Slouching all over the world: An Irishman’s Diary about Yeats’s strangest poemThe eminently quotable ‘The Second Coming’Fri May 01 2015 - 11:54
History bites back – An Irishman’s Diary about David Cameron, home rule and teethA strange case of ‘brain fade’Wed Apr 29 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary on when sitting down meant paying upChair-hire in St Stephen’s GreenSat Apr 25 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary about ‘Altman the Saltman’Was this the real-life Leopold Bloom (or one of them)?Fri Apr 24 2015 - 01:01
Diplomatic posting – An Irishman’s Diary about Anthony Trollope, the British ambassador, and the GPOHistoric venueThu Apr 23 2015 - 01:01
What’s new, fussy cat? An Irishman’s Diary on Jerry, the choosy felineYou can lead a cat to water, but you can’t make it drinkWed Apr 22 2015 - 01:01
Skate of the art – An Irishman’s Diary about futuristic transportAutomatic skateboard is the wheel dealSat Apr 18 2015 - 09:57
A warrior for peace – An Irishman’s Diary about Frank Sheehy-SkeffingtonPacifist, feminist and all-round radicalFri Apr 17 2015 - 01:01
Sticky wicket – An Irishman’s Diary on Arnold Bax, 1916 and the ‘googly’English composer was friend of Padraig PearseThu Apr 16 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary on a rebel on roller-skates, Joseph Mary PlunkettFavourite pastime of 1916 leaderWed Apr 15 2015 - 11:17
Fans find their voice on dramatic night at Aviva StadiumDublin 4 proves to be home away from home for Poland but equaliser saves Irish blushesMon Mar 30 2015 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary about war poet Julian Grenfell‘I adore war. It’s like a big picnic without the objectlessness of a picnic.’Sat Mar 28 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary about what happens when Dublin’s rental bikes and the city’s cobbled streets collideRough rideThu Mar 26 2015 - 01:01
The Full Scottish – An Irishman’s Diary about tourist EdinburghThe wonders of Dùn ÈideannWed Mar 25 2015 - 01:01
Campaign supernova as Ireland outshine rivalsAstronomical scores threatened to break the laws of physicsMon Mar 23 2015 - 01:00
Frank McNally: Nerve-shredding drama as Ireland retain Six NationsIreland suffer 80 minutes of the madness that was England vs France before knowing they’d wonSat Mar 21 2015 - 20:27
Frank McNally: Not a cloud in sky for Ireland rugby fansPerfect views of the eclipse the ideal taster as the green army descends on EdinburghSat Mar 21 2015 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary on the Gallipoli truceA brief truce in a time of unrelenting slaughterFri Mar 20 2015 - 14:20
Changed utterly – An Irishman’s Diary about revisionism and 1916Edward Kelly’s change of mindThu Mar 19 2015 - 09:15
Sobriety breaks out in Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day celebrationsGrand marshal Brendan O’Carroll says it’s like being given a knighthoodWed Mar 18 2015 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary about the 10th anniversary of a Dublin shootingFeuds, far betweenFri Mar 13 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary on the Belgian refugees of 1914-18A lingerie legacy of warThu Mar 12 2015 - 09:54
An Irishman’s Diary on Faugheen’s leap of the imaginationJumping churches and horsesWed Mar 11 2015 - 09:35
An Irishman’s Diary about horse-racing and Japanese poetryTo Cheltenham on a full tankaSat Mar 07 2015 - 01:01
O’Donnell Abú – An Irishman’s Diary about an apocryphal apostrophe in the Killiney house disputeClan-do attitudeFri Mar 06 2015 - 01:01
In praise of Kate O’Brien, by Frank McNallyCelebrating Irish women writers: ‘She’s on record somewhere as distrusting humour on principle. But her very seriousness now seems admirable’Thu Mar 05 2015 - 10:00
Strings attached – An Irishman’s Diary on Ireland and the harpA new history of Ireland’s national instrumentThu Mar 05 2015 - 01:01
Ireland’s green machine takes the wheels off the English chariotRecord-equalling 10th successive win put Joe Schmidt’s men in Six Nations driving seatSun Mar 01 2015 - 21:03
English plantation of Dublin shows a few green shootsFirst of 15,000 travelling fans, brimful of confidence, arrive for Sunday rugby kick-offFri Feb 27 2015 - 20:31
Call the Boolean Operator – An Irishman’s Diary on language, logic, and the marriage referendumNow and VennFri Feb 27 2015 - 01:01
Running for dear life – An Irishman’s Diary about Bressie, Michael Harding, and TarmacAn antidote to the springtime bluesThu Feb 26 2015 - 13:09
Pole Star – An Irishman’s Diary about the famine relief work of Pawel StrzeleckiIreland’s debt to Poznan’s native sonWed Feb 25 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary: 40 happy years of Mexico-Ireland relationsA joint history of being on the receiving end of colonial oppression has given the Mexicans and Irish a special empathySat Feb 21 2015 - 01:00
The crack with ‘craic’ – An Irishman’s Diary about the nation’s favourite wordYou see craic these days even in the ‘Spectator’ magazine, that bastion of British conservatismSun Feb 15 2015 - 10:04
Trip down memory lane with Keith Wood an Irish rugby legendFormer international player was the star of the show at the Ireland Funds’ annual rugby lunchSat Feb 14 2015 - 01:00
Cartoons for the Cause – An Irishman’s Diary about the ‘Lepracaun’ magazineThe cartoonist wing of the nationalist movementFri Feb 13 2015 - 01:00
Shady characters, scarlet letters – An Irishman’s Diary about typosEagle-eyed readers true to typeWed Feb 11 2015 - 01:00
Rebel balladeer without a cause – An Irishman’s Diary about John TodhunterLiam Clancy and the haunting ballad ‘Aghadoe’Sat Feb 07 2015 - 01:00
Damnation once again – An Irishman’s Diary about Dante’s InfernoA guided tour of hellFri Feb 06 2015 - 01:00
In search of lost rhyme – An Irishman’s Diary on the song collecting of Tom Munnelly‘Munnelly must have packed away his tape machine that day as a natural historian would a cage with a breeding pair of dodos’Thu Feb 05 2015 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary on emotional inflation in the internet ageMarket sentimentWed Feb 04 2015 - 01:01
The voice of Ireland – An Irishman’s Diary about Margaret Barry and Alan Lomax‘Blessed with the decibel levels of a foghorn, she bypassed the microphones and sang from the front of stage, to general acclaim’Sat Jan 31 2015 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary: Remembering the ‘Wilhem Gustloff’A maritime disaster that dwarfed even the ‘Titanic’Fri Jan 30 2015 - 01:01
Running for your life: An Irishman’s Diary on exercise and longevityThe rejuvenating effects of running may not be merely physicalThu Jan 29 2015 - 01:01
Comma chameleon: An Irishman’s Diary about the sometimes fatal effects of punctuationA comma and Roger Casement’s fateWed Jan 28 2015 - 01:00
Son of Salford, dear to Dublin – An Irishman’s Diary about Ewan MacColl‘Dirty Old Town’ has all but taken out Irish citizenship in the years since it was writtenSat Jan 24 2015 - 01:01
