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
An Irishman's DiaryMAD AS the leaders of the French Revolution were, in many respects, they at least had a point in decreeing that the year should…Fri Sept 18 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryNEVER MIND that little skirmish scheduled for Croke Park next Sunday afternoonThu Sept 17 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT APPEARS I owe an abject apology to the many among you who are fans of the US TV show, The WireWed Sept 16 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiarySAMUEL JOHNSON, the great writer and lexicographer who was born 300 years ago this month, was English through and throughSat Sept 12 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAMONG MUNICH’S lesser-known tourist attractions is the Schloss Nymphenburg’s “Gallery of Beauties”: a collection of winsome female…Thu Sept 10 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryALTHOUGH the Electric Picnic was otherwise trouble-free, as usual, I have to report one minor stabbing incident on Sunday night…Wed Sept 09 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAT A LOOSE END in Munich the other day, I did what people are often compelled to do when visiting strange citiesThu Sept 03 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWITH THE centenary of his death now peering over the horizon, it looks as if history has been kinder to Tom Kettle than his own…Wed Sept 02 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN A CHIP SHOP in Killybegs last week, the young one behind the counter asked me if I was on holidays in the areaFri Aug 28 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's Diary‘THAT DAY will mark a precedent,” the New Yorker magazine once quipped, “which brings no news of Rockwell Kent”.Thu Aug 27 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryYOU WON’T get far in Glencolmcille, a wildly beautiful valley in west Donegal, without hearing the name of Father James McDyer…Wed Aug 26 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHEN I received an e-mail yesterday featuring a photograph of the so-called “Nama people”, I thought at first it must be a scoop…Sat Aug 01 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWRITING ABOUT Bastille Day recently, I mentioned the Dublin 4 GAA club Clanna Gael Fontenoy, whose suffix derives from the site…Fri Jul 31 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT’S JUST gone 10.30am at the Mendicity Institution (MI), off Dublin’s south quays, and already the daily dinner operation is…Thu Jul 30 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryMY six per-cent shareholding in a greyhound has held up surprisingly well during the recession so farFri Jul 24 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI CAN’T fundamentally disagree with Bryan Redmond (Letters, July 21st) when, in light of the predicted swine flu pandemic, he…Thu Jul 23 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI SEE that English all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is to quit test cricket after the current series with Australia because, according…Fri Jul 17 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWRITING ABOUT the culture of political protest in France, Lara Marlowe recalled the case of a “middle-aged, middle-class woman…Thu Jul 16 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF the lesser misfortunes of the US newspaper crisis is the loss – real or threatened – of the some of the industry’s greatest…Wed Jul 15 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAN INDIAN Sikh named Ungan Singh was the first recorded victim of a pair of serial killers whose inhuman activities terrorised…Sat Jul 11 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIF EVER there can be a happy funeral, it must be something like the one I attended last weekend in the north Monaghan village…Thu Jul 09 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAT A loose end for something to do last Friday night, I read in The Ticket that Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill were playing Dublin…Wed Jul 08 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryThis being the Fourth of July, its worth reminding ourselves that the White House – America’s great beacon of freedom, lighting…Sat Jul 04 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryPlaying the harp in the cause of peace is of course a naive ideaThu Jul 02 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAt the start of his elegy “On the Death of a Late Famous General”, Jonathan Swift expresses mock horror at the unnamed subjects…Wed Jul 01 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiarySURELY FATE WAS having a private joke at Ireland’s expense when it arranged that the name of our de facto national stadium should…Fri Jun 26 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAS A MAN who does advanced Pilates (I’m level 3 now; there’s talk about level 4), it has taken me a while to come fully out of…Thu Jun 25 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryDID YOUR neighbourhood light a bonfire last night at sunset and watch it until the early hours of this morning? If so, you probably…Wed Jun 24 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryFOR A YEAR or two now, I have been passing Sweny’s Chemist shop several times a week, accompanied by my daughter, who in recent…Fri Jun 19 2009 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryBEFORE HE embarked on a career as the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock made a film version of Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the…Wed Jun 17 2009 - 01:00
