An Irishman's DiaryAs older readers and devout Christians among you may know, today is the feast-day of St Anthony of PaduaWed Jun 13 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI see that Bloomsday has become the latest example of event inflation: the socio-economic phenomenon whereby Irish feast days…Tue Jun 12 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI see that one of the new big things on the French music scene is a 26-year-old rapper with the slightly odd name of Diam'sFri Jun 08 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryEight months on, the clear desk policy at The Irish Times shows no sign of relentingThu Jun 07 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWalking down Grafton Street these days, I sometimes feel like that Polish railway worker who has just emerged from a long coma…Wed Jun 06 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhen I wrote in passing a while ago about that most prolific of authors, Anonymous, it never occurred to me to look up the files…Thu May 31 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryOf all the agencies that helped impose British values on Ireland down the centuries, few have had such far-reaching success as…Wed May 30 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe New York Review of Books was fretting recently about the rise of "garbology" in art criticismThu May 17 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryI know I'm not the first person to suggest that the Taoiseach owes part of his success to the fact that he sounds like a character…Wed May 09 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhere California leads, the rest of the world often follows eventuallyThu May 03 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's Diary"Other people have a nationality," wrote Brendan Behan. "The Irish and the Jews have a psychosisWed May 02 2007 - 01:00
Painful design for researchIt looks like something from the sado-masochist range of certain specialist clothing stores. It feels like that tooTue May 01 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt's apt that the month of May has become synonymous in Ireland with election campaignsTue May 01 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryPerhaps you missed it in all the excitement, but the Sunday just past was International Waffle Day (IWD).Wed Mar 28 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryJoe Walsh deserves praise for talking so candidly on Morning Ireland yesterday about the challenges facing former ministers as…Tue Mar 27 2007 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryIn a sobering coincidence, Allied Irish Banks and the bookmaking firm Paddy Power both announced their 2006 results this week…Fri Mar 09 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIf real-estate agents ever get their hands on Christiania, Copenhagen's self-proclaimed "free state", the property ads will make…Thu Mar 08 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt's rather surprising that it took the Abbey 103 years to put on Julius Caesar, if only because of the play's historical relevance…Wed Feb 21 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt cut me to the quick a few months ago when I realised what my son Daniel's first word wasThu Feb 08 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIn Muslim cities, it's the wail of the muezzin calling people to prayFri Jan 26 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe image of actress Drew Barrymore romping naked through a cornfield is of course every Irish tillage farmer's nightmareTue Jan 23 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWe hear a lot about spending figures at Christmas: from bullish predictions beforehand that retailers are on course for an all…Thu Jan 18 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhen Marshall McLuhan predicted the rise of a "global village", wireless microphones and the electric typewriter were the cutting…Wed Jan 17 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryNews that the United Arts Club is celebrating its centenary, welcome as that is, reminds us indirectly of one of the things Ireland…Tue Jan 16 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThere has always been a quasi-religious element to the Apple computer movement, but it seems to have been particularly pronounced…Thu Jan 11 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe Daily Telegraph's fashion correspondent had a yearning tone when she wrote recently about something called "country chic". …Wed Jan 10 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryHands up those of you who ever read the introductions to classic novels? Hmm, just as I thoughtTue Jan 09 2007 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe Wall Street Journal published a survey on European etiquette last week and, not surprisingly, found major differences across…Wed Dec 20 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryOne of the unforeseen consequences of the smoking ban has been a revival in the old Irish custom of standing around in the street…Thu Dec 14 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryA sign of the times, extracted from an ad in the current issue of Dublin's Northside PeopleThu Dec 07 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryProfiling yet another Irish aviation mogul recently, the Financial Times asked: "Is it something in the water?" The writer was…Fri Dec 01 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryImagine the shock of the Irishman's Diary when it read this paper's front-page digest on Monday and saw the following, under …Thu Nov 30 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryMy dentist retired recently, more than a decade after acquiring me as a patientWed Nov 29 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryCan nothing at all be done to halt the spread of golf? There was a while there when I had high hopes for global warming, which…Tue Nov 28 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIf that survey on the time a typical mother spends preparing for Christmas (13 days) is accurate, many women will already have…Fri Nov 24 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI thought the Chief State Pathologist was exaggerating a bit when, in an interview in this paper at the weekend, she expressed…Wed Nov 22 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe latest installation at the Irish Museum of Modern Art looks for all the world like a circusTue Nov 21 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt probably wasn't a factor in persuading Google to set up hereFri Nov 17 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI took the plunge at the supermarket recently and tried out its new scan-as-you-go systemThu Nov 16 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryThe march of science is probably unstoppable and, for the most part, this is a good thingWed Nov 15 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIt was a Proustian moment the other day when I was reading the business supplement and saw a half-page recruitment ad for a firm…Tue Nov 14 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryNext to "How'r'ya?" the most popular question in Irish life must surely be: "Where did the time go?" Of course, this is usually…Thu Nov 02 2006 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI see that the latest dance craze for parents of teenagers to waste time worrying about is something called "freaking"Thu Oct 26 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryWhat has the humble pencil ever done to offend Bertie Ahern? SeriouslyWed Oct 25 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryAny reporter who has ever struggled to hear what is being said in a courtroom will have enjoyed Tuesday's misunderstanding between…Thu Oct 19 2006 - 01:00
An Irishman's DiaryThere is one good thing about the American-led commercialisation of HalloweenWed Oct 18 2006 - 01:00
