Frank McNally

Frank McNally

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

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

‘Am I no longer a child? Are so many of the years past? How quickly they have flown!’

Shore had good reason to reflect on her mortality

Frank McNally on 19th century engineering project that linked Tipperary with ‘civilisation’

Fr Edmond Walsh was a late vocation, having previously worked as a carter

‘So long as these people are here, we’ll never starve’: In the queue for Christmas vouchers at Dublin’s Capuchin Day Centre

The volunteers of Dublin’s Capuchin Day Centre handed out free €50 vouchers for Dunnes Stores to more than 3,000 people

A Passage to Innocence – Frank McNally on an anthology of old school routes remembered

Routes described range geographically from Caherdavin to China

Craicing the Case – Frank McNally on the origins of a cultural and linguistic phenomenon

I also lamented that the compunction to do things for the craic was not yet recognised as a defence in Irish courts

Frank McNally on a grand stretch in the evenings, a new Dublin restaurant and ‘Gloomsday’

Strung-out Joyceans will use any excuse for a hit

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