All fired up – Frank McNally on the questionable wisdom of Dublin’s logo
Mystical and metaphorical meanings
Out and proud – Frank McNally on being “horrid happy” and other Hiberno-English states of mind
Happy out in Spiddal
Soldiers Are We (Not) – Frank McNally on the beauty of Brian Boydell’s Amhrán na bhFiann
Maybe the music itself is enough
Trial by Drury – Frank McNally on how a small Dublin street became a flashpoint for debate on the city’s future
Many young socialites – undeterred by a lack of street furniture – were sitting on the ground
Blast from the past – Frank McNally on the shock of a 1965 recording of the national anthem
A short drum-roll, followed by about 300 voices mounting an air-and-land assault on the anthem’s opening word
Centre of excellence – Frank McNally on Irish literature’s most famous phrase and the rise of Gallic football
Another cameo for Macintosh Man
Man behind the wire – Frank McNally on the incarceration of Dublin’s Grand Canal
A symphony of JCB engines and jack-hammers
Darkness into light – Frank McNally on a celebratory funeral with a bleak backstory
Harry Gleeson was brought back to his home village 83 years after he was wrongfully executed
Benighted opera – Frank McNally on a rare performance of a 19th-century classic
William Vincent Wallace’s Lurline has a colourful past
Remains of Harry Gleeson, wrongly executed for murder 83 years ago, laid to rest in Tipperary
Department of Justice informed Gleeson’s family last week his remains had been positively identified in a burial area within Mountjoy Prison
Arms and the woman – Frank McNally on Irish-American writer Kathleen Norris’s controversial salute
Saluting the flag
Canadian rhapsody – Frank McNally on a party to celebrate Canada Day
The party was unusual for, among other things, hosting an exhibition in a greenhouse