An Irishman's DiaryIT’S a truism that survivors of the Famine and their descendants dealt with the trauma, for a century or so afterwards, by trying…Thu May 27 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryARE AUDIENCES in this country a soft touch for overseas performers? I don’t just mean the ticket premium, which suggests we’re…Wed May 26 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryON FOOT OF Thursday’s diary hailing Chief O’Neill for the success of his crusade to save Irish traditional music, I received …Sat May 22 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryEVEN BY European standards, the centre of Aachen – where I spent a few hours on Wednesday – is a strange mixture of the ancient…Fri May 21 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI SEE THAT the Co Meath town of Trim now bills itself as Ireland’s satirical capitalWed May 19 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryLIKE THE PAINTER Van Gogh, the Flemish city of Geel, in northern Belgium, is prone to having its name mispronouncedSat May 15 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE MIGRATION from these shores to the Cotswolds every March is all too frequently described as a “pilgrimage”Fri May 14 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE MODERN Greeks have been dominating the headlines of late, but it’s extraordinary how much the ancient ones are still with…Sat May 08 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHERE’S A curious weather pattern that all cyclists will be familiar with: namely that when you’re riding a bike, no matter what…Fri May 07 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF THE nice things about being a middle-aged runner is that, when you enter a race anywhere, you find yourself described …Wed May 05 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryKildare Street, Dublin, April 26th, 2060 The last surviving veterans of Ireland’s “War Agin’ de Pensions” gathered outside Leinster…Sat May 01 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryBETTY RYAN-O’GORMAN from Carlow has written seeking readers’ help on a matter arising from that Kevin Barry farewell letter: …Thu Apr 29 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN THE FILM Gallipoli (1981), Mel Gibson and Mark Lee play two young Australian sprinters who meet on the running circuit in …Sat Apr 24 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryPRIOR TO 2008, I had never suspected any similarity between Leonard Cohen and the No 10 busFri Apr 23 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI STOOD on the edge of a live volcano once, on the Japanese island of KyuhuThu Apr 22 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE ANNUAL Shannon Boat Rally used to be front-page news. Well, it made the front of The Irish Times at least once, anywayWed Apr 21 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryBEFORE KRAKATOA blew its top in 1883, indirectly turning Percy French into a landscape painter (An Irishman’s Diary, yesterday…Sat Apr 17 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryNO DOUBT scientists will tell us there are perfectly rational explanations for the current volcanic activity in IcelandFri Apr 16 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF THE perils of attending sports events is having to put up with obnoxious, loud-mouth opposition fansThu Apr 15 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAT THE JARVEY STAND in glorious Killarney last Sunday, the horses were still shedding their winter coatsWed Apr 14 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAS copyright lawyers will know, today marks an important anniversary in their tradeSat Apr 10 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI SEE FROM his website that Rowan Gillespie, the sculptor responsible for the Treasury Building’s climbing female (An Irishman…Fri Apr 09 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAS A COMMERCIAL enterprise, the Pony Express of 19th-century America belongs in the museum of spectacular failures, alongside…Thu Apr 08 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF the routine reporting jobs in any city newspaper is to ring the police and the fire brigade, periodically, and ask if …Wed Apr 07 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI’M NOT SURE what exactly that dramatic, climbing female figure on the wall of the Treasury Building in Dublin meansSat Apr 03 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryFLICKING channels the other night, I chanced upon a documentary about the Swarbriggs, the Cavan brothers Jimmy and Tommy, who…Thu Apr 01 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryALERT READER Joe Hackett has submitted the photograph, which was taken on his mobile phone in the arrivals area of Dublin Airport…Wed Mar 31 2010 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHEN PERFORMERS speak of “dying on stage”, this is usually just a metaphorSat Mar 27 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI’M BEGINNING to suspect that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), rather than being an attempt to find the elusive Higgs boson – …Fri Mar 26 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryNEVER MIND that he turns 77 next month, Paddy Lynch is just the sort of man this country needs in its hour of crisisThu Mar 25 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHIS TIME last year, readers may recall, I told the story of Pádraig Dall Ó Beirn: “the last of the great Irish harpers”. Blind…Wed Mar 24 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT Catherine Connelly lived to be almost 110 was remarkable in itselfWed Mar 24 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT Catherine Connelly lived to be almost 110 was remarkable in itselfTue Mar 23 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryBEFORE KRAKATOA blew its top in 1883, indirectly turning Percy French into a landscape painter (An Irishman’s Diary, yesterday…Tue Mar 23 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryBEFORE KRAKATOA blew its top in 1883, indirectly turning Percy French into a landscape painter (An Irishman’s Diary, yesterday…Tue Mar 16 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT Catherine Connelly lived to be almost 110 was remarkable in itselfTue Mar 16 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHATEVER the outcome of Gerard McWilliams’s personal injury case against Eircom (court reports, yesterday), the Government should…Sat Mar 13 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI SEE THAT Northern Ireland’s Culture Minister has called the Irishman’s Diary as a witness in his case to have the Gaelicised…Fri Mar 12 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryLIKE ALL our great institutions, the Irish mother has undergone major reform in recent decadesThu Mar 11 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF the most startling things I read in recent times was an interview with Christy Moore last year in the London-based Irish…Wed Mar 10 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI’M NOT SURE how best to mark National Tree Week, which starts tomorrowSat Mar 06 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT’S A PITY WB Yeats is not alive to make sense for us of these confusing timesFri Mar 05 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN the middle of 1952, the great American composer Samuel Barber enjoyed an idyllic holiday in Glenveagh Castle, Co DonegalWed Mar 03 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT IS WELL KNOWN that, when Irish eyes are smiling, “all the world seems bright and gay”Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryLIKE MUCH Romantic poetry, Thomas Moore’s oriental epic, Lalla Rookh , is almost unread todayThu Feb 25 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryMY RECENT confident prediction that Twitter would soon go the way of Second Life and the dodo is not, I admit, looking goodWed Feb 24 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWRITTEN under the cover “Drapier”, one of Dean Swift’s more famous pamphlets was a protest against Wood’s Halfpence: a currency…Sat Feb 20 2010 - 00:00
