Synonyms of the Fathers – Frank McNally on the complicated ‘fossil history’ of Irish surnamesAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Feb 22 2022 - 19:12
O’Hare restoration – Frank McNally on the complicated backstory of an American war heroAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Feb 18 2022 - 19:30
Boston wrangler – Frank McNally on Myles, Massachusetts, and Dropkick MurphyAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Feb 17 2022 - 19:01
Troubles shooter – Frank McNally on an encounter with the late PJ O’RourkeAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 16 2022 - 19:01
Pardon my Irish – Frank McNally on rats, bats, and French-baitingAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Feb 11 2022 - 19:30
Shooting Boots – Frank McNally on how ‘the Monaghan Footballers’ of 1922 ended up in HansardAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Feb 10 2022 - 19:01
Scotch Broth – Frank McNally on the case for repatriating the Book of KellsAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 09 2022 - 19:01
Blanket Attack – Frank McNally on how James Joyce put the text in textiles (or vice versa)An Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 09 2022 - 00:01
I of the beholder – Frank McNally on having an existential keyboard crisisAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Feb 04 2022 - 19:01
Love Storeys – Frank McNally on the eccentric but also romantic hotels of ParisAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Feb 03 2022 - 19:01
The book now arriving on Platform 2 – Frank McNally on commemorating Ulysses in a Paris railway stationAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Feb 02 2022 - 19:01
Ulysses for cheats, chapter by chapter (feel free to skip the first three)Frank McNally: Skim, slice and dice James Joyce’s masterpiece, from opening to climaxWed Feb 02 2022 - 05:00
Drumlin Beat – Frank McNally on the search for a Monaghan anthemAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 28 2022 - 19:01
Man of Many Colours – Frank McNally on the great lexicographer and eccentric, Sean the CoatAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Jan 27 2022 - 19:01
Bly’s Spirit – Frank McNally on a pioneering journalist with an Irish sub-plotAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 26 2022 - 19:01
Margins of Terror – Frank McNally on the Irish language editor and arch-pedant Risteard Ó FoghludhaAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Jan 25 2022 - 20:38
Houston, we have a problem – Frank McNally on Percy French’s forgotten collaborator Houston CollissonAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 21 2022 - 19:01
French Connection – Frank McNally on why Percy French may be the real hero of Finnegans WakeAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 21 2022 - 00:01
Recovered Memory – the contrasting tales of two war-torn Jewish familiesAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 19 2022 - 19:01
Half-Life – Frank McNally on the Irish language’s damning diminutiveAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Jan 18 2022 - 20:10
Army offensive – Frank McNally on the decommissioning of an Elvis Costello classicAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Jan 14 2022 - 19:01
Wooden heart – Frank McNally on the dark horse in Joyce’s UlyssesAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Jan 13 2022 - 19:01
On the latchiko – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of a mysterious Irish insultAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Jan 12 2022 - 19:01
Detective Fiction – Frank McNally on three famous Dublin characters, real and imaginaryAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Jan 11 2022 - 19:01
Face the music – A new, deeply personal documentary on the life of Seán Ó RiadaAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 23 2021 - 19:01
Tibb’s the Season – Frank McNally on the patron saint of things that never happenAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 22 2021 - 19:01
Pen portrait – The 1922 diary of one of Seán Keating’s ‘Men of the South’An Irishman’s DiaryTue Dec 21 2021 - 20:01
Selective recall – Frank McNally on the forgotten history of LeitrimAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 16 2021 - 19:01
‘A garda and soldier killed in a shoot-out. Heroes, but not anyone I knew. Then the phone rang’An Irishman’s Diary: Frank McNally on a sombre visit to McGahern CountryWed Dec 15 2021 - 19:31
Long day’s journey into Leitrim – Frank McNally on revisiting the scene of a 1983 tragedyAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Dec 14 2021 - 19:01
Future Imperfect – On Old Moore, Animal Farm, and Murphy's LawAn Irishman’s DiarySat Dec 11 2021 - 02:00
Holiday home – On the rise and soft landing of the Holy House of LoretoAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Dec 10 2021 - 01:30
Indian File - On the mysterious origins of a notorious quotationAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 08 2021 - 19:25
Reflections on Revolution - A French account of the War of IndependenceAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Dec 07 2021 - 19:00
Hedge schooled: the lure of suburban privet for well-oiled writersAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Dec 03 2021 - 19:30
Egyptology and Dublin music halls – the many careers of BelzoniAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Dec 02 2021 - 19:41
Canal Bank Murder: the case of Patrick Kavanagh’s attempted ‘assassination’An Irishman’s DiaryWed Dec 01 2021 - 19:41
Poet in suburbia: A memoir about Patrick Kavanagh’s Stillorgan springAn Irishman’s DairyTue Nov 30 2021 - 19:41
Barbadian Banishment: The forgotten Irish of the world’s newest republicAn Irishman’s DiarySat Nov 27 2021 - 16:47
Harboured Fugitive: On wartime, Patrick Campbell and ‘lapidary crap’An Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 26 2021 - 14:51
Harte of the Rowl: a new book about the epic Frank Harte song collectionAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Nov 24 2021 - 19:00
Bottoms Up: On the mysterious origins of a global fashion crazeAn Irishman’s DiaryTue Nov 23 2021 - 19:00
Middle-class Spread: On the expansion of Glasnevin and other property trendsAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 19 2021 - 19:00
Fat chance: How Boris Johnson made his waistline a political issueAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Nov 18 2021 - 09:49
Art, families and the Holocaust: An evening learning from Tomi ReichentalAn Irishman’s DiaryFri Nov 12 2021 - 19:46
Banty’s Inferno: a Monaghan opera I just might write inspired by ElsewhereAn Irishman’s DiaryThu Nov 11 2021 - 19:00
Guts and garters: A Joycean treasure hunt and an infamous murderAn Irishman’s DiaryWed Nov 10 2021 - 19:00
