Frank McNally

Frank McNally

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

Strained relations – Frank McNally on the usefulness of Irish for keeping track of your cousins

Did the Irish system of accounting for family arise from Brehon Law?

Unchained melody: Nocturnal declamping is part of the soundtrack to city life

Eavesdropping can bring you into a world of fascinating speakers and conversations

Clouds in cuckoo land: Frank McNally on the meteorological ‘scaraveens’ of May

Caught unawares by the sudden cold spells that happen this time of year? Blame the cuckoos

All about the Bass – Frank McNally on a Joycean angle to a million-pound question

No small beer for winner of TV quizshow’s jackpot

Any portent in a storm: Frank McNally on dogfights, doomsday and a tale of two Dundalks

Robert Ross, royal diplomacy and linguistic battles over whiskey

Road to perdition: Frank McNally on the strange, tragic fate of a Kerry historian in 1920s America

A new documentary tells the story of Patrick Foley, who left Dingle in 1909 and died violently in mysterious circumstances

Walpurgis Night: Frank McNally on the superstition of April 30th

The sinister reputation of the date has origins in folklore of northern Europe

Cultural exchange: Frank McNally on the mutual benefits of being an occasional tour guide

I suggested my guests look up Raglan Road on a well-known Swedish institution

The mood in Brussels is poised between worried and smug

Mood in Brussels, as detected during two days of press briefings at least, was poised between worried and smug

Last Post and Chorus: Frank McNally on memories of a long-lost Dublin restaurant

Kaminski snr bought the restaurant some time after he graduated from Trinity College in the 1950s

How a 16th-century English failed monk tried to bridge Anglo-Irish linguistic gulf

You wouldn’t want to mistake squish for huff

The nationalist tobacco shop that hosted James Joyce and Arthur Griffith

Its precious visitor books were rescued decades later from a barrow on Dublin’s quays

Dearly imparted: Frank McNally on Paddy the philanthropist, the BBC banning of Clannad, and Beckett’s womb with a view

Might Paddy Dear be persuaded to throw a few million our way, for the relief of distress in dear old Ireland?

Wilde Romantic Way: Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Oscar’s amorous father

Not all of William Wilde’s exploits are commemorated on a plaque

Frank McNally on a Dublin woman’s attempt to assassinate Mussolini, 100 years ago

It’s hard to say for sure what drove Violet Gibson

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