Frank McNally

Frank McNally

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

Lips Sealed - Frank McNally on a mysterious facial feature, the philtrum

Now it’s just a vestige of evolution, with no apparent function.

Cast a Cold Eye – Frank McNally on the monuments, republican and otherwise, of Tipperary

Divorced of importance it later acquired, was original War of Independence event worthy of pride?

Our Man in Havana – Frank McNally on a forgotten Irishman honoured in Cuba

James Joseph O’Kelly was also, for a brief period, a man of two wives

Charlie Tango – Frank McNally on revisiting the Charlie Hebdo massacre 10 years on

In keeping with a low-budget production, the movie was projected onto a make-shift screen

Martin Mansergh risked career to progress peace process in early stages, funeral hears

‘Unambiguously republican’ politician understood unionist tradition, mourners in Tipperary hear

Immaculate reception: How an Irish priest helped turn the Pittsburgh Steelers into winners

Frank McNally: Relationship between Fr John J Duggan and team’s original owner was founded on a misunderstanding

Howya Heid? - Frank McNally on a visit to one of Glasgow’s toughest pubs

We had only dropped in for the proverbial one drink

Waking Dream – Frank McNally on having intimations of mortality at a book launch

There may even have been ghosts present, as I was reminded by the attendance of some of my maternal cousins

Frank McNally: My life as a civil servant in 1980s Dublin

Frank McNally on the Department of Social Welfare in Not Making Hay – The Life and Deadlines of a ‘Diary’ Farmer

Here it was again, the phantom Yeats quote in an Irish pub in Perpignan

This same legend turned up on the Dublin City Marathon medal two years ago

Skipping pages – Frank McNally on trawling through the discarded library of a lifetime

A full-blown bibliophile, the deceased was said to have had up to 100,000 volumes

For the Birds – Frank McNally on an encounter with Dublin’s Pigeon Man

When I got a word in edgeways, finally, I wondered why Dublin’s rapacious seagulls never came near him

Blades and Fades – Frank McNally on New York’s ‘Lads of Kilkenny’ and a Joycean Fenian in Paris

Washington Irving was a native New Yorker who had no known connection with Kilkenny

The Word made fresh: One enlightening billboard outside a church in Mount Merrion

A friend from south Dublin suggested I write something about a church billboard where Foster Avenue meets the Stillorgan dual carriageway

Tourists beware: supposed new ‘traditions’ at Dublin statues

As with tour guides inventing stories, here’s hoping the phenomenon is not on the rise

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