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Between 160 to 200 soldiers of the Waffen SS entered the quiet village of Oradour-sur-Glane 75 years ago this month The women and children were rounded up and locked into the church while the men were machine-gunned down. The church was set alight.

An Irishman’s Diary on the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

Michael Foley
June 18, 2019

Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh. National Portrait Gallery, London

‘Here lie the bones of Castlereagh’ – An Irishman’s Diary on a political colossus

Brian Maye
June 17, 2019

Recovering a body from the General Slocum excursion steamer disaster in New York

A Nightmare of New York – Frank McNally on the real-life maritime disaster that haunts James Joyce’s Ulysses

Frank McNally
June 14, 2019

“GK Chesterton was certainly no ascetic, enjoying cigars and alcohol as well as food. Unlike most saints, he was also happily married.”

Haloed Fellow Well Met – Frank McNally on GK Chesterton’s claims to sainthood

Frank McNally
June 14, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary on the English novelist who was a ‘friendly enemy’ to Shaw

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, George Orwell’s first wife. In 1934, the year before the couple met, she had published a poem called “1984”

Stop All the Clocks – Frank McNally on the influence of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, on 1984

Frank McNally
June 12, 2019

Éric Tabarly: one of the greatest yachtsmen of his generation

Sailing into history – An Irishman’s Diary on French yachtsman Éric Tabarly

Oliver O’Hanlon
June 11, 2019

The 38th Irish Brigade of the British army on parade in St Peter’s Square on June 12th, 1944

‘The Wearing of the Green’ – An Irishman’s Diary on the Irish Brigade in Rome in 1944

Ronan McGreevy
June 10, 2019

Januarius Aloysius MacGahan: one of the most influential journalists of the 19th century

‘Liberator of Bulgaria’ – An Irishman’s Diary on the journalist Januarius Aloysius MacGahan

Denis Fahey
June 10, 2019

George Orwell: his novel 1984, published 70 years ago today, contains what has been dubbed “one of the strangest coincidences in literature”. Photograph: Getty Images

Big Brother’s Long Shadow – Frank McNally on Orwell’s 1984 at 70

Frank McNally
June 8, 2019

Orwell's 1947 essay 'Towards European Unity' is still relevant today

The variety in question was the well-named “Jazz”, a relatively modern one, from the 1980s

Apple Turnover – Frank McNally on the temptations of Forbidden Fruit

Frank McNally
June 6, 2019

Samuel Beckett: volunteered to aid the town of Saint-Lô, which had been reduced to rubble

Down but not out in Saint-Lô: Frank McNally on Samuel Beckett and the Irish Red Cross in postwar France

Frank McNally
June 5, 2019

The Wellington Monument in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Pillar of Society – Frank McNally on giving the Wellington Monument a much-needed lift

Frank McNally
June 4, 2019

Patrick “Paddy” Gillen was 17 years old when he left home in Galway to join the British army in 1943. The following year, 75 years ago this June 6th, he landed on Sword Beach, Normandy.

‘A Bloody Dawn’ – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the Irish at D-Day

Lara Marlowe
June 4, 2019

José Salas Subirat in 1926. Photograph: Gentileza Penguin Random House

An Irishman’s Diary on José Salas Subirat, the insurance salesman who translated Ulysses

Tim Fanning
June 3, 2019

Michael Davitt’s grave in Straide, Co Mayo

Arms and the Man – Frank McNally on a museum dedicated to reversing the latter-day neglect of Michael Davitt

Frank McNally
May 31, 2019

Peter Doyle and Walt Whitman, circa 1869. Photograph: Courtesy of William R. Perkins Library, Duke University, Trent Collection.

Walt’s Partner – a Limerick man beloved of Walt Whitman

Frank McNally
May 31, 2019

Irishman's Diary: Born 200 years ago, Peter Doyle was poet's lifelong companion

Ring-tailed lemur: stunned reaction. Photograph: Natalia Bubochkina/iStock

Stun the crows – Frank McNally on an overused S-word

Frank McNally
May 29, 2019

May 29th was celebrated (by royalists at least) as Oak Apple Day, the purported anniversary of an event in which King Charles II avoided capture by Cromwellians. Photograph: iStock

Out of his tree – Frank McNally on Royal Oak Day and the pub name it inspired

Frank McNally
May 28, 2019

Illustration to sheet music published in the US in 1906 that was inspired by the story of the Colleen Bawn, Ellen Hanley, who was murdered in 1819

The Colleen Bawn – An Irishman’s Diary on the tragic fate of Ellen Hanley

Brian Maye
May 27, 2019

“What was once a street full of interesting locally owned shops has become an identikit Main Street, with some 40 multinational retailers”

Memory lane – An Irishman’s Diary on Grafton Street

Hugh Oram
May 27, 2019

Commemorative bronze bust and sculpture of Brother Walfrid in his birthplace of Ballymote, Co Sligo

Celtic’s founder – An Irishman’s Diary on Brother Walfrid

Oliver O’Hanlon
May 24, 2019

Seamus Mallon in 1984 holding up a picture taken of the bugging equipment found in the house in Dublin where he stayed occasionally. Photograph: Kevin McMahon

Moyna Transgression – Frank McNally on the Seamus Mallon memoirs and hitchhiking in the 1980s

Frank McNally
May 23, 2019

“The science is still in large part a mystery, because there are so many variables involved and because the trees themselves cannot be interviewed”

Cavorting Buds of May – Frank McNally on a spectacular year for hawthorn blossoms

Frank McNally
May 22, 2019

“It had been several years since my last half marathon but unjustified optimism springs eternal”

Going the Distance – Frank McNally on performing the Ballina and Breffni Park biathlon

Frank McNally
May 21, 2019

“You find yourself standing at an unanswered door, with a leaflet in your hand, and there is a dog the size of a small pony growling at you through the glass panel on the side.” Photograph: iStock

On the canvass – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the perils of electioneering

Fionnuala Ward
May 20, 2019

The wedding photograph of Dan Breen shows him with his Luger pistol on his lap. With him is his wife, Bridget Malone. In background: Seán Hogan and Bridget’s sister, Áine Malone.

Knocklong ambush, on May 13th, 1919 involved a 14-minute gun battle

Ronan McGreevy
May 20, 2019

Irishman's Diary: Action may have saved Seán Hogan from execution, but came at terrible price

Yumi Katsura: ‘When I met Grace Kelly (above), I understood the real meaning of “elegant” as a verb.’ Photograph: Getty Images

Why elegant should never be put to work as a verb in car sales

Frank McNally
May 17, 2019

Antimeria sounds like a female relative of a certain age who bosses everyone around

Exiled in Paris, Joseph Roth foresaw the grim future, writing to his friend and benefactor Stefan Zweig: ‘It will have become clear to you now that we are drifting towards a great catastrophe.’ Photograph: Getty Images

Living in the dark shadow of the Battle of Solferino

Frank McNally
May 16, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary: Geneva Convention and Radetsky March are part of its legacy

Crack/craic: William Shakespeare would have put a K in it. Image: Painting known as the ‘Chandos portrait’/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

How to spell the word craic (or crack?) and what Shakespeare would have said

Frank McNally
May 15, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary: The bard’s ‘cracker’ was somebody who talked big

The remains of a D-Day Mulberry harbour at Arromanches, Normandy. Photograph: iStock

A Portaferry Man in a Storm – Frank McNally on the Irish marine salvage specialist who helped save D-Day

Frank McNally
May 14, 2019

You can still visit San Quentin as a tourist but you can’t actually go inside the gas chamber as before

Death row – An Irishwoman’s Diary on California’s moratorium on the death penalty

Elgy Gillespie
May 14, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary on James Joyce and 15 Usher’s Island

Deaglán de Bréadún
May 13, 2019

Joe Biden on the campaign trail in Los Angeles this week. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Holy Orders – Frank McNally on biblical Joe Biden, James Joyce’s Dublin, and pubs with no beer

Frank McNally
May 10, 2019

Pawel Strzelecki: At the scheme’s height, 200,000 children benefitted. They were fed an eastern European staple, rye bread

Strzelecki’s List – Frank McNally on a Polish hero of the Great Famine

Frank McNally
May 9, 2019

Thomas Blood: “very well spoken and dangerously insinuating”, said one contemporary

Bad Blood – Frank McNally on the Irish man who nearly stole England’s crown jewels

Frank McNally
May 8, 2019

The small, gravel-strewn cross, carved into the grass where Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke were assassinated in 1882

Frank McNally on a forgotten song about the Phoenix Park Murders

Frank McNally
May 7, 2019

The mayoral chain with the smaller sheriff’s chain. Photograph: City of Limerick Libraries

Chain of command – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the mayors of Limerick

Mae Leonard
May 7, 2019

The Long Stone Pub on Townsend Street, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

So long, Long Stone – An Irishman’s Diary on the changing face of Dublin

Denis Fahey
May 6, 2019

Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino: Oedipal struggle. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPA

A whole different ballgame – Frank McNally on the literature of football

Frank McNally
May 3, 2019

Tripe and drisheen in the English Market in Cork

Coming clean on Drisheen – Frank McNally on the mysterious pleasures of a Cork culinary classic

Frank McNally
May 2, 2019

A drawing in red chalk widely accepted as a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Biblioteca Reale, Turin. Machiavelli collaborated with Leonardo on a plan to steal the river Arno from the Pisans, bringing them to their senses, or their knees, or both.

Rolling up the river – Frank McNally on an unlikely partnership between Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli

Frank McNally
May 2, 2019

A newer, brasher breed of seagull – “gulliers” – who preferred hanging around the city. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Jonathan Irishtown Seagull – A Fable (with apologies to Richard Bach)

Frank McNally
April 30, 2019

The Duke of Wellington was born 250 years ago on May 1st. Painting: Thomas Lawrence

The Iron Duke – An Irishman’s Diary on the Duke of Wellington

Brian Maye
April 29, 2019

A spice market in Kerala, India. Photograph: iStock

Spice of life – An Irishman’s Diary on the Indian state of Kerala

Norman Freeman
April 29, 2019

Welsh-born poet Arthur Symons visited the west of Ireland with his friend WB Yeats in 1896

Poetry in motion – An Irishman’s Diary on Arthur Symons and a visit to the Aran Islands in 1896

Oliver O’Hanlon
April 26, 2019

Newmills corn and flax mills in Co Donegal

An Irishman’s Diary on mills and millers

Hugh Oram
April 25, 2019

Soda bread is a bread secure in its own identity, content with its lot in life. Photograph: Luca Trovato/Getty Images

Rising to the occasion – An Irishwoman’s Diary on soda bread

Fionnuala Ward
April 24, 2019

We waited for teenage soldiers, often from the north of England, to decide on how long it should take for us to continue our journey into the South. Photograph: Alan Betson

Staccato questions and insistent torchlight – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Border memories

Una McCaffrey
April 23, 2019

John Pentland Mahaffy: classicist and provost of Trinity College Dublin died 100 years ago on April 30th

Battle of wits – An Irishman’s Diary on Trinity and John Pentland Mahaffy

Brian Maye
April 23, 2019

A flick through old guide books throws up the faded ticket of admission to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and keepsakes such as a postcard from a visit to the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. Photograph: Getty Images

Finding the source of the binge – and other hidden delights

Paul Clements
April 21, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary on the joys of a paper travel guidebook

In his book on the life of V V Giri (above), Irish Days, Indian Memories, Conor Mulvagh notes that the cafe on Dublin’s Henry Street was watched closely by police and their agents. Photograph from the cover of the book, published by Irish Academic Press

From a vegetarian restaurant in Dublin to the presidency of India

Frank McNally
April 19, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary on a historic Henry Street premises

The sign over Dublin’s Lord Edward Pub (a fine old establishment itself, by the way), opposite Christchurch, is considered by Paddy Cullivan considered to be a crime against art. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

An ‘iconic’ Lord Edward and the resurrection of Thomas Street

Frank McNally
April 18, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary takes a sideways look at 1798 commemorations

Flowers at the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home. File photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Irish Times view on the Mother and Baby homes report: concealment, past and present

April 18, 2019

Greater public cooperation is required to expose the truth and confront old prejudices

As for the general pandemic of I-word abuse, its effect on us allergy sufferers is grievous, even in the context of a story like the one from Paris, where the adjective would ordinarily have been useful. Above, a damaged section of Notre-Dame Cathedral after Monday’s fire. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

Iconic inferno – Frank McNally on this week’s unavoidable word

Frank McNally
April 17, 2019

‘It didn’t help that the Notre Dame fire was an event unusually worthy of the word’

If there is any consolation in this week’s disaster, it’s that much of what was destroyed, including the spire, dated only from the reconstruction that started in 1841. Photograph: Yoan Valat/ EPA

Sanctuary in Notre Dame and a brush with a second Quasimodo

Frank McNally
April 16, 2019

I watched the sad TV pictures as if from the bookstore Shakespeare & Co, on the Seine’s left bank

Bord na Móna steam engine, No 2, shunts a single wagon full of turf at Clonsast, Co Offaly on September 26th, 1950. Photograph: Robin N Clements/ Irish Railway Record Society Archive

An Irishman’s Diary on the steam engines of Bord na Móna

Glen Murphy
April 16, 2019

Flashback to days of experimentation and a look at those who preserve its heritage today

In Strokestown Park, in the local library, the secondary school, the Percy French Hotel, and on the streets, the sound of pentameters and rap, haiku and ballads, has enchanted audiences with soulful and humorous testaments of love, beauty, nature, death – the great themes of poetry – and everything else in between. Photograph: Tourism Ireland

Rhyme and reason – An Irishman’s Diary on the Strokestown poetry festival

James Harpur
April 15, 2019

God Save the Queen strikes a discordant note

If any songbird deserves a joint writing credit for Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the ortolan bunting is the one. Photograph: Getty Images

Ortolan’s symphony: Frank McNally on Beethoven’s feathered friend

Frank McNally
April 13, 2019

The Brexit Yellowhammer connection and a bird of a different feather

Members of the Odorikko dance group enjoy a walk on the grounds of Farmleigh House ahead of their show at the Japanese Hanami festival in Dublin’s Phoenix Park. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

Bones of convention – Frank McNally on a dying Japanese custom

Frank McNally
April 11, 2019

Ritual of Senkotsu requires the family to reassemble, disinter the body, and wash the bones

Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

The Rime of the Ancient Brexiter – An Irishman’s Diary

Frank McNally
April 11, 2019

While the Troubles were considered a terrible aberration, the road carnage seemed to be tolerated as a regrettable but inevitable result of progress

The accidental death of an insurrectionist – Frank McNally on Ireland’s other Troubles

Frank McNally
April 9, 2019

Jan Lukasiewicz: Polish logician, mathematician and philosopher was invited to Ireland by Éamon de Valera

Home from home – An Irishman’s Diary on Polish logician, mathematician and philosopher Jan Lukasiewicz

Oliver O’Hanlon
April 8, 2019

Despite its origins and multinational usage, the dollar sign remains quintessentially American. Photograph: IStock

Top dollar – An Irishman’s Diary on Oliver Pollock and the creation of the dollar sign

Tim Fanning
April 8, 2019

George Michael had found an unlikely ally in the protagonist from McEllistrim V Ballymacelligott Co-operative Agricultural and Dairy Society Ltd. Photograph: Neil Munns/PA

Kerry cows have long precedent – Frank McNally on a 100-year-old legal judgment with far-reaching results

Frank McNally
April 5, 2019

“The young man was at first puzzled. Then he realised he had become just the latest recipient of a ‘Corner House Letter’, a sort of news-bulletin on local events, issued to those who had left.”

A Letter to the Galwegians – Frank McNally on an old Glenamaddy custom aimed at keeping emigrants in touch

Frank McNally
April 4, 2019

A carved stone head at what is now Pearse Street Garda station, formerly the Great Brunswick Street DMP barracks. Photograph: Frank Miller

A night on the files – Michael Collins’s undercover intelligence mission of April 1919

Frank McNally
April 3, 2019

None of the reconstruction team asked for any payment, only a regular supply of tea

The house that neighbourliness built – a heart-warming story from Co Galway

Frank McNally
April 2, 2019

An Irishman's Diary by Frank McNally on a community’s good deed

Joe McGowan: rare indeed for property developers to write memoirs. Photograph: Frank Miller

Clearing the Hurdles: An Irishman’s Diary on property developer Joe McGowan

Frank McDonald
April 2, 2019

‘I used to have the utmost sympathy for the huge entry in the annual Liffey swim.’ Photograph: Cyril Byrne

An Irishman’s Diary on the story of the bear in the Liffey

Frank Kilfeather
April 1, 2019

It all started when I was in a phone conversation with a Dublin City Council official

Sir Michael O’Dwyer: key figure in the Amritsar massacre of 100 years ago was not the usual picture of a colonial overlord

Down the Junction – Frank McNally on three very contrasting figures from the same corner of South Tipperary

Frank McNally
March 29, 2019

A police boat on the Chicago river dyed green for St Patrick’s Day. Photograph: iStock/Steve Geer

Fiddler on the Hoof – Frank McNally on the making of a Chicago betting tycoon, ‘Big Jim’ O’Leary

Frank McNally
March 28, 2019

Leo Rowsome

Some Man for a Row? Not Really – Frank McNally on a hero of the uilleann pipes, Leo Rowsome

Frank McNally
March 27, 2019

Sunlight illuminating the Cairn T Neolithic burial chamber at Loughcrew. Photograph: Alan Betson

Light work, dark matter – Frank McNally on a day spent with Neolithic astronomers and Samuel Beckett

Frank McNally
March 26, 2019

“For months our cosy trio spent many enjoyable hours simply tasting paper. This was a novel experience for us.” Photograph: iStock

It’s in the bag – An Irishman’s Diary on tea

Owen Dawson
March 26, 2019

“If you are in the throes of decluttering, I urge you to put down that china shepherdess and pause” Illustration: Aleutie/iStock

An Irishwoman’s Diary on the life-changing magic of hanging on to stuff

Alison Healy
March 25, 2019

Tom O’Higgins was in 1950 a young TD who was dispatched to Strasbourg with the Irish delegation to the Council of Europe

Home Truths from Abroad – Frank McNally on a letter written in 1950 that still holds true today

Frank McNally
March 22, 2019

The White House South Lawn. Photograph: iStock

Sharing of the Green: Frank McNally on the Irish gardeners of 19th-century Washington

Frank McNally
March 21, 2019

Frank Wills: Watergate’s “watchman in the night”. Photograph: Courtesy of the Washington Post

Stranger in the night – Frank McNally on the forgotten security guard who caught the Watergate burglars

Frank McNally
March 20, 2019

The idea that Washington was ever a physical swamp is what Trump calls “fake news”. Photograph: Sean Pavone/iStock

Hanging Washington out to dry – Frank McNally on an enduring myth about the US capital

Frank McNally
March 19, 2019

In the case of records, I seem to recall, the import duty was something like 40 per cent.

On the record – An Irishman’s Diary on smuggling vinyl

Emmet Malone
March 19, 2019

A lane known as the Dark Hedges has become a celebrity road of Instagrammable fame

Where Throners dare – An Irishman’s Diary on tourism and Game of Thrones

Paul Clements
March 18, 2019

Hugh O’Conor – or Hugo Oconór, as he was known in Spanish – the founder of Tucson, Arizona, and governor of the Spanish Colony of Texas

An Irishman’s Diary on Hugh O’Conor and the first Mexican ‘wall’

Tim Fanning
March 15, 2019

“There is a touch of gaiety in the woman’s headscarf, decorated with circles. But her face is gaunt, hardship etched on it. She survived the Great Hunger, for Raftery died in 1835.”

An Irishman’s Diary on Jack B Yeats and the woman who met Blind Raftery

Colum Kenny
March 15, 2019

All over San Francisco, small pockets of goats are munching down. They’re in demand as firefighting auxiliaries. Goats are “having a moment”, as we say.

Nanny state – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the goats of California

Elgy Gillespie
March 13, 2019

Carmel Snow (left) and Diana Vreeland reviewing magazine layouts in Harper’s Bazaar in December 1952. Photograph: Walter Sanders/Getty Images

Queen of Harper’s Bazaar – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Carmel Snow

Bernice Harrison
March 12, 2019

Limerick-born James Bourchier was at the 1919 Paris peace conference, arguing on behalf of Bulgaria which, as a belligerent, was not entitled to a seat at the talks

Our man in Bulgaria – An Irishman’s Diary on James Bourchier

Michael Foley
March 12, 2019

The bell from the Léon XIII is now in the Stella Maris church in Quilty, Co Clare, to commemorate the rescue

Valour at sea – An Irishman’s Diary on the rescue of the crew of the Léon XIII

Oliver O’Hanlon
March 11, 2019

Katie Taylor: trailblazer. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Reuters

No non-Irish need apply – Frank McNally on an era in American boxing when not being Irish was a major handicap

Frank McNally
March 8, 2019

A talking cow who bad-mouths the then 28-day March from the supposed safety of April. Photograph: iStock

Bó Selecta – Frank McNally on mythical cows, real-life Border roads, and Brexit

Frank McNally
March 7, 2019

Despite working his way through £100 million in today’s values, he lamented never having acquired ‘one hour’s true happiness’

Foolhardy Buck – Frank McNally on a new book about ‘Ireland’s Greatest Adventurer’, Thomas Whaley

Frank McNally
March 6, 2019

The Arch of Titus in Rome. Photograph: Holly Caputo/iStock

Rock of Ages – Frank McNally on an architectural link between Home Rule and Rome Rule

Frank McNally
March 5, 2019

PJ McCall: died 100 years ago on March 8th

Pulse of the Bard – An Irishman’s Diary on poet and songwriter PJ McCall

Brian Maye
March 5, 2019

Novelist and playwright Kate O’Brien (1897-1974). Photograph: Sasha/Getty Images)

Lara Marlowe on writer Kate O’Brien’s prophetic vision

Lara Marlowe
March 4, 2019

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Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Deer God – Frank McNally on the dramatic surge in popularity of the girl’s name Fiadh

Frank McNally
March 1, 2019

Milan’s Central Station. Photograph: iStock

A hot date in Bologna (and other history lessons) – Frank McNally’s Italian weekend, Part II

Frank McNally
February 27, 2019

“I was in Bologna, strolling a medieval street called the Via Malcontenti”

Lingering on the Lingo – In pursuit of Italian fluency, Frank McNally takes a roundabout route to Rome

Frank McNally
February 26, 2019

A 1968 “teach-in” at Earlsfort Terrace. Two of the Students for Democratic Action’s founders are in the photograph: Ruairí Quinn (with hand on head) and Una Claffey (wearing a beret). Photograph: Copyright Bill Hastings

Radical days at UCD – the Gentle Revolution 50 years on

Deaglán de Bréadún
February 25, 2019

Happily, I still have a full head of hair, greying ever so gradually.

Reasons to rejoice at reaching three score years

Steve Coronella
February 25, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary: In two areas, at least, age has improved me

The Emperor Diocletian chose this date in 303AD to launch his great persecution of the Christians. Photograph: CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images

The other marching season: Terminalia, the Roman festival of boundaries

Frank McNally
February 22, 2019

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