Cat’s Tale – Frank McNally on introducing Joyce’s diabolical children’s story to a new generation

An Irishman’s Diary

Full Circle: On the 200th birthday of one of Dublin’s most famous rooms

An Irishman’s Diary

Moore’s Maladies – Frank McNally on Myles na gCopaleen and the great Irish Times letters row of 1947

An Irishman’s Diary

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Ireland's original hard Border: Rare footage shows what it was like

British Pathé newsreel from 1924 depicts the ‘much debated Ulster Border’

Ireland 5 Germany 2: When Nazi salutes took over Dalymount Park

In 1936 with the Nazi Party in power, the German team was welcomed to Dublin

The day the Home Rule movement died

A forgotten casualty of Germany’s ‘March Offensive’ was the Irish Parliamentary Party

‘The Queen of the Air’ – An Irishman’s Diary on aviation pioneer Amy Johnson

An ‘absolute nobody’ and Dublin’s most popular politician

Alfie Byrne created a cult of personality that saw him spend 10 years as lord mayor of 1930s Dublin

Msgr Fernando Orcariz Brana named Opus Dei leader

Prelature founded in Spain has 94,000 members, one-third of which are celibate laity

Opus Dei leader Javier Echevarría Rodríguez dies aged 84

The Catholic bishop died in Rome after being hospitalised due to a lung infection

Touching coincidence: An Irishman’s Diary about the possible link between Harry Kernoff and Mr Spock

Memorial to Alfie Byrne in Contarf to be decommissioned

Restoring curved oak bench dedicated to 10-time lord mayor would be ‘very foolish’

Alfie Byrne memorial gets reprieve from Dublin council

Council apologises to artist St Ledger and agrees to discuss restoration