An Irishman’s Diary on dark deeds on the penal colony of Norfolk Island

Irish got it worse than others on notorious island

An Irishman’s Diary on football legend Danny Blanchflower

Inspirational figure for Spurs and Northern Ireland

An Irishman’s Diary on the wonders of Tollymore forest

Gothic curios and astonishing views

An Irishwoman’s Diary on the King of Kilkerrin Castle

A battery fort in Clare

An Irishwoman’s Diary on taking the bus

All aboard for a quirky jaunt

An Irishman’s Diary on Sir Edwin Lutyens and Ireland

A giant of architecture’s links to Ireland

An Irishwoman’s Diary on Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst

On the trail of ‘Rosebud’

An Irishman’s Diary about war poet Julian Grenfell

‘I adore war. It’s like a big picnic without the objectlessness of a picnic.’

An Irishman’s Diary on a shipload of Irish convicts in Australia

The final voyage of the ‘Hive’

An Irishman’s Diary about what happens when Dublin’s rental bikes and the city’s cobbled streets collide

Rough ride

The Full Scottish – An Irishman’s Diary about tourist Edinburgh

The wonders of Dùn Èideann

An Irishman’s Diary on Paul O’Connell and rugby in Rwanda

Hero of the Silverbacks

An Irishwoman’s Diary on ‘Le Un’, a print newspaper with a difference

True to type

An Irishman’s Diary about bad language and bad news

Upset menu

An Irishman’s Diary on the Gallipoli truce

A brief truce in a time of unrelenting slaughter

Changed utterly – An Irishman’s Diary about revisionism and 1916

Edward Kelly’s change of mind

An Irishwoman’s Diary on America by rail

All aboard the Southwest Chief

An Irishman’s Diary on daylight saving time

The history of a bright idea

An Irishman’s Diary on Dublin’s vanishing postal districts

End of an era as postcodes set to arrive

An Irishman’s Diary about the 10th anniversary of a Dublin shooting

Feuds, far between

An Irishman’s Diary on the Belgian refugees of 1914-18

A lingerie legacy of war

An Irishman’s Diary on Faugheen’s leap of the imagination

Jumping churches and horses

An Irishman’s Diary on Arthur Cox – solicitor, senator and priest

From corporate titan to missionary

An Irishman’s Diary on a carnival’s summons to spring

The ‘fête des gilles’ in the Belgian town of Binche

An Irishman’s Diary about horse-racing and Japanese poetry

To Cheltenham on a full tanka

O’Donnell Abú – An Irishman’s Diary about an apocryphal apostrophe in the Killiney house dispute

Clan-do attitude

Strings attached – An Irishman’s Diary on Ireland and the harp

A new history of Ireland’s national instrument

An Irishwoman’s Diary on David C Broderick, an Irish-American voice against slavery

Pivotal figure in history of California

An Irishman’s Diary on Lady Aberdeen

The wife of Ireland’s longest-serving lord lieutenant

An Irishman’s Diary on Elizabeth Mathew, wife of John Dillon

An informative and acute observer

An Irishman’s Diary on pipe smoking

Pipe dreams

Call the Boolean Operator – An Irishman’s Diary on language, logic, and the marriage referendum

Now and Venn

Running for dear life – An Irishman’s Diary about Bressie, Michael Harding, and Tarmac

An antidote to the springtime blues

Pole Star – An Irishman’s Diary about the famine relief work of Pawel Strzelecki

Ireland’s debt to Poznan’s native son

An Irishwoman’s Diary on a one-ship Fenian armada

A gun-running voyage of 1867

An Irishman’s Diary: The Iron 11, executed in France during the first World War

An Irishman’s Diary: Patriot Games – cricket or rugby? a choice no longer

An Irishman’s Diary on a year that had me in stitches

How I and my excellent teams of expert elves have fought off impertinent health assaults

The crack with ‘craic’ – An Irishman’s Diary about the nation’s favourite word

You see craic these days even in the ‘Spectator’ magazine, that bastion of British conservatism

Cartoons for the Cause – An Irishman’s Diary about the ‘Lepracaun’ magazine

The cartoonist wing of the nationalist movement

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