Frank McNally

Frank McNally

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

Dead Sails in the Sunset: Frank McNally on the cultural evolution of a Dublin windmill

Liberties tower is getting a second wind with new event space

Sweet and sour: Frank McNally on how Russian brutality brought the Mary cake to Ireland

Henry Spelter, one of the Hungarians who fled his native land 70 years ago, found work at Bewley’s

Free Show: Frank McNally on the liberating power of prison art

Time Well Spent is an exhibition running for a month and including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, textile craftwork and an installation called Reflections From Home

Mr Nobody and a broken vase: Frank McNally on a British Museum accident with historic resonance

In 1845, a young Dubliner visited the museum and committed an act of vandalism that should have earned him permanent infamy

Conversations on a Homecoming: Frank McNally on returning to the Dáil after a 20-year absence

A return to the Dáil press gallery reveals new security arrangements, familiar political rituals and an enduring dress code

Try walking in Patrick Kavanagh’s shoes: one man’s pilgrimage from Inniskeen to Dublin

For Frank Greally, this ‘gratitude walk’ has great historic resonance

Micheál Martin’s feathers ruffled by claims he is ‘playing chicken’ with striking workers

‘Enhanced social dialogue’ offered by Taoiseach more suited to AI summit than public sector unions’ pickets

‘Doubly endangered’ Dublin fanlight horse discovered

The Ringsend property where the figurine stands is up for sale

Darkness into light: Frank McNally on a history-themed quiz in Joyce’s Nighttown

The pub quiz was just around the corner from World’s End, and one of the more famous corners in world literature

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya: Frank McNally on a piece of Route 66 that is forever Irish

Details of how the town of Shamrock acquired its name are somewhat obscured

Another sighting of the lesser-spotted Dublin fanlight horse

A second surviving specimen stands in the window of a Hendrick Street house in Smithfield

Dead Ringer – Frank McNally on a tragic real-life counterpart of a fictional Joycean character

Eveleen Nicolls drowned while trying to save a girl on the Great Blasket in 1909

Autumn reflection: Frank McNally finds poetic cheer in the October gloom

Rereading Patrick Kavanagh’s poem has brought the sobering thought that it may be October in my life now too

Charge of the Fanlight Brigade: a positive sighting of a threatened Dublin species

The horses are not extinct – but whatever did they mean?

Postcards from the Edge – Frank McNally on Samuel Beckett’s newly published German Diaries

Travelling around Nazi Germany, he wrote presciently about war and found inspiration for Waiting for Godot

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