Frank McNally

Frank McNally

Frank McNally is an Irish Times journalist and chief writer of An Irish Diary.

An officer and a Dublin man: Frank McNally on ‘perhaps the most brilliant general in British history’

Garnet Wolseley ‘followed his own maxim that if a young officer wants to do well he should try to get himself killed’

Forever Auvers – Frank McNally on the village where Vincent van Gogh spent his last days

The French village remains a place of pilgrimage for admirers of the artist and his work

A nicer kind of riot – Frank McNally on the Irish cultural storming of Paris  

Shops were braced for looters who never arrived on a weekend of dancing, music and Ulysses-inspired perfumes

Eileen Gray was evicted from a Paris grave. Her ashes remain lost but a new memorial has been created

Plaque paying tribute to Irish designer and architect is unveiled at Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery on 50th anniversary of her death

Frank McNally on Britain’s perennial problem with Irish women’s names

Siobhán no longer seems to be an issue, but attentions have turned to Caoimhe

He came, he sawed, he won the libel case – Frank McNally on a theatrical sensation in Waterford, 100 years ago

This was a case of two halves, not just because it had a ‘magician’ sawing through a glam female aide

Books of Evidence – Frank McNally on a Dublin Garda station’s homage to literature

Step out of the car and admire a wonderful and incongruous celebration

Dead Sails in the Sunset: Frank McNally on the cultural evolution of a Dublin windmill

Liberties tower is getting a second wind with new event space

Sweet and sour: Frank McNally on how Russian brutality brought the Mary cake to Ireland

Henry Spelter, one of the Hungarians who fled his native land 70 years ago, found work at Bewley’s

Free Show: Frank McNally on the liberating power of prison art

Time Well Spent is an exhibition running for a month and including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, textile craftwork and an installation called Reflections From Home

Mr Nobody and a broken vase: Frank McNally on a British Museum accident with historic resonance

In 1845, a young Dubliner visited the museum and committed an act of vandalism that should have earned him permanent infamy

Conversations on a Homecoming: Frank McNally on returning to the Dáil after a 20-year absence

A return to the Dáil press gallery reveals new security arrangements, familiar political rituals and an enduring dress code

Try walking in Patrick Kavanagh’s shoes: one man’s pilgrimage from Inniskeen to Dublin

For Frank Greally, this ‘gratitude walk’ has great historic resonance

Micheál Martin’s feathers ruffled by claims he is ‘playing chicken’ with striking workers

‘Enhanced social dialogue’ offered by Taoiseach more suited to AI summit than public sector unions’ pickets

‘Doubly endangered’ Dublin fanlight horse discovered

The Ringsend property where the figurine stands is up for sale

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