Frank McNally

Frank McNally

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

Kruger, the Kop, and the whole Shebeen – Frank McNally on Irish-South African linguistic exchange

The original Irish sibín meant “a little mug”

Watching Brief – Frank McNally on the great Irish wake

Before and after

Tower of Song – Frank McNally on the Joycenights Festival, rude hand gestures, and improving Patrick Kavanagh

I somehow found a free corner (not easy in a round tower) among the capacity attendance

Ireland’s archery festival: ‘For a moment, it feels like we are in the Middle Ages’

Archers had their sights set on Co Laois over the weekend for a festival that celebrated tradition and precision

Why runners run — Frank McNally on exercising his inner demons

Much of the reward in running is that the pain, self-inflicted as it is, stops

The enduring fame of Patrick Kavanagh’s doomed affair with Hilda Moriarty

A blissful walk among the bluebells

High society – Frank McNally on taking drugs at the opera

According to the jar, the recommended dosage was “half a gummy”

Seeds of destruction — Frank McNally on cancer, cold war, and causing a nuclear incident at the airport

My first-ever strip search appeared to be imminent

A walk on the wild side: foraging for nature’s treasures in the Wicklow countryside

From meadowsweet and acorns to sloes and elderberries, Frank McNally plunders Mother Nature’s bounty on a sun-baked Sunday during a foraging adventure in the garden of Ireland

Cousins Removed – Frank McNally on a Belfast-born writer’s passage to India

Among other activities in Dublin, he founded (with his wife Gretta) the Irish Vegetarian Society

Earning his Spurs – Frank McNally on an unlikely Wexford hero ‘Tottenham in his Boots’

How the brave actions of an MP for New Ross became a political slogan

Negotiating New Ross – Frank McNally on an argumentative weekend in Wexford

Town is well qualified to host a summer school on history and politics

Old Flames – Frank McNally on a Parisian tribute to Ireland and the tragic saga of Mayo’s Moore Hall

An Irish-themed flaring of the Eternal Flame in Paris

Year of the French (Part 2) – Frank McNally on the colourful career of Fenian general Gustave Paul Cluseret

A rebel with many causes

Boom to Busts – Frank McNally on an Irish-Indian cultural exchange

A tale of two poets