Frank McNally

Frank McNally

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

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

Darkness into light: Frank McNally on a history-themed quiz in Joyce’s Nighttown

The pub quiz was just around the corner from World’s End, and one of the more famous corners in world literature

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya: Frank McNally on a piece of Route 66 that is forever Irish

Details of how the town of Shamrock acquired its name are somewhat obscured

Another sighting of the lesser-spotted Dublin fanlight horse

A second surviving specimen stands in the window of a Hendrick Street house in Smithfield

Dead Ringer – Frank McNally on a tragic real-life counterpart of a fictional Joycean character

Eveleen Nicolls drowned while trying to save a girl on the Great Blasket in 1909

Autumn reflection: Frank McNally finds poetic cheer in the October gloom

Rereading Patrick Kavanagh’s poem has brought the sobering thought that it may be October in my life now too

Charge of the Fanlight Brigade: a positive sighting of a threatened Dublin species

The horses are not extinct – but whatever did they mean?

Postcards from the Edge – Frank McNally on Samuel Beckett’s newly published German Diaries

Travelling around Nazi Germany, he wrote presciently about war and found inspiration for Waiting for Godot

Shunning victory: Frank McNally on 146 years of the ‘boycott’

Coventry was the proverbial destination in a popular metaphor that meant the same thing

The Foggy Dew: Frank McNally on the Rising ballad’s confused origins and contested lyrics

Legend has it the song’s genesis can be traced to the first Dáil, but facts prove otherwise

Hecht off – Frank McNally on the testing testimony of a brilliant newspaper man

New York-born journalist and author set bar rather high for those who followed

Shafts of Light: Frank McNally on accidentally joining the golf correspondents’ club

Also: St Brendan’s voyage to the White House, and why AI talks like James Joyce and Flann O’Brien

Strong words: America’s ‘greatest diarist’ whose many dislikes included the Irish

Caustic New Yorker had little time for spiritualists, abolitionists, organ grinders, mosquitoes and snobs, either

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