Frank McNally

Frank McNally

Frank McNally is an Irish Times journalist and chief writer of An Irish Diary.

The spat between Elon Musk and Michael O’Leary was more than just a spat

Despite being widely considered a bit of a loudmouth in Ireland, the Ryanair boss has been practising self-deprecation for decades

Who fears to speak of ’76? Frank McNally on US Independence, the Catalpa rescue, and the Battle of Little Bighorn

British army deserter McNally joined the Fenians, which earned him a sentence of penal servitude for life in Australia

The other Lemass shooting: Frank McNally on a dark moment in the life of a future taoiseach

His sister Ciara heard a bang, then saw the child fall, with a fatal wound to the head

Life Imitating Art: Frank McNally on the Art O’Neill challenge, recreating an actual 1592 jailbreak

Confusingly for some of us, the pursuers had set off earlier on Friday night, before the escapees

Terminal Condition – the unfortunate origins of Dublin’s Townsend Street

We are where we are, as the politicians say

Did ‘divine intervention’ on Merrion Street lead to a cure for leprosy?

As with many great discoveries, there was an element of chance involved for Cork-born scientist Vincent Barry

Fool’s paradise: Frank McNally on a cliche beloved of obituarists

Not a day passes when a writer does not note that the deceased ‘didn’t suffer fools gladly’

A Tale of Two Hospitals – Frank McNally on the architectural dramas of Kilmainham

Royal Hospital there was built as home for old and wounded soldiers at time of relative peace

The small patch of Dublin where the Jameses – Joyce and Connolly – passed each other by

Both men had considerably different views on life, but their worlds intersected through writing

Rewrites and Wrongs: Frank McNally on reinterpreting Thin Lizzy for a new generation

I may have been lulled into a false sense of senility by the opening verse

Sinners’ redemption: Frank McNally on vampires, Irish music and the Ku Klux Klan

Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners features trad music and vampirism, and has macabre echoes of a real-life event 100 years ago

Good (and Bad) Vibrations – Frank McNally on Vibe for Philo, immersive James Joyce and 4DX Avatar

Some Lizzy veterans must have worried they’d slipped into the next world

Hibernian Rhapsody: Frank McNally on the rise of a great football anthem, Sunshine on Leith

You might question the wisdom of the ballad’s central metaphor as a guarantor of success in relationships or football

‘Every hip, young thing in south County Dublin seemed to be partying it up at Leopardstown’

Leppers, lepers and the Lep: the racing festival on St Stephen’s Day

Leopardstown races: Faux fur, fake tan and f-f-f-freezing temperatures

The going was yielding, the punters soft-to-heavy after Christmas excess

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