Great Irish Wake-Off – Frank McNally on a global reading of James Joyce’s most difficult book

Manhattan Transfer – Frank McNally on the surprise origins of a classic Irish drinking ballad, Finnegan’s Wake

Rising from The Dead? Frank McNally on the fate of No 15 Usher’s Island

If No 15 were to be preserved and extended it could be a win-win

Noted in Passing – An Irishman’s Diary about dead language

Food for thought – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, ‘The Dead’, and Ada Rehan

Dinner time