No doubting Thomas StreetIrishman’s Diary on the comeback of a Dublin thoroughfare steeped – and steepled – in historySat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
A hitchhiker’s guide to humanityAn Irishman’s Diary in which Frank McNally recalls lifts given and receivedFri Aug 09 2013 - 01:00
Of cabbages and king-killersAn Irishman’s Diary on one of Cromwell’s lesser-known legaciesThu Aug 08 2013 - 01:00
From pillar to post colonialismAn Irishman’s Diary about the Irish tradition of iconoclasmWed Aug 07 2013 - 01:01
The law is a little black assAn Irishman’s Diary about Pádraic Ó Conaire and Galway City MuseumSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:01
Grace-ful lady best dressed on Winters’ dayYou would need to have been a martyr to fashion to brave the rain in a frockFri Aug 02 2013 - 01:00
A festival fit for a Prince?An Irishman’s Diary about the Galway Races, then and nowFri Aug 02 2013 - 01:00
Time, gentlemenAn Irishman’s Diary about how a famous public house went semi-privateThu Aug 01 2013 - 01:01
Michael D’s sunny presence banishes rain from BallybritDiminutive President warmly welcomed as he strolls around race meet prior to presenting Galway Plate to fellow Limerick nativeThu Aug 01 2013 - 01:00
Take it to the BridgeAn Irishman’s Diary: One of Mayo’s stranger musical attractionsWed Jul 31 2013 - 01:00
Murray’s death casts a long shadow over racing communityRTÉ broadcaster will be fondly remembered by all for his good humourWed Jul 31 2013 - 01:00
Hidden Cyclone fails to materialise as Ballybrit keeps pulling crowds inIt was business as usual at the Galway Races - save for scarcity of serving Fianna Fáil TDsWed Jul 31 2013 - 01:00
Mixed news from MayoAn Irishman’s Diary about emigration and tourism in Ireland’s far westSat Jul 27 2013 - 09:32
Stony Grey Joyce?An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce’s secret career as a Monaghan footballerFri Jul 26 2013 - 01:00
Moving the goalpostsAn Irishman’s Diary about the benefits of lateral thinkingSat Jul 20 2013 - 01:00
On the horns of a dilemmaAn Irishman’s Diary: Why the San Fermin festival is mad but addictiveThu Jul 18 2013 - 01:00
The festivals go by in twos and threesAn Irishman’s Diary about the crowded literary event calendarSat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
The tomb of the unknown citizenAn Irishman’s Diary on why a certain kind of obscurity is Ireland’s greatest honourFri Jun 28 2013 - 01:00
Singing flames, broken recordsAn Irishman’s Diary about guests of the nation and hostages of historyThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
Mysteries of the heartAn Irishman’s Diary takes refuge in the Fiddler’s Elbow while Rome burnsWed Jun 26 2013 - 01:00
Give a dogma a bad nameAn Irishman’s Diary about Nazism, the Jesuits, and Flann O’BrienSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
The hard life meets La Dolce VitaAn Irishman’s Diary in which Flann O’Brien fans think they’ve died and gone to heavenFri Jun 21 2013 - 09:48
English: the long, short and curlyAn Irishman’s Diary gets to grips with the obscure origins of wordsWed Jun 19 2013 - 17:26
Flann shows his staying power in eternal cityScholars gather in Rome for three-day conference on writings of Brian O’NolanWed Jun 19 2013 - 06:28
A cyclical mysteryAn Irishman’s Diary: How bike racing may the key to Beckett’s most famous characterSat Jun 15 2013 - 00:01
Adjectives that should be bannedAn Irishman’s Diary on why certain words are the enemy of meaningFri Jun 14 2013 - 00:01
The young dog for the smooth roadAn Irishman’s Diary: A humbling experience in MeathWed Jun 12 2013 - 00:01
Keane steals the show as men from Faroe Islands frozen outNot too much here to encourage those romantics who still believe Republic can qualify for World CupSat Jun 08 2013 - 07:10
Journalism of the absurdAn Irishman’s Diary: The Samuel Beckett we’ll never knowSat Jun 08 2013 - 00:01
Moving Swiftly onAn Irishman’s Diary: Dublin celebrates the return of a favourite sonFri Jun 07 2013 - 00:01
A bridge name too farAn Irishman’s Diary: How Flann O’Brien is snubbed in Dublin but at home in RomeThu Jun 06 2013 - 00:01
Forgotten but not goneAn Irishman’s Diary: There may be life in romantic Ireland yet, whatever Yeats thoughtFri May 31 2013 - 00:01
Night of shame when English hooliganism showed its hand at Lansdowne RoadAt the 1995 soccer international, England fans left their mark for all the wrong reasonsWed May 29 2013 - 01:00
Capturing a generalAn Irishman’s Diary: How a Kerry photo agency outmanoeuvred President de Gaulle’s mindersWed May 29 2013 - 00:01
A Carver carvedAn Irishman’s Diary: Remembering a writer who (more than once, perhaps) was cut off in his primeSat May 25 2013 - 01:01
Last word from a lost island?An Irishman’s Diary: The Blasket School of Literature writes another volumeFri May 24 2013 - 01:01
Dancing at the traffic lightsAn Irishman’s Diary: A Dublin suburb goes back to its rootsWed May 22 2013 - 18:23
The paradox of a running legendAn Irishman’s Diary: A demon to compete against, a pleasure to deal withWed May 22 2013 - 01:01
Men and the art of car-wheel maintenanceAn Irishman’s Diary: When in doubt, try kicking the tyreSat May 18 2013 - 01:01
A literary digressionAn Irishman’s Diary In which our hero attempts to experience European Literature Night but loses the plotFri May 17 2013 - 01:01
Elegy written in a city churchyardAn Irishman’s Diary: The last word on a famous lexicographerThu May 16 2013 - 01:01
