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 DiaryTHAT Catherine Connelly lived to be almost 110 was remarkable in itselfTue Mar 16 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 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
An Irishman's DiaryIT SEEMS to be the fate of Fianna Fáil’s junior government partners to be described in canine termsFri Feb 19 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE TERM “meteoric” is applied to many writers whose genius burns brightly for a short time and then goes outThu Feb 18 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's Diary‘PROPERTY SELLER goes into matchmaking business”: (Headline in The Irish Times Property supplement, February 11th, over a story…Wed Feb 17 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryYOUR STARTER FOR 10. Who is this, writing to his new girlfriend? “I came in at half past elevenFri Feb 12 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryAS WE’VE NOTED here before, there is a purgatorial or limbo-like quality about airports: occupying as they do an intermediate…Thu Feb 11 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT IS A remarkable fact that in 50 years of the Irish Times student debates, only one of the competition’s 140 or so winners, …Wed Feb 10 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI’VE HEARD OF worrying signs and signs of the times, but I think the one pictured qualifies as a bit of bothSat Feb 06 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN ANCIENT ROME there was a group of religious officials called augurs, whose job was to interpret the opinion of the gods on…Fri Feb 05 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT IS ONE of the more beloved clichés of our time that top professional football players, especially in England, are overpaid…Thu Feb 04 2010 - 00:00
