An Irishman's Diary‘IS BLUE the new black?” asked the headline on a recent blog entry by the BBC’s US correspondent.Wed Jan 13 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryOUTSIDE THE Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the concept of Gross National Happiness has been slow to catch on: partly, no doubt, …Sat Jan 09 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryOUTSIDE THE Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the concept of Gross National Happiness has been slow to catch on: partly, no doubt, …Sat Jan 09 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryBARRING unforeseen events, the Chilean author Isabel Allende will start a new novel later todayFri Jan 08 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryBARRING unforeseen events, the Chilean author Isabel Allende will start a new novel later todayFri Jan 08 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHATEVER ELSE it achieves as the world’s new highest building, the Burj Khalifa has given a big credibility boost to one of the…Thu Jan 07 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHATEVER ELSE it achieves as the world’s new highest building, the Burj Khalifa has given a big credibility boost to one of the…Thu Jan 07 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryFINE GAEL TD Shane McEntee was on radio yesterday complaining about the Government’s tardiness in salting icy roads: apropos …Wed Jan 06 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryFINE GAEL TD Shane McEntee was on radio yesterday complaining about the Government’s tardiness in salting icy roads: apropos …Wed Jan 06 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE JURY is still out on the question of who killed Cock Robin, but I see that a former British environment minister, Michael…Sat Dec 19 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWE WERE discussing here recently Ireland’s theft of the song Dirty Old Town , a crime on which the many fingerprints include …Fri Dec 18 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI’M PUZZLED by a highlighted quotation about Neil Young in our Arts review of the year yesterday, viz: “His O2 show was a powerful…Thu Dec 17 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryJUST AS IT was once the land of saints and scholars, Ireland also used to be able to boast that it had never produced an economist…Wed Dec 16 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryINTRODUCING his book Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola , Gary Dexter juxtaposes two quotations by George Bernard…Sat Dec 12 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT’S A PARADOX, given our international image as the “Fightin’ Irish”, that the citizens of this country are among the most stoical…Fri Dec 11 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE Co Down-born novelist and poet, Amanda McKittrick Ros, once predicted she would be would still be talked about in “1,000 …Wed Dec 09 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryBEARING in mind the success of “craic”, I’m thinking of launching an Hibernicised version of the Icelandic word “ kreppa ”: meaning…Sat Dec 05 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryPROMPTED by alert reader Darach MacDonald, I hereby apologise to emigrants everywhere for my inadvertent use in a column earlier…Fri Dec 04 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryON THIS date in 1947, there opened on Broadway a play that might have been called “The Moth”Thu Dec 03 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE SONG Dirty Old Town and the word “crack” have a lot in commonWed Dec 02 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryMY COLLEAGUE Brian O’Connor is right when he says (Opinion and Analysis, November 20th) that gamesmanship is “the nature of the…Sat Nov 21 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI SPENT the last two nights in a place called “Mama Shelter”, a converted former multi-storey car-park in the gritty 20th arrondissement…Fri Nov 20 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryA WOLFHOUND owner in British Columbia has taken me to a well-known but unpopular destination - namely, to task - for suggesting…Wed Nov 18 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE CONSEQUENCE of the extinction of the Irish wolf, about which we read earlier this week, was the near-extinction of his nemesis…Fri Nov 13 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE OPENING of a large hole in Belfast’s Cromac Street last weekend was a worrying omen, right enough, especially with the peace…Thu Nov 12 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE FOUNDER of Protestantism and the director of Goodfellas might not have many things in commonWed Nov 11 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN A roundabout way, Andy Irvine’s hope (Arts page, November 2nd) that the coming “winter of discontent” would see a revival …Sat Nov 07 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIS IT POSSIBLE that Ennis could be in the process of becoming Ireland’s first “Urination Rage Town”? I only ask because, two …Fri Nov 06 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryMY PREDICTION earlier this year that 300 of Dublin’s free rental bikes would end up “at the bottom of the canal” in the scheme…Thu Nov 05 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT IS ALL of 100 years now since an Irishman living in Italy became so impressed with the potential of a new, fast-growing entertainment…Sat Oct 31 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHEN NOTHING ELSE will persuade my children to For-God’s-Sake GO TO BED, I’m sometimes tempted to invoke an old-fashioned parenting…Fri Oct 30 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryCONFINED TO watching the Dublin Marathon, but with the added interest of someone who nearly entered, I was struck by the high…Wed Oct 28 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's Diary‘DID YOU know that Halloween, which is famous the world over, began at the Hill of Ward in County Meath?” asks an ad in the latest…Sat Oct 24 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN THE summer of 1946, with their country in ruins, the first of 400 German children were evacuated to Ireland for a three-year…Wed Oct 21 2009 - 01:00
Congregation told of 'kind and caring' manFUNERAL MASS: STEPHEN GATELY was “a real gentleman – kind, caring, and very charitable”, Fr Declan Blake told mourners at the…Mon Oct 19 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryBEING THE last-surviving brother of the late great Brian O’Nolan is a mixed blessing, I imagineFri Oct 16 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF THE drawbacks that arises when a well-known person asks another well-known person to write the first well-known person…Thu Oct 15 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryOWNING a 6 per cent share in a greyhound, as I do, is not nearly as glamorous as you might think. Most of the time, anywayWed Oct 14 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN THE win-or-bust mentality of US sport, draws are non-eventsFri Oct 09 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIVY DAY passed almost unnoticed earlier this week, as it generally does these daysThu Oct 08 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI HAVEN’T seen the charge formally levelled against him yet anywhereWed Oct 07 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN THE Great Crash 1929 , his classic account of the events that came to a head this month 80 years ago, JK Galbraith makes an…Sat Oct 03 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE ISSUE IS still in the balance as I write: it could go either way. No, not the Lisbon TreatyThu Oct 01 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT STRANGE rustling noise you heard in the background of the Guinness celebrations, in case you were wondering, was the sound…Wed Sept 30 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT blackly humorous ballad The Night Before Larry Was Stretched is thought to date from the late 18th or early 19th century…Sat Sept 26 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAS THE Dublin Theatre Festival gets into its stride this weekend, I see that the weather forecast is for very windy conditions…Fri Sept 25 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE IRISH TIMES Debates are 50 years old this winter, a milestone that could not be allowed to go uncelebratedThu Sept 24 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryBACK HOME in his native Armagh, circa 1977, Paddy McGarvey found himself on a job-creation taskforce seeking to replace a clothes…Sat Sept 19 2009 - 01:00
