Frank McNally

Frank McNally

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

Magical Mystery Meath

Frank McNally on a weekend in Kells

A Run on the Banks

Saturday Diary

A Hunger for Art

Frank McNally on an extraordinary sculpture garden in West Cork

Hostages to Fortune

Frank McNally on a radical new production of a classic Irish short story

Noteworthy roads - Frank McNally on Dublin’s musical streetscape

Signs of musical heritage everywhere

Bloomsday: Skeleton onesies, period dress and at least 88 full Joycean breakfasts

Gravediggers Bar deputised for Barney Kiernan’s as backdrop for Bloomsday performance of Cyclops episode

Ulysses and me – Frank McNally and his long relationship with Joyce’s greatest book

A diary for Bloomsday

Fair cop? – Frank McNally on the possible real-life model for Joyce’s undertaker

Who was the inspiration for Cornelius ‘Corny’ Kelleher?

Royal flush – Frank McNally on Judy Garland, the Theatre Royal, and Mulligan’s pub

It’s 60 years since Dublin’s Theatre Royal was demolished

Molly coddled – Frank McNally on the real-life backstory of Joyce’s Molly Bloom

For a novelist James Joyce was notoriously reluctant to make stuff up

Our Daily Dread – Frank McNally on the ups and downs of diary writing

Some publications get in guest celebrity diarists - not this column which has been on the go since 1927

Feckless father – Frank McNally on the property and paternity portfolios of John Joyce

James Joyce’s father filled his house with children and with debts

Taking the Mick – Frank McNally on racial epithets, dogs of war, and Kipling’s romanticised Irish

Furore over a certain British army regiment and its nickname

Patrick Kavanagh out of the doldrums and back in the drumlins with revamped centre

Patrick Kavanagh Centre reopens after €1.2m facelift

On the Road to Nowhere – Frank McNally on being too old to read Jack Kerouac

Writer's Hiberno-Breton origins