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 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 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
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
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
