Sanctuary in Notre Dame and a brush with a second QuasimodoI watched the sad TV pictures as if from the bookstore Shakespeare & Co, on the Seine’s left bankTue Apr 16 2019 - 16:01
Ortolan’s symphony: Frank McNally on Beethoven’s feathered friendThe Brexit Yellowhammer connection and a bird of a different featherSat Apr 13 2019 - 08:01
Liverpool and Irish ‘football families’ come together for Seán CoxLiverpool and Ireland heroes of yesteryear in united display of solidarity at fundraiserFri Apr 12 2019 - 21:31
Bones of convention – Frank McNally on a dying Japanese customRitual of Senkotsu requires the family to reassemble, disinter the body, and wash the bonesThu Apr 11 2019 - 17:01
The accidental death of an insurrectionist – Frank McNally on Ireland’s other TroublesTue Apr 09 2019 - 17:40
Kerry cows have long precedent – Frank McNally on a 100-year-old legal judgment with far-reaching resultsFri Apr 05 2019 - 19:37
A Letter to the Galwegians – Frank McNally on an old Glenamaddy custom aimed at keeping emigrants in touchThu Apr 04 2019 - 18:40
A night on the files – Michael Collins’s undercover intelligence mission of April 1919Wed Apr 03 2019 - 18:01
The house that neighbourliness built – a heart-warming story from Co GalwayAn Irishman's Diary by Frank McNally on a community’s good deedTue Apr 02 2019 - 18:20
Down the Junction – Frank McNally on three very contrasting figures from the same corner of South TipperaryFri Mar 29 2019 - 18:10
Fiddler on the Hoof – Frank McNally on the making of a Chicago betting tycoon, ‘Big Jim’ O’LearyThu Mar 28 2019 - 17:45
Some Man for a Row? Not Really – Frank McNally on a hero of the uilleann pipes, Leo RowsomeWed Mar 27 2019 - 18:19
Light work, dark matter – Frank McNally on a day spent with Neolithic astronomers and Samuel BeckettTue Mar 26 2019 - 18:01
Home Truths from Abroad – Frank McNally on a letter written in 1950 that still holds true todayFri Mar 22 2019 - 18:50
Sharing of the Green: Frank McNally on the Irish gardeners of 19th-century WashingtonThu Mar 21 2019 - 18:02
Stranger in the night – Frank McNally on the forgotten security guard who caught the Watergate burglarsWed Mar 20 2019 - 18:01
Hanging Washington out to dry – Frank McNally on an enduring myth about the US capitalTue Mar 19 2019 - 17:45
St Patrick’s Day in Chicago: no place for chlorophobic unionistsPicture yourself floating in a boat on a river, rendered bright green by a tangerine dyeMon Mar 18 2019 - 01:06
Media ‘invaders’ treated like returning redcoatsHistorical humiliation leads to tradition of press starvation during St Patrick’s weekSat Mar 16 2019 - 02:00
Trump visit could be as early as June, says VaradkarUS president has previously said he intends to come to Ireland ‘at some point this year’Sat Mar 16 2019 - 00:08
Grumpy Trump bigs up Varadkar ahead of St Patrick’s DayUS president praises Taoiseach’s popularity with céad míle fáilte in Oval OfficeThu Mar 14 2019 - 20:37
Taoiseach tiptoes through minefield without saying anything controversialVaradkar and partner having breakfast with Pence before talking Brexit with TrumpThu Mar 14 2019 - 06:59
No non-Irish need apply – Frank McNally on an era in American boxing when not being Irish was a major handicapFri Mar 08 2019 - 18:40
Bó Selecta – Frank McNally on mythical cows, real-life Border roads, and BrexitThu Mar 07 2019 - 18:10
Foolhardy Buck – Frank McNally on a new book about ‘Ireland’s Greatest Adventurer’, Thomas WhaleyWed Mar 06 2019 - 18:01
Rock of Ages – Frank McNally on an architectural link between Home Rule and Rome RuleTue Mar 05 2019 - 18:01
Deer God – Frank McNally on the dramatic surge in popularity of the girl’s name FiadhFri Mar 01 2019 - 18:10
A hot date in Bologna (and other history lessons) – Frank McNally’s Italian weekend, Part IIWed Feb 27 2019 - 18:05
Lingering on the Lingo – In pursuit of Italian fluency, Frank McNally takes a roundabout route to RomeTue Feb 26 2019 - 18:29
The other marching season: Terminalia, the Roman festival of boundariesFrank McNally: Termons were places of sanctuary too, even for those fleeing justiceFri Feb 22 2019 - 20:44
Ode to a Grecian sojourn – the enduring mystique of islandsAn Irishman’s Diary: Getting a taste for Robinsonade, a 300-year-old literary genreThu Feb 21 2019 - 19:00
Taking Liberties with the dead: where life and death imitate artFrank McNally on some of the literary inspirations of James Joyce’s DublinWed Feb 20 2019 - 17:48
Chuka Ár Lá? Umunna and the Irish connectionAn Irishman’s Diary: How the Milmo name revealed a varied pastTue Feb 19 2019 - 19:00
Feline Fight Club – Frank McNally on what mountain runners (and other potential meals for wildlife) can learn from their petsFri Feb 15 2019 - 17:30
Odds and (bookmakers’) ends: Frank McNally on horses, war heroes, and the vagaries of fortuneAn Irish Diary on on horses, war heroes, and the vagaries of fortuneThu Feb 14 2019 - 18:15
Hogan’s Last Stand – Frank McNally on the strange disappearance of a former Free State generalAn Irishman's Diary on General Dan Hogan who raised the Tricolour in Dublin Castle after handover from British ruleWed Feb 13 2019 - 18:01
Checkmate Charlie? – Frank McNally on another breakthrough in one of the first World War’s enduring mysteriesFri Feb 08 2019 - 18:29
Frank McNally on the links between Ireland and John Ruskin, who was born 200 years ago todayFri Feb 08 2019 - 00:01
Vax of life – Frank McNally revisits Raftery and the disease that robbed him of his sightWed Feb 06 2019 - 18:10
Sing Street - Frank McNally on the Irish contribution to modern Singapore, which is 200 years old todayTue Feb 05 2019 - 18:50
England Expects, Ireland Expectorates: Frank McNally on our most intense sporting rivalryFri Feb 01 2019 - 18:20
Raftery Remembered – Frank McNally on two contrasting tributes to the Bard of KiltimaghThu Jan 31 2019 - 18:10
Dubbed Over – On the murky origins of Victor Herbert, and a Brexit-foreshadowing naval disasterTue Jan 29 2019 - 18:40
Luas Connections – Frank McNally on the links between James Joyce, Edwin Lutyens, and Brexit red-line issuesFri Jan 25 2019 - 18:25
Come Again Eileen – Frank McNally on an overdue revival of Irish-American composer Victor HerbertThu Jan 24 2019 - 19:10
Automated Yeats – Frank McNally discovers the joys of computerised poetry readingWed Jan 23 2019 - 19:32
Pale moon rising – Frank McNally fails to witness the lunar eclipseThe guilt and Fomo had returned. That light cloud could easily have clearedWed Jan 23 2019 - 12:16
