonagh left Kilkenny in a hurryFri Mar 16 2018 - 00:01
Indian file – An Irishman’s Diary about the Taoiseach, the Choctaws, and my lunch with a Wonderbra modelWed Mar 14 2018 - 00:01
Fighting Talk – An Irishman’s Diary about the languages of Ireland, Scotland, and Mickey SpillaneThe visitors can expect a céad míle fáilte today but next year in Edinburgh, it’ll be a ceud mìle fàilte in returnSat Mar 10 2018 - 06:01
Boldly going where no nun had gone before? An Irishman’s Diary about Renaissance astronomy and the strange tale of Benedetta CarliniThu Mar 08 2018 - 00:01
Frosty Welcome – An Irishman’s Diary about the contrasting experiences of visitors to Hibernia, the Land of WinterSat Mar 03 2018 - 00:01
Do you want ice with that? An Irishman’s Diary about wintry literature and drinkFri Mar 02 2018 - 00:01
Under-covered agents – An Irishman’s Diary about the decline of the male overcoatThu Mar 01 2018 - 00:01
Gold in Them There Placenames – An Irishman’s Diary about Tullybuck, Toponymy, and the Schools Folklore CollectionWed Feb 28 2018 - 00:01
Hors-série sorcery – An Irishman’s Diary about Myles na gCopaleen, Julian Barnes, and limited-edition booksSat Feb 24 2018 - 00:01
Pitch Battles – An Irishman’s Diary about an ancient tune given new life, via a marriage between uilleann pipes and orchestraFri Feb 23 2018 - 00:01
Soft Day in South Galway – An Irishman’s Diary about cross-country running and mudThu Feb 15 2018 - 00:01
Relics of romance – An Irishman’s Diary about convict love tokens and St Valentine’s Dublin exileWed Feb 14 2018 - 00:01
Verbing on the ridiculous – An Irishman’s Diary about bad English, overprotective parents, and the Winter OlympicsSat Feb 10 2018 - 00:01
Presents from the Past – An Irishman’s Diary about mutant verbs and moving statuesFri Feb 09 2018 - 00:01
Lost in translation – An Irishman’s Diary on the hidden depths of Hiberno-EnglishThu Feb 08 2018 - 00:01
Portland stoned – An Irishman’s Diary about the Dubliner who broke one of the world’s most famous vasesWed Feb 07 2018 - 00:01
Joint custody – An Irishman’s Diary about cannabis, civil engineering, and two famous O’Shaughnessys from LimerickSat Feb 03 2018 - 00:01
Old flames – An Irishman’s Diary about Groundhog Day, Candlemas, and James JoyceFri Feb 02 2018 - 00:01
Piper’s lament – An Irishman’s Diary about Johnny Doran and the fall and rise of uilleann pipingThu Feb 01 2018 - 00:01
Spirit Duality – An Irishman’s Diary on the quasi-religious revival of Irish whiskeyFri Jan 19 2018 - 00:01
An Irishman’s Diary: Connecticut’s Great Hunger Museum and the bagel maker who made it possibleThu Jan 18 2018 - 00:01
Germ warfare – An Irishman’s Diary about Maj Robert Gregory and the Spanish fluSat Jan 13 2018 - 00:01
Songs of Freedom – An Irishman’s Diary about the remarkable singing tradition behind Estonia’s centenary of independenceThu Jan 11 2018 - 00:01
It was Christmas Eve, babe – An Irishman’s Diary about a traumatic encounter on the DartWed Jan 10 2018 - 00:01
An Irishman’s Diary in which two cats disappear and another appearsMy neighbours’ cat has started visiting and I can't decide how I feel about itSat Dec 23 2017 - 06:04
Blasket cases – An Irishman’s Diary on the national talent for stoicism in the face of misfortuneLike all Flannoraks, I look forward to An Béal Bocht’s imminent TV debut, via TG4, on Christmas DayFri Dec 22 2017 - 01:00
Guests of the nation – An Irishman’s Diary about two German visitors who had contrasting experiences of Ireland: Ludwig Hopf and Heinrich BöllToday marks the 100th birthday of writer Heinrich BöllThu Dec 21 2017 - 01:00
Not a whole lotta quakin’ goin’ on – An Irishman’s Diary about the Oxford word of the year that nobody anywhere used‘Youthquake’ made its debut in these pages only via a report from the London fashion shows of 1967Wed Dec 20 2017 - 01:00
Tidings of Discomfort and Joy – An Irishman’s Diary about miserable-but-uplifting Christmas songs‘The Pogues’ Fairytale is now 30 years old. And on Christmas Day, the son of Tipperary who wrote it will be twice that age’Sat Dec 16 2017 - 00:01
Four legs good: An Irishman’s Diary about horses, heaven, and Field Marshal Frederick RobertsAs the inscription says, he was for 23 years the ‘charger and faithful friend’ of Lord Roberts of Kandahar, Kipling’s favourite generalFri Dec 15 2017 - 01:01
The Phantom Flann – An Irishman’s Diary about the framing of Brian O’Nolan for a photograph he wasn’t inO’Nolan spent his career pretending to be other people. And sometimes even the other people were not who they were supposed to beThu Dec 14 2017 - 01:01
Union Hijack – An Irishman’s Diary about upside-down flags, the DUP, and the mutiny on the ‘Bounty’Fri Dec 08 2017 - 00:01
