An Irishman's DiaryTHERE ARE certain jobs that, in a mixed gender household, will always devolve to the senior maleWed Feb 03 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI DON’T KNOW if there can ever be such a thing as a “national architecture”, and a nationalist one seems an even odder idea. …Fri Jan 29 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI DON’T KNOW if there can ever be such a thing as a “national architecture”, and a nationalist one seems an even odder idea. …Fri Jan 29 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWE WERE talking here last week about the unfortunate Irish Christian name, Fechin, and the double misfortune that might arise…Thu Jan 28 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWE WERE talking here last week about the unfortunate Irish Christian name, Fechin, and the double misfortune that might arise…Thu Jan 28 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiarySEÁN Ó RIADA is rightly credited with sparking the latter-day revival in Irish traditional music, a subject we’ll come back to…Wed Jan 27 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiarySEÁN Ó RIADA is rightly credited with sparking the latter-day revival in Irish traditional music, a subject we’ll come back to…Wed Jan 27 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiarySOME TIME ago, this column played a small and entirely accidental role in the campaign to honour Ireland’s first aviator, balloonist…Sat Jan 23 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiarySOME TIME ago, this column played a small and entirely accidental role in the campaign to honour Ireland’s first aviator, balloonist…Sat Jan 23 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN 20TH century Moscow, they had the Lubyanka: the infamous KGB headquarters and prison into which many a political dissident…Fri Jan 22 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN 20TH century Moscow, they had the Lubyanka: the infamous KGB headquarters and prison into which many a political dissident…Fri Jan 22 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryAT THE start of 1950, George Orwell’s reputation was rising faster than any English-language writer of his generationThu Jan 21 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryAT THE start of 1950, George Orwell’s reputation was rising faster than any English-language writer of his generationThu Jan 21 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF the features of recent decades here has been a big revival in the use of old Irish namesWed Jan 20 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF the features of recent decades here has been a big revival in the use of old Irish namesWed Jan 20 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT EXCHANGE of letters about the depiction of our national flag on the side of Ryanair aircraft reminded me of a story from…Thu Jan 14 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT EXCHANGE of letters about the depiction of our national flag on the side of Ryanair aircraft reminded me of a story from…Thu Jan 14 2010 - 00:00
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 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
