Japes with the Japanese: An Irishman’s Diary about sake and SwiftAn Irish DiaryFri Nov 04 2016 - 01:00
Touching coincidence: An Irishman’s Diary about the possible link between Harry Kernoff and Mr SpockThu Nov 03 2016 - 01:00
Frank McNally: The Dublin Marathon in 26.2 paragraphsA winding but pacey narrative featuring Joe Dolan, Oscar Wilde and the Eiffel TowerSun Oct 30 2016 - 19:36
The unkindest cuts: An Irishman’s Diary about Keats, Raleigh and book reviewersSat Oct 29 2016 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary about German first World War ace Oswald Boelcke, and Leslie PorterFri Oct 28 2016 - 01:00
Bums on Seats – An Irishman’s Diary about the problem of substandard audiencesSat Oct 22 2016 - 01:01
Cypriot Saints and Sinners – An Irishman’s Diary about St Hilarion and Lawrence DurrellFri Oct 21 2016 - 01:01
Wilde Oats – An Irishman’s Diary about William Rowan Hamilton’s early flirtations with poetryThu Oct 20 2016 - 00:01
Algebra Cabra – An Irishman’s Diary about William Rowan Hamilton’s Eureka momentWed Oct 19 2016 - 01:01
Splitting Hairs and Infinitives – Another reading from Frank McNally’s Stylebook of LeviticusSat Oct 15 2016 - 01:01
Why ‘The Second Coming’ has never gone away – An Irishman’s Diary on yet another triumphant year for Yeats’s most quotable poemWed Oct 12 2016 - 01:01
Fifty years a TD for Enda Kenny? It’s no more unlikely than a Mayo All-IrelandTaoiseach’s decision to run again might ease daughter Aoibhinn’s political inheritanceWed Oct 12 2016 - 01:00
Of Tims, Taigs, and Tenement-Scots – An Irishman’s Diary on the changing face of insultsThu Oct 06 2016 - 01:01
October Surmise – An Irishman’s Diary about one of the year’s most poetic monthsSat Oct 01 2016 - 00:01
When our level best is not enough – An Irishman’s Diary about why Americans can’t understand drawsFri Sept 30 2016 - 01:01
Harrow-on-the-Hill – An Irishman’s Diary about Patrick Kavanagh’s (mostly) natural highsSat Sept 24 2016 - 01:01
Homer Sweet Homer – An Irishman’s Diary about George Chapman, Keats, and Myles na gCopaleenFri Sept 23 2016 - 00:01
Come Out With Your Heads Up – An Irishman’s Diary about the Siege of JadotvilleWed Sept 21 2016 - 00:01
In Search of Lost Time – An Irishman’s Diary about the French republican calendarSat Sept 17 2016 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary about the polio epidemic that delayed the All-Ireland finals of 1956Fri Sept 16 2016 - 01:01
The Name is Bond: Oliver Bond – An Irishman’s Diary on one of Dublin’s best-known flat complexes, now 80 years oldThu Sept 15 2016 - 01:01
Yours, Sincerely and Otherwise – An Irishman’s Diary on the collected letters of Flann O’BrienSat Sept 10 2016 - 01:01
Tunnel Visions – An Irishman’s Diary about a road trip through the Cork and Kerry mountainsThu Sept 08 2016 - 01:01
Censors and sensibility – An Irishman’s Diary about ‘The Irish Times’ in wartimeWed Sept 07 2016 - 01:01
Hills and Duhallows – An Irishman’s Diary about a road-trip in Limerick and CorkSat Sept 03 2016 - 01:01
The Forgotten Diaspora – An Irishman’s Diary about the greening of Latin AmericaFri Sept 02 2016 - 01:01
A furry friend’s furlough – An Irishman’s Diary about the search for Pete BriquetteWed Aug 31 2016 - 01:01
Green Doors, Green Fools – An Irishman’s Diary on the literary history of Ely Place in DublinFri Aug 12 2016 - 01:01
Cross Country - An Irishman’s Diary about our national talent for anger managementSat Aug 06 2016 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary about how the Georgian doorways of Dublin became so colourfulFri Aug 05 2016 - 01:01
Big Jim and Black Tom - An Irishman’s Diary about an attack on America in 1916Jim Larkin was in New York when a massive munitions explosion caused huge damageSat Jul 30 2016 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary about about a republican newsagents in revolution-era CorkThu Jul 28 2016 - 01:01
Fatal Shooting - An Irishman’s Diary about the perils of interviewing Ireland’s oldest citizensWed Jul 27 2016 - 01:09
Graves condition – An Irishman’s Diary about a premature obituary from 1916Frank McNally on poet Robert GravesSat Jul 23 2016 - 01:01
