Bloomsday was a sporadic, boozy and ill-mannered affair before becoming an annual event in 1994
In 1954 Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin embarked on a drunken pilgrimage including public urination on Sandymount Strand
Anthony Cronin
Irish artist Michael Kane: ‘Patrick Kavanagh did nothing else but create art. And that was my ideal’
The Project Arts Centre founder, who is marking his 90th birthday with a solo show, is a firm believer in the idea that art truly matters. He lives fully surrounded by it
Margins of Terror – Frank McNally on the Irish language editor and arch-pedant Risteard Ó Foghludha
An Irishman’s Diary
The year of Ulysses: 2022 marks centenary of Joyce’s experimental masterpiece
Beloved by millions, incomprehensible to millions more, the novel is now firmly embedded in Irish culture
Poetic Parishes – Frank McNally on a new book about Baggotonia and the new Kavanagh museum in Inniskeen
An Irishman’s Diary
Racing Uncertainty – Frank McNally on myths, mistaken memories, and the Ascot Gold Cup
An Irishman’s Diary
‘He and I, always by chance’ – Lara Marlowe on Samuel Beckett and Albert Giacometti
An Irishwoman’s Diary
Future Imperfect – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh’s 1950s vision of the year 2021
An Irishman’s Diary
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin receives 2020 Maths Week Ireland award
Dr Ní Shúilleabháin praised for raising public awareness of maths
Young man in a hurry (x2): Frank McNally is misled by a ‘dangling modifier’
When the start of a sentence loses touch with the end
Publiners: the best literary pub crawl you’ve never heard of
‘In reality, it was a boozier Bloomsday organised by the cast of The Inbetweeners’: a Dubliners tour of Dublin pubs
The best of Eileen Battersby, from Tolstoy to Paul Simon
Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more
Bernard Loughlin made Annaghmakerrig ‘an inclusive, non-judgmental, thrilling place’
Rosita Boland recalls the thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Colm Tóibín walks the ‘intense, haunted’ streets of Dublin
The city is full of ghosts ... in the house where Wilde grew up, the library where Yeats studied
Frank McNally on a Brexit-flavoured ‘Waiting for Godot’
Soft Border, Hard Beckett: An Irishman’s Diary
The Phantom Flann – An Irishman’s Diary about the framing of Brian O’Nolan for a photograph he wasn’t in
O’Nolan spent his career pretending to be other people. And sometimes even the other people were not who they were supposed to be
JP Donleavy: a glorious freedom
He was part of the Dublin bohemia that stopped Ireland succumbing to complete stultification
JP Donleavy obituary: acclaimed author of ‘a bawled-out comic song of sex’
The Westmeath resident and son of Irish parents felt no sentiment towards Ireland
Why we should stand up for Aosdána this Bloomsday
The artists’ association should not be attacked on the grounds of value for money
RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good-natured show
Open submission process and 600 artworks guarantee good – and puzzling – surprises
Portrait of an artist reveals a painter not a poet
Lot at upcoming auction tuns out to be self-portrait not portrait of Anthony Cronin
Anthony Cronin: a man of achievement
Few writers could rival his versatility or claim such influence as adviser to two Taoisigh
Anthony Cronin remembered as the ‘complete, consummate man’
Michael D Higgins among those to attend funeral of Irish poet who died aged 88
Tributes to Anthony Cronin highlight privately kind man
Publisher Dermot Bolger reflects on encouragement visible from teenage years
Anthony Cronin: last link to Dublin’s bohemian literary world
Tributes paid to poet’s part in setting up Aosdána to help artists and writers
Colm Tóibín on that fine writer Anthony Cronin
Cronin was a fine critic who lived the interior life of the mind with grace and style
Eileen Battersby: When Anthony Cronin dismissed me as an idiot
Complete and formidable literary man whose intelligence never overpowered his art
Fintan O’Toole: Anthony Cronin, a true man of letters
But his standing as a public intellectual is coloured by his relationship with Haughey
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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