An Irishman's DiaryMY RECENT confident prediction that Twitter would soon go the way of Second Life and the dodo is not, I admit, looking goodWed Feb 24 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWRITTEN under the cover “Drapier”, one of Dean Swift’s more famous pamphlets was a protest against Wood’s Halfpence: a currency…Sat Feb 20 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT SEEMS to be the fate of Fianna Fáil’s junior government partners to be described in canine termsFri Feb 19 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE TERM “meteoric” is applied to many writers whose genius burns brightly for a short time and then goes outThu Feb 18 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's Diary‘PROPERTY SELLER goes into matchmaking business”: (Headline in The Irish Times Property supplement, February 11th, over a story…Wed Feb 17 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryYOUR STARTER FOR 10. Who is this, writing to his new girlfriend? “I came in at half past elevenFri Feb 12 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryAS WE’VE NOTED here before, there is a purgatorial or limbo-like quality about airports: occupying as they do an intermediate…Thu Feb 11 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT IS A remarkable fact that in 50 years of the Irish Times student debates, only one of the competition’s 140 or so winners, …Wed Feb 10 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI’VE HEARD OF worrying signs and signs of the times, but I think the one pictured qualifies as a bit of bothSat Feb 06 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN ANCIENT ROME there was a group of religious officials called augurs, whose job was to interpret the opinion of the gods on…Fri Feb 05 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT IS ONE of the more beloved clichés of our time that top professional football players, especially in England, are overpaid…Thu Feb 04 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHERE ARE certain jobs that, in a mixed gender household, will always devolve to the senior maleWed Feb 03 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI DON’T KNOW if there can ever be such a thing as a “national architecture”, and a nationalist one seems an even odder idea. …Fri Jan 29 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI DON’T KNOW if there can ever be such a thing as a “national architecture”, and a nationalist one seems an even odder idea. …Fri Jan 29 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWE WERE talking here last week about the unfortunate Irish Christian name, Fechin, and the double misfortune that might arise…Thu Jan 28 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWE WERE talking here last week about the unfortunate Irish Christian name, Fechin, and the double misfortune that might arise…Thu Jan 28 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiarySEÁN Ó RIADA is rightly credited with sparking the latter-day revival in Irish traditional music, a subject we’ll come back to…Wed Jan 27 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiarySEÁN Ó RIADA is rightly credited with sparking the latter-day revival in Irish traditional music, a subject we’ll come back to…Wed Jan 27 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiarySOME TIME ago, this column played a small and entirely accidental role in the campaign to honour Ireland’s first aviator, balloonist…Sat Jan 23 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiarySOME TIME ago, this column played a small and entirely accidental role in the campaign to honour Ireland’s first aviator, balloonist…Sat Jan 23 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN 20TH century Moscow, they had the Lubyanka: the infamous KGB headquarters and prison into which many a political dissident…Fri Jan 22 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIN 20TH century Moscow, they had the Lubyanka: the infamous KGB headquarters and prison into which many a political dissident…Fri Jan 22 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryAT THE start of 1950, George Orwell’s reputation was rising faster than any English-language writer of his generationThu Jan 21 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryAT THE start of 1950, George Orwell’s reputation was rising faster than any English-language writer of his generationThu Jan 21 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF the features of recent decades here has been a big revival in the use of old Irish namesWed Jan 20 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryONE OF the features of recent decades here has been a big revival in the use of old Irish namesWed Jan 20 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT EXCHANGE of letters about the depiction of our national flag on the side of Ryanair aircraft reminded me of a story from…Thu Jan 14 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHAT EXCHANGE of letters about the depiction of our national flag on the side of Ryanair aircraft reminded me of a story from…Thu Jan 14 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's Diary‘IS BLUE the new black?” asked the headline on a recent blog entry by the BBC’s US correspondent.Wed Jan 13 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's Diary‘IS BLUE the new black?” asked the headline on a recent blog entry by the BBC’s US correspondent.Wed Jan 13 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryOUTSIDE THE Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the concept of Gross National Happiness has been slow to catch on: partly, no doubt, …Sat Jan 09 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryOUTSIDE THE Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, the concept of Gross National Happiness has been slow to catch on: partly, no doubt, …Sat Jan 09 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryBARRING unforeseen events, the Chilean author Isabel Allende will start a new novel later todayFri Jan 08 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryBARRING unforeseen events, the Chilean author Isabel Allende will start a new novel later todayFri Jan 08 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHATEVER ELSE it achieves as the world’s new highest building, the Burj Khalifa has given a big credibility boost to one of the…Thu Jan 07 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWHATEVER ELSE it achieves as the world’s new highest building, the Burj Khalifa has given a big credibility boost to one of the…Thu Jan 07 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryFINE GAEL TD Shane McEntee was on radio yesterday complaining about the Government’s tardiness in salting icy roads: apropos …Wed Jan 06 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryFINE GAEL TD Shane McEntee was on radio yesterday complaining about the Government’s tardiness in salting icy roads: apropos …Wed Jan 06 2010 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE JURY is still out on the question of who killed Cock Robin, but I see that a former British environment minister, Michael…Sat Dec 19 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryWE WERE discussing here recently Ireland’s theft of the song Dirty Old Town , a crime on which the many fingerprints include …Fri Dec 18 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryI’M PUZZLED by a highlighted quotation about Neil Young in our Arts review of the year yesterday, viz: “His O2 show was a powerful…Thu Dec 17 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryJUST AS IT was once the land of saints and scholars, Ireland also used to be able to boast that it had never produced an economist…Wed Dec 16 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryINTRODUCING his book Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola , Gary Dexter juxtaposes two quotations by George Bernard…Sat Dec 12 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryIT’S A PARADOX, given our international image as the “Fightin’ Irish”, that the citizens of this country are among the most stoical…Fri Dec 11 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryTHE Co Down-born novelist and poet, Amanda McKittrick Ros, once predicted she would be would still be talked about in “1,000 …Wed Dec 09 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryBEARING in mind the success of “craic”, I’m thinking of launching an Hibernicised version of the Icelandic word “ kreppa ”: meaning…Sat Dec 05 2009 - 00:00
An Irishman's DiaryPROMPTED by alert reader Darach MacDonald, I hereby apologise to emigrants everywhere for my inadvertent use in a column earlier…Fri Dec 04 2009 - 00:00
