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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

An Irishwoman’s Diary

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

Frank McNally: Termons were places of sanctuary too, even for those fleeing justice

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: speaking at the Islands of the Mind conference in June. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times

Ode to a Grecian sojourn – the enduring mystique of islands

Frank McNally
February 21, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary: Getting a taste for Robinsonade, a 300-year-old literary genre

By dropping the apostrophe, James Joyce turned Finnegans Wake into a statement: commanding Finnegans everywhere to rise from the dead. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images By dropping the apostrophe, James Joyce turned Finnegans Wake into a statement: commanding Finnegans everywhere to rise from the dead. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images By dropping the apostrophe, James Joyce turned Finnegans Wake into a statement: commanding Finnegans everywhere to rise from the dead. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images By dropping the apostrophe, James Joyce turned Finnegans Wake into a statement: commanding Finnegans everywhere to rise from the dead. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Taking Liberties with the dead: where life and death imitate art

Frank McNally
February 20, 2019

Frank McNally on some of the literary inspirations of James Joyce’s Dublin

Former British Labour party MP Chuka Umunna at the Independent Group Party launch and press conference in London, on February 18th, 2019, where seven MPs announced their resignation from the Labour Party, and the formation of a new independent group of MPs. Photograph: Vickie Flores/EPA

Chuka Ár Lá? Umunna and the Irish connection

Frank McNally
February 19, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary: How the Milmo name revealed a varied past

Kildare, Mario informs me, is packed with all sorts of history. Photograph: Cyril Byrne / THE IRISH TIMES

A Kildare tourist attraction like no other

Mae Leonard
February 18, 2019

An Irishwoman’s Diary: Two tourists shout at us from the top of tower

The Powerscourt Distillery in Co Wicklow. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

The water of life – An Irishman’s Diary on whiskey

Hugh Oram
February 18, 2019

“Unusually for a cat, she has been the subject of a ruling by the actual rugby referee, Nigel Owens”

Feline Fight Club – Frank McNally on what mountain runners (and other potential meals for wildlife) can learn from their pets

Frank McNally
February 15, 2019

Mr What’s triumphant homecoming in 1958

Odds and (bookmakers’) ends: Frank McNally on horses, war heroes, and the vagaries of fortune

Frank McNally
February 14, 2019

Dan Hogan had all the confidence of a new generation rising to power. Photograph: Courtesy of Monaghan County Museum

Hogan’s Last Stand – Frank McNally on the strange disappearance of a former Free State general

Frank McNally
February 13, 2019

An Irishman's Diary on General Dan Hogan who raised the Tricolour in Dublin Castle after handover from British rule

Statue of Julius Caesar in Cividale del Friuli. Photograph: iStock

The rites (and wrongs) of spring – Frank McNally on Lupercalia

Frank McNally
February 12, 2019

Thomas Johnson and Cathal O’Shannon were the Irish representatives at a tense “International Labour and Socialist Conference” in Berne on February 12th, 1919

The Berne identity: An Irishman’s Diary on the socialist congress of 1919

Colum Kenny
February 11, 2019

Photograph: iStock

The heart of the matter – An Irishman’s Diary on Valentine’s Day

Steve Coronella
February 11, 2019

A frame from the documentary film ‘The Battle of the Somme’. The soldier carrying a wounded comrade may have been Charlie Brennan, a Dubliner.

Checkmate Charlie? – Frank McNally on another breakthrough in one of the first World War’s enduring mysteries

Frank McNally
February 8, 2019

John Ruskin in 1882

Frank McNally on the links between Ireland and John Ruskin, who was born 200 years ago today

Frank McNally
February 8, 2019

“As late as the 1930s, the fear of smallpox still haunted Ireland, and yet many people refused to vaccinate, by then a legal requirement.” Photograph: iStock

Vax of life – Frank McNally revisits Raftery and the disease that robbed him of his sight

Frank McNally
February 6, 2019

Singapore. Photograph: iStock

Sing Street - Frank McNally on the Irish contribution to modern Singapore, which is 200 years old today

Frank McNally
February 5, 2019

Self-portrait by George Francis Mulvany, the first director of the National Gallery of Ireland

Drawing forth – An Irishman’s Diary on George Francis Mulvany

Brian Maye
February 4, 2019

Eileen Battersby. Photograph: Alan Betson

Print run – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Eileen Battersby and sports journalism

Lorna Siggins
February 4, 2019

Johnny Sexton at a training session at the Aviva yesterday. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

England Expects, Ireland Expectorates: Frank McNally on our most intense sporting rivalry

Frank McNally
February 1, 2019

Sculpture of Antoine Ó Raifteirí in Craughwell, Co Galway

Raftery Remembered – Frank McNally on two contrasting tributes to the Bard of Kiltimagh

Frank McNally
January 31, 2019

If you’ve never had an MRI, it’s like being trapped inside a Lambeg drum for 45 minutes on the 12th of July

Cardiac Unrest – Frank McNally gets his heart checked out but keeps running

Frank McNally
January 30, 2019

Figurehead of the HMS ‘Hibernia’ at the Malta Maritime Museum

Dubbed Over – On the murky origins of Victor Herbert, and a Brexit-foreshadowing naval disaster

Frank McNally
January 29, 2019

Richard Bourke, the Earl of Mayo. He was made viceroy of India and was assassinated there in 1872.

Death of a viceroy – An Irishman’s Diary on the assassination of Lord Mayo

Norman Freeman
January 28, 2019

Erich Maria Remarque, author of 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. File photograph: Getty Images

An unquiet life – Erich Maria Remarque and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

Derek Scally
January 28, 2019

Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Luas Connections – Frank McNally on the links between James Joyce, Edwin Lutyens, and Brexit red-line issues

Frank McNally
January 25, 2019

Dublin-born composer Victor Herbert: string of Broadway hits

Come Again Eileen – Frank McNally on an overdue revival of Irish-American composer Victor Herbert

Frank McNally
January 24, 2019

“The reader is a computerised female American, so there are unintentionally humorous results when she encounters Irish place-names or other eccentricities.” Photograph: iStock

Automated Yeats – Frank McNally discovers the joys of computerised poetry reading

Frank McNally
January 23, 2019

The “Super Blood Wolf Moon” over Marseille. Photograph: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters

Pale moon rising – Frank McNally fails to witness the lunar eclipse

Frank McNally
January 23, 2019

The guilt and Fomo had returned. That light cloud could easily have cleared

In Belfast, the 1919 strike committee effectively ran the city

Hidden history – An Irishman’s Diary on the Belfast engineering strike of 1919

Padraig Yeates
January 21, 2019

Christopher Columbus monument in Barcelona. Photograph: iStock

Strange new world: An Irishman’s Diary on Chicago, Columbus and Guillermo Herries

Tim Fanning
January 21, 2019

Ian Paisley jnr: plenty of reading material in his Irish passport. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA

Hung, Thrawn, and Quartered – Frank NcNally on Westminster’s Brexit crisis, as seen through Ulster-Scots

Frank McNally
January 18, 2019

Michael MacWhite: flair for dramatic gestures. Photograph: Courtesy of irishmeninparis.org

Diplomatic tangle in Paris – Ireland’s unofficial presence at the 1919 peace talks

Frank McNally
January 18, 2019

Detail from a cartoon in the ‘Dublin Opinion’ of 1930. Colleagues claim the resemblance with the incumbent diarist is uncanny.

ID Required: An old cartoon causes the Irishman’s Diarist to question his identity

Frank McNally
January 17, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary

“In fairness, the singers were good customers. Along with songs, they were murdering large quantities of drink.” Photograph: Dara MacDonaill

Blacking Vocals – Frank McNally on the wisdom of singing bans in pubs

Frank McNally
January 15, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary

“Fines were seldom accrued: they enforced a functional form of justice and I returned my loans promptly to get reading anew” Photograph: iStock

An Irishman’s Diary on exponential library fines, calculus and paying your dues

John Fleming
January 14, 2019

At least sometimes, the folk cures had roots in biology or chemistry

Shingled Out – Frank McNally on the strange tradition by which certain Irish surnames inherited ‘the cure’

Frank McNally
January 11, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary

For people of my parents’ generation, belief in such cures ranged from absolute to a shrugged “sure it can’t do any harm”. Photograph: iStock

Miraculous Medicine – Frank McNally on those stalwarts of Irish life: people with ‘the cure’

Frank McNally
January 10, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary

Happy New You – Frank McNally on the hopes and dreams of January

Frank McNally
January 9, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary

Not only has “The Second Coming” inspired a thousand headlines, it launched a miniature library of book titles. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Coming to Stay – WB Yeats’s most famous poem turns 100

Frank McNally
January 8, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary

Behind the kitchen door in every Californian bistro, bar, restaurant, or family home is an invisible, underpaid, undocumented workforce

Behind the kitchen door – An Irishwoman’s Diary on California’s sanctuary cities

Elgy Gillespie
January 7, 2019

The writer, watercolourist and influential art critic John Ruskin

Unto This Last – An Irishman’s Diary on John Ruskin, Venice and Ireland

Paul Clements
January 7, 2019

Tim Healy as caricatured by Spy in ‘Vanity Fair’ in 1886

Horsewhipped: An Irishman’s Diary on Tim Healy and an enraged Parnellite

Denis Fahey
January 4, 2019

A fishing boat which was washed inland by the 2011 tsunami in Japan. Photograph: iStock

Inexorable forces – An Irishwoman’s Diary on tsunamis

Fionnuala Ward
January 3, 2019

Ranelagh Gardens in 1986. Photograph: Dublin City Photographic Collection

A breath of fresh air – An Irishman’s Diary on Ranelagh Gardens

Hugh Oram
January 2, 2019

The “big three” at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919: French president Paul Clemenceau, US president Woodrow Wilson and British prime minister David Lloyd-George.

A year of anxiety and upheaval – An Irishman’s Diary on 1919

Brian Maye
December 31, 2018

Most hiccups are caused by eating or drinking too fast, drinking too much alcohol, or stress. Photograph: Nicole Taionescu/iStock Most hiccups are caused by eating or drinking too fast, drinking too much alcohol, or stress. Photograph: Nicole Taionescu/iStock

An Irishwoman’s Diary on the hiccups

Alison Healy
December 31, 2018

Basil Zaharoff: known as the “merchant of death” for his links to arms trade

An Irishman’s Diary on Basil Zaharoff, the ‘mystery man of Europe’

Oliver O’Hanlon
December 28, 2018

‘Were we single? Had we dowries? Had we ever footed turf or saved hay? Did we know a cow’s udder from her tail? It was like landing in a parallel universe for us two city girls’. Photograph: Getty Images

A stormy Christmas journey to an island – and another world

Áine Ryan
December 27, 2018

An Irishwoman’s Diary about a dark crossing to Clare Island

The Fastnet lighthouse. This picture was taken during the 2011 Southern Extreme Irish Lighthouse Tour. Photograph: John Eagle

Shining a light on the legacy of lighthouses

Lorna Siggins
December 27, 2018

An Irishwoman’s Diary on the inside stories and dramatic images of lighthouses

RM Smyllie, editor of The Irish Times from 1934 until his death in 1954.

Berlin under the revolution: a journalist is born

Frank Bouchier-Hayes
December 24, 2018

RM Smyllie vividly depicts how arrival of rebellious sailors caused events to move swiftly

‘A separate category, which depends on the celebrity of the recipient, is to send a letter to, say, “Pat Spillane” and include one or more expletives in place of an address.’ Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times

To the wonderful Siobhan, Carbury, Kildare, Ireland

Frank McNally
December 22, 2018

An Irishman’s Diary on the magic of An Post at Christmastime

What would George Bernard Shaw have made of Tom Waits’s voice, howling like a drunken hobo? Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

When Christmas singers bring tidings of joy – and other emotions

Frank McNally
December 20, 2018

Yulenight serenade – Frank McNally on a mixed blessing of Christmases past

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