An Irish Diary

A different tune – Colm Keena on Joan Armatrading

The best medicine – Brian Maye on actor and comedian Harry O’Donovan

Dylan Thomas in Donegal – how the poet sought refuge from London’s “capital punishment” in moorland and hills

Martin Market – Frank McNally on the joys and pains of Martinmas

Treasured son of Timor Leste – David Shanks on the heroic life of Max Stahl

A poet’s last stand – Frank McNally on the death of Dylan Thomas, 70 years ago

Multiple Joyce – Frank McNally on how the author is general, all over Ireland

It was 60 years ago today – Éanna Brophy on the night The Beatles rocked Dublin

An Irish Diary: Ieper, a 100-year-old medieval city

Ogs and Ends - Frank McNally on Michael Collins’s other nickname, the Liffey on film and a Dublin dialect dysfunction

“Want flowers, love?” - Frank McNally on the distinctive sounds of Dublin

The Greatest Escape? Frank McNally on one man’s mission to make a movie about the Catalpa Rescue

All That Glit – Frank McNally on the ancient origins of a slippery word

‘A snoring is heard every night... at the hour at which he passed away’

Shining a light into the often-overlooked work of obituarists

Cliffhanger from Cooneen - Frank McNally on the only Irish ghost that ever emigrated

Balladeer Diary - Frank McNally on the Dubliners, ‘Tonehenge’ and sculptor Edward Delaney

Time waits for Naumann – Frank McNally on a buried tragedy in Joyce’s Ulysses

Fighting Talk – Frank McNally on the perilous pubs and less-than-mean streets of Dublin

Fionnuala Ward: So long autographs, selfies are taking over

‘Europe’s welcome to the Free State’: The story of WB Yeats’s Nobel victory

The harps, the harps – Frank McNally on the continued revival of two once-doomed instruments

Gray Area – Frank McNally on a notorious 19th-century loyalist, ‘Sam Gray of Ballybay’

New Word Order – Frank McNally on why some neologisms take off while others don’t

Cultural memory – Frank McNally on remembering and forgetting the murder of Noel Lemass

Beyond the fringe – John Mulqueen on a long tradition of student housing protests

Prophet of the independence movement – Brian Maye on journalist and poet William Rooney

Garden Home – Frank McNally on the Irish origins of a quintessential American suburb

Lost and found – Frank McNally on literary and alcoholic New York

Manhattan transfer – Frank McNally on a family weekend in New York

Arctic bound – Brian Maye on Wexford-born explorer Robert John Le Mesurier McClure

March of time – Norman Freeman on the centenary of the No 1 Army Band

Why people laugh, gossip and sleep around. It’s a question of evolution

One fork in the grave – Alison Healy on food-inspired graveside tributes

Athenry Fields Forever – Frank McNally on the existentialist threat of Zombie and a possible Irish origin for Liverpool’s Anfield

Venice Vigil – Frank McNally on an epic Californian reading of Finnegans Wake

Borstal Boy Meets Butcher Boy (with Blindboy in between) – Frank McNally on the Kavanagh Weekend in Inniskeen

Cecil Rhodes – hero or villain?

Rock bottom: Think you’ve got troubles? You haven’t been hit by a meteorite

A history of Ireland in 100 goodbyes

Rome and Away – Frank McNally on the fashion for Irish writers in wartime Italy

Brief Encounter – Frank McNally on sharing the pain of total strangers

Motley Loughcrew – Frank McNally joins the crowds celebrating the autumn equinox in Meath

Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet who made every syllable count

The Names List and Ireland’s Memorial Records of the first World War

Fall into line – Frank McNally on St Matthew, Loughcrew, and the autumn equinox

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

Watching Brief – Frank McNally on the great Irish wake

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

Drawn to song – Joe Breen on Paul Simon and artist Charlie Mackesy’s Seven Psalms

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BP Fallon on his photo of Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor ‘having a vibe’ in 1988

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Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes ‘can expect custodial sentence’ after conviction for violent disorder

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Aircraft and €8m in drugs seized at airport as gardaí target west Dublin gang

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Anxious wait for Kyle Hayes and Limerick following conviction

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‘Shane had many acquaintances, but just a few friends . . . we knew who was who’

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