Unholy Sabbaths – Frank McNally on the Phoenix Park Murders and other Irish Times ‘Sunday Specials’

An Irishman’s Diary

Blanket Attack – Frank McNally on how James Joyce put the text in textiles (or vice versa)

An Irishman’s Diary

Slice of Galtee – Felix M Larkin on William O’Brien’s pioneering journalism

An Irishman’s Diary

Selective recall – Frank McNally on the forgotten history of Leitrim

An Irishman’s Diary

Ciarán Murphy: Born on the right side of the border for Mayo, Colm Boyle will be missed

A thunderous footballer, the Devitts clubman hails from a curious part of the GAA world

Home Guard – Frank McNally on the Bodyke Evictions of 1887

An Irishman’s Diary

Sammon of wisdom – Áine Ryan on the heroic struggles of the Widow Sammon

An Irishwoman’s Diary

Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle

32 people were killed on Bloody Sunday, or died later of wounds received that day

Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of wounds received

Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company

Bloody Sunday 1920: The 32 killed at home, at Croke Park, in Dublin Castle or who died later of their wounds

Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company

Number of the Beast – Frank McNally on auspicious dates, inauspicious horses, and the theme of fertiliser in Flann O’Brien

An Irishman’s Diary

‘Short skirts and strong boots’: The pioneering feminism of Anna Parnell

Anna Parnell led a generation of women in the 19th century and inspired another in the 20th

The Dublin-born journalist who became a foreign correspondent in Imperial Russia

EJ Dillon counted Tolstoy and Dostoevsky among his personal aquaintances

A meeting of minds – An Irishman’s Diary on Brendan Ó Cathaoir and the diary of Elizabeth Mathew Dillon