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Rev Dr Donald Caskie: known as the Tartan Pimpernel for his wartime activities in occupied France An Irishman’s Diary on Donald Caskie, the ‘Tartan Pimpernel’
  • Oliver O’Hanlon
  • September 16, 2019

“Of course the inner-city community had it worst in Derry, but the Troubles brought terror to the suburbs and beyond too.” Photograph: Julian Dewert/iStock Checkpoint Derry – An Irishwoman’s Diary on growing up amid the watchtowers
  • Mary Minihan
  • September 14, 2019

Mary Minihan: 'I suppose I had a kid’s-eye view of the Troubles from the back seat of the car'

An artist’s impression of the proposed new bridge at Islandbridge Knees and the Man – Frank McNally on 1,000 years of war and peace in Islandbridge
  • Frank McNally
  • September 13, 2019

Clara Schumann: visited Ireland at least once, to play concerts in Dublin in 1856 Channelling Clara – Frank McNally on the story of a celebrity German piano in Donegal
  • Frank McNally
  • September 12, 2019

Statue of Edmund Burke at Trinity College Dublin. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons Of Berks and Burkeans – Frank McNally on foxhunting, the French Revolution, and Brexit
  • Frank McNally
  • September 11, 2019

“I had been warned by experts that chafing can be a big problem” Year of the Drench – Frank McNally channels the 1798 invaders on a damp trek through Mayo
  • Frank McNally
  • September 10, 2019

The first German officials moved into the Irish College building on July 19th, 1937, a year to the day after the military coup had taken place in Salamanca An Irishman’s Diary on the Irish College in Salamanca and the Spanish Civil War
  • Tim Fanning
  • September 9, 2019

Raymond McGrath’s unbuilt design for the John F Kennedy Memorial Hall at Beggar’s Bush in Dublin. Courtesy of Archiseek.com Grand designs – An Irishman’s Diary on Dublin’s unbuilt architectural plans
  • Hugh Oram
  • September 9, 2019

The monastery of Ostrog in Montenegro A Home from Homer – Frank McNally on an epic experience in Montenegro
  • Frank McNally
  • September 6, 2019

Daniel McNally navigates the Sarajevo tunnel Tunnel vision – Frank McNally on the highs and lows of Sarajevo
  • Frank McNally
  • September 5, 2019

The Sarajevo street corner, where on June 28th, 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s driver took a cataclysmic wrong turn A turn for the worse – Frank McNally on a street corner that changed the course of history
  • Frank McNally
  • September 4, 2019

“We forgot all about borders because, God knows, the roads were enough to be worried about” At The Border, Cross – Frank McNally on the stresses of driving through the former Yugoslavia
  • Frank McNally
  • September 3, 2019

Pilgrims at the holy city of Mecca. Photograph: iStock An Irishman’s Diary on a pilgrim ship to Jeddah
  • Norman Freeman
  • September 2, 2019

The teardrop motif was used on the borders of clothing in Kashmir and the East India Company brought examples of this pattern back to Britain Fabric of society – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the Paisley shawl
  • Mae Leonard
  • September 2, 2019

Read all over – An Irishman’s Diary on the Sunday Press
  • Ray Burke
  • August 30, 2019

William Dunlea: sang in some of the most celebrated concert halls in these islands and America. Photograph: Courtesy of Cork City Libraries An Irishman’s Diary on tenor William Dunlea, the ‘voice of Erin’
  • Oliver O’Hanlon
  • August 29, 2019

“As I sat in front of my PC recently, trying to book three day-return tickets to Belfast, I wasn’t feeling the love from Bus Éireann.” Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Commuter technology – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Bus Éireann and customer service
  • Therese Caherty
  • August 28, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary on Timor-Leste’s joyous liberation
  • David Shanks
  • August 27, 2019

The Yeats International Summer School is still going strong after 60 years An Irishman’s Diary on the Yeats International Summer School
  • Deaglán de Bréadún
  • August 27, 2019

“Like greed, the mighty abacus never sleeps.” Photograph: iStock Let me count the ways – An Irishman’s Diary on the abacus
  • John Fleming
  • August 26, 2019

A seagull swoops to snatch a sandwich outside the National Library of Ireland, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times Why it is time for a cull of seagulls in Dublin
  • Frank McDonald
  • August 24, 2019

Anyone who has had a sandwich snatched out of their hand has surely wished for a shotgun

“After I commented on the size of a pothole on a country lane recently, a small voice from the back seat wondered what a pothole was.“ Photograph: Cyril Byrne Potholes, ashtrays and other things I’m glad my children don’t know about
  • Alison Healy
  • August 22, 2019

An Irishwoman’s Diary on how a chance encounter lead to an unexpected question

Photograph: iStock Taking it on the chin – An Irishman’s Diary on beards
  • Steve Coronella
  • August 21, 2019

Benedict Kiely: as well as being a superb literary craftsman, he was also a working journalist of the highest calibre. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Urgent copy – An Irishman’s Diary on Ben Kiely’s journalism
  • John Horgan
  • August 20, 2019

Fr Aidan Troy: “You can’t just put plastic over violence and say it’s done. The trauma remains.” Photograph: Emmanuel Fradin From Wicklow to Paris via Belfast: An Irishwoman’s Diary on Fr Aidan Troy and St Joseph’s
  • Lara Marlowe
  • August 19, 2019

Gunther Kress: arguably best known for the 1996 book, Reading Images – The Grammar of Visual Design From writing to image: how Gunter Kress helped change the way we think
  • Joe Breen
  • August 19, 2019

I like to think Kress would have liked Leiria’s story and way in which it was told

‘I found myself among the speakers on a panel at Worldcon 2019, an extraordinary event that has brought thousands of sci-fi enthusiasts to Ireland from all over the world’. Worldcon mad: a collision between science fiction and Flann O’Brien
  • Frank McNally
  • August 16, 2019

Important principles from the catechism of cliché and a parallel development

George Orwell: ‘Marx discovered to be very lousy, ears full of nits, no doubt owing to the hot weather.’ Photograph: Photo 12/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images Of dogs and dogma – Frank McNally on Orwell, Marx and history repeating itself
  • Frank McNally
  • August 15, 2019

Marx repeated something his friend Friedrich Engels had just written about Hegel

Young Irelander John Mitchel wrote witheringly years later of how England ‘sent round the hat all over the globe’. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images Irishman's Diary: An enigma of the Famine years in Ireland
  • Frank McNally
  • August 14, 2019

Was Polish Count Pawel Strzelecki a spy for the British government?

Famine victims: a peasant family in The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, from 1900. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty How workhouses contributed to the misfortune of the Famine
  • Frank McNally
  • August 13, 2019

Government decisions were in accordance with grim teachings of Thomas Malthus

Ben Kiely, at home in Morehampton Road, Dublin in 1999. Dara Mac Dónaill. Benedict Kiely memorably portrays travelling across the US in the 1960s
  • Paul Clements
  • August 12, 2019

He captured the changing face of the country, through Irish eyes

Woodstock, August 1969. Photograph: John Dominis/The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images Muddied but unbowed – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Woodstock festival
  • Margaret Hickey
  • August 12, 2019

Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho Haet Speech – Frank McNally on Hiberno-English
  • Frank McNally
  • August 9, 2019

Photograph: Cecilie Arcurs/iStock A Win for the Ages – Frank McNally on why (some) old runners are still hard to beat
  • Frank McNally
  • August 8, 2019

Portrait of Hutcheson by Allan Ramsay, circa 1745. Happy Hutcheson Day – Frank McNally on the most influential Irishman you’ve probably never heard of
  • Frank McNally
  • August 8, 2019

Guinness: one of the aromas of Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Not To Be Sniffed At – Frank McNally on the disappearing smells of Dublin
  • Frank McNally
  • August 6, 2019

Recreation (oil on canvas, 1950) by Fr Jack Hanlon (1913–1968). Courtesy of Crawford Art Gallery Cork Painter and priest – An Irishman’s Diary on Fr Jack Hanlon
  • Oliver O’Hanlon
  • August 6, 2019

Bulmer Hobson: became deeply involved in advanced Irish nationalism in the first part of the 20th century. Photograph: Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland From revolutionary to civil servant – An Irishman’s Diary on Bulmer Hobson
  • Brian Maye
  • August 5, 2019

Benjamin Disraeli: strong views. Hulton Archive/Getty Images Folklore Gaeilge-Béarla – Frank McNally on fear (and loathing) in Anglo-Irish relations
  • Frank McNally
  • August 2, 2019

Detail from Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques Louis David. Musée des Châteaux de Versailles Crash Corse in History – Frank McNally on the island that produced Napoleon
  • Frank McNally
  • August 1, 2019

As first published in 1851, the title of Moby-Dick has a hyphen, something since dropped by many reprints, all film versions, and now – accidentally – by me. Photograph: iStock Hyphenation Once Again – Frank McNally on a controversial punctuation mark
  • Frank McNally
  • July 31, 2019

Herman Melville: bicentenary of birth Great White Fail – Frank McNally on going where few book-lovers have gone before and reading all of Moby Dick
  • Frank McNally
  • July 30, 2019

The noble checkout divider – that stick thing that separates people’s groceries on the conveyor belt Aisle be back – An Irishwoman’s Diary on supermarkets and checkout dividers
  • Alison Healy
  • July 29, 2019

Paleokastritsa beach on Corfu. Photograph: iStock Islands of the Mind – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Corfu and the Durrell family
  • Áine Ryan
  • July 29, 2019

The picking of fraughans at this time of year is deeply rooted in Irish life High-hanging fruit – Frank McNally on the lore of the ancient fraughan
  • Frank McNally
  • July 26, 2019

Frank McNally with someone else’s fish Never mind the pollocks – Frank McNally on the ups and downs of sea fishing
  • Frank McNally
  • July 25, 2019

Bob Dylan in Martin Scorsese’s documentary Rolling Thunder Review. Photograph: Netflix Easy and Slow – An Irishman’s Diary on Bob Dylan and a Dublin ballad
  • Gerard Smyth
  • July 24, 2019

Detail from The Victory, the last of four embroideries in the series The Progress of a Soul, by Phoebe Anna Traquair. Photograph: National Galleries of Scotland Drawing ahead – An Irishwoman’s Diary on artist and designer Phoebe Anna Traquair
  • Deirdre McQuillan
  • July 23, 2019

Alpacas are the world’s most absurdly cute animals An Irishwoman’s Diary on Donegal’s Wild Alpaca Way
  • Elgy Gillespie
  • July 22, 2019

A detail from the painting The Battle of Aughrim by John Mulvany The bloodiest battlefield in Irish history: An Irishman’s Diary on the Battle of Aughrim
  • Ray Burke
  • July 22, 2019

Jimmy Hogan during his first spell at Aston Villa, circa 1936. Photograph: Courtesy of the Aston Villa Archives Hogan’s Heroes – Frank McNally on an Irish link to one of the 20th century’s greatest soccer teams, the “Mighty Magyars”
  • Frank McNally
  • July 19, 2019

Blindboy Boatclub: listed Flann O’Brien as one of his great heroes, alongside “Bob Dylan and Tom Waits” At Swim-Two-Bobs – Frank McNally on the mysteries of numerology in the work of Bob Dylan and Flann O’Brien
  • Frank McNally
  • July 19, 2019

At Swim-Two-Birds pays extended homage to the number 3 with three beginnings, three ends and a similar number of plots in between

Bob Dylan performing at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, on Sunday. Photograph: Raphael Pour-Hashemi Tripping out in Kilkenny – Frank McNally on the people you meet at rock concerts
  • Frank McNally
  • July 18, 2019

William Joyce: “Lord Haw-Haw” attracted odium for his wartime radio broadcasts from Nazi Germany Germany Calling: An Irishman’s Diary on William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw’
  • Deaglán de Bréadún
  • July 16, 2019

Wendon – now called Balnagowan – in Glasnevin is in a sorry state. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw An Irishwoman’s Diary on the sad fate of Wendon, ‘Dublin’s Wonder House’
  • Bernice Harrison
  • July 15, 2019

Fred the Seagull The seagull has landed – An Irishman’s Diary on an unexpected guest
  • Colm Keena
  • July 15, 2019

The Guinness tunnel under James’s Street in Dublin Tunnel vision – Frank McNally gets a tour of Guinness’s brewery
  • Frank McNally
  • July 12, 2019

Robin Berrington was ordered home after some uncomplimentary things he wrote about the Irish became public. Photograph: P Flannagan Dull food and unpredictable people - what a US diplomat thought of Ireland in 1980
  • Conor O’Clery
  • July 12, 2019

’Wild-eyed’ republicans or Anglo-Irish types who spoke as if they were sucking marbles

Poster for the fifth international Flann O’Brien conference, which starts on Tuesday and will involve several days of non-stop talking by academics and other Flannoraks, from at least four continents.  Festival of Flann – Frank McNally on a big homecoming for Dublin’s funniest writer
  • Frank McNally
  • July 10, 2019

You can strut while playing the flute, something much harder to do with bagpipes or accordions. Photograph: iStock The flutes, the flutes are calling – Frank McNally on Ireland’s most politicised musical instrument
  • Frank McNally
  • July 9, 2019

The two ancient stone pillars at the entrance to what was, until last year, Kevin Street Garda station. Photograph: Sara Freund What lies beneath – An Irishman’s Diary on Kevin Street station’s medieval wonders
  • Paddy Murray
  • July 8, 2019

Read all about it: Michael Harding, Christina McHugh and Patsy McGarry focus on local newspapers. Photograph: Gerard O’Loughlin Local newspapers remind us of the importance of a place we call home
  • Christina McHugh
  • July 8, 2019

What would George M Tully think if he were to step inside a modern newsroom?

A battering ram is used to break into a house on the estate of Captain Hector Vandeleur in Co Clare, during an eviction of tenants for the non-payment of rent in 1888. The tenants have stuffed foliage in the doors and windows to hinder entry. Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images Blunt instrument – the Kilrush evictions of 1888 and the ‘Vandeleur ram’
  • Frank McNally
  • July 5, 2019

Evictions combined with advent of photojournalism brought ram under spotlight

Con Ó Drisceoil is among Ireland’s leading practitioners of the comic ballad, an ancient art form. Photograph: from the cover of his book, Hunting the Hair, courtesy of TG4/Gradam Ceoil Clare set: Frank McNally on two new books with a common thread
  • Frank McNally
  • July 4, 2019

Irishman's Diary: Musicians bumped into each other on my desk via respective books

Pulitzer Prize-winning American Poet Laureate Robert Frost: Derry was where Frost wrote much of his early work No dividing wall – Frank McNally on the US neighbouring towns of Derry and Londonderry
  • Frank McNally
  • July 4, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary:

Frediano’s fame contributed to the popularity of Lucca as a stop for Irish pilgrims in the medieval era. Above, the old town with the Basilica of San Frediano. Photograph: Phas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A devout son of an Ulster king is said to have saved Lucca from disaster
  • Tim Fanning
  • July 2, 2019

Those who have visited this part of Italy will understand Frediano’s abrupt decision to relocate

Kuno Meyer complained that Germany had done nothing to manifest its sympathy with Irish separatism since the comradeship in arms inaugurated in 1916 at the instigation of Roger Casement above). Image: Detail from Mick O’Dea’s portrait of Roger Casement (Photograph: Nick Bradshaw) Digitisation could turn Meyer’s dream for ancient Irish poetry and prose into reality
  • Denis Fahey
  • July 1, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary: Celtic scholar praised for his work on old Irish poems and sagas

The “Earl of Rone” is presumed to refer to Hugh O’Neill (c1550–1616), aka the Earl of Ty-rone.  Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The hunting of the Earl of Rone – and the Irish connection
  • Frank McNally
  • June 28, 2019

An Irishman’s Diary: The festival was banned in 1837 after a man fell to his death during the debauches

‘As for the travails of Monaghan GAA supporters, I would hesitate to compare the seven years we had Malachy O’Rourke (above) as manager –a period that ended last Saturday night – with the time James Stockdale spent in the Hanoi Hilton. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho A twist of faith – Frank McNally on GAA supporters and the ‘Stockdale Paradox’
  • Frank McNally
  • June 27, 2019

Defining event of Stockdale’s life was the time he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam

Michael Davitt (above) named Martin Hanley Carey among inmates who became ‘oblivious to their sufferings from temporary insanity’. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Medical militia – Frank McNally on the Irish presence at the Franco-Prussian war
  • Frank McNally
  • June 26, 2019

The motivation for Irish participation was humanitarian, in large part

Bernard Arnault: Even the man who owns Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Dom Pérignon, and other luxury brands must have gone to school post-natally like the rest of us. Photograph: Christophe Archambault / AFP /Getty Images Young man in a hurry (x2): Frank McNally is misled by a ‘dangling modifier’
  • Frank McNally
  • June 25, 2019

When the start of a sentence loses touch with the end

Iris Murdoch at the conferring of honorary degrees by Dublin University in 1985. Photograph: Jack McManus / THE IRISH TIMES How Irish was Iris? The life and times of the first Irish-born Booker Prize-winner
  • Brian Maye
  • June 24, 2019

Iris Murdoch: ‘Being a woman is like being Irish’, one of her characters said

The “big three” at the Paris Peace Conference: French president Paul Clemenceau (far left), US president Woodrow Wilson and British prime minister David Lloyd George. A bitter peace – An Irishman’s Diary on the Treaty of Versailles
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • June 24, 2019

Dr James Deeny, who became chief medical officer of the Department of Health in the late 1940s General Practitioner – Frank McNally on Orangemen, “Blue Men”, and Americans in war-time Armagh
  • Frank McNally
  • June 22, 2019

The official crew portrait of the Apollo 11 astronauts: Neil Armstrong (left), Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. Photograph: Nasa Men on a Mission – Frank McNally on a tale of two Michael Collinses
  • Frank McNally
  • June 20, 2019

“If Brexit ever happens, it will leave Ireland as the European Union’s only officially English-speaking country. Or maybe not.” iStock English Stew – Frank McNally on a meeting of the anglophone world in Limerick
  • Frank McNally
  • June 19, 2019

By the 1920s, the Phibsboro Junction was firmly established as Doyle’s Corner, and is still known as that. Image: Google Street View Turning a corner – Frank McNally on the mysteries of one of Dublin’s more unusual civic honours
  • Frank McNally
  • June 18, 2019

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

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