An Irishman’s Diary
An Irishwoman’s Diary
Irishman’s Diary: Belfast GP Frank Murray’s diary used Irish to hide sensitive material
Botanical artist Charlotte Isabelle Wheeler Cuffe discovered three new plant species in Burma
An already sad week was made worse by the death of the great American journalist Pete Hamill
Inside St Patrick’s cathedral lie monuments that if they stood elsewhere might have been consigned to the Liffey
Perhaps somewhere, in an Irish political heaven, the Derry man is discussing this with another great former leader of nationalism
This mixture of classic Americana, chalked outlines and a picnic area is a like some Lynch-directed dream-sequence: a bunfight at the RHK corral
An Irishwoman’s Diary: ‘The statue was badly weathered, some of which dated to when it was in front of the Department of Education’
‘He led me like a reluctant puppy into the middle of the office floor and, with a swift jerk he had me in a headlock on the slippery floor’
‘It seemed like an overreaction to have the WHO intervene, although it being Geneva, I suppose, it could just as easily have been the UN’
Frank McNally on a fashion for sticks, fear of statues and the craze of politicians taking shirts off
How ‘brat’ worked its way down in the world
It’s as if we think of our feet as footwear in themselves, which they are
Noel Costello: ‘He gave me his Roman emperor glance and let the page run through all editions’
A discredited system has survived this long because the political will to dismantle it has been absent
The open rift between Boris Johnson and Greater Manchester’s mayor Andy Burnham was inevitable
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