New visitor centre at Custom House explores a wealth of history
The Custom House is seen as one of the most important buildings in Dublin
Margins of Terror – Frank McNally on the Irish language editor and arch-pedant Risteard Ó Foghludha
An Irishman’s Diary
Racing Uncertainty – Frank McNally on myths, mistaken memories, and the Ascot Gold Cup
An Irishman’s Diary
Scotch Broth – Frank McNally on whiskey-soaked summer schools, the Lough Ness monster, and Flann O’Brien’s poetic mews
An Irishman’s Diary
Arts&Antiques: Rare Jack B Yeats book in sale for bibliophiles
Private library of John Wyse Jackson goes under the hammer at Purcell auctioneers
No Irish Need Apply – Frank McNally on the national hang-up about capital punishment
An Irishman’s Diary
Moore’s Maladies – Frank McNally on Myles na gCopaleen and the great Irish Times letters row of 1947
An Irishman’s Diary
Third Degree Byrnes – Frank McNally on an unexpected revelation in Myles na gCopaleen’s favourite pun
An Irishman’s Diary
Grandeur with magical gardens on Blackrock terrace for €2.75m
The internal proportions at 2 Avoca Terrace are remarkable and the wow factor continues into the garden
The Irish Times view on artists’ incomes: pay them fairly
The arts are poorly paid in Ireland – and many artists are regularly asked, and expected, to work for free
How Flann O’Brien can help you get a better social life
Step one: Loan your copy of the Third Policeman to someone. If they don’t like it, ditch them
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
Theatre: a new generation takes on the words of Flann O’Brien
‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories
Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann) review: Nostalgia, booze and tale tales
This directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-in
Erwin Schrödinger in Dublin: Physicist, womaniser, fugitive
The great physicist moved to Clontarf in 1939 on Dev’s invitation with his wife and mistress
‘The day after the US election, I just sat down and sobbed’
In conversation: Helen O’Leary and Claire Walsh
Relics of Dublin’s rare oul’ times ready for a new era
Houses with colourful history in Portobello and on Waterloo Road come to market
Blasket cases – An Irishman’s Diary on the national talent for stoicism in the face of misfortune
Like all Flannoraks, I look forward to An Béal Bocht’s imminent TV debut, via TG4, on Christmas Day
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
Memorabilia auction includes mystery ‘hand of history’
Whyte’s ‘Eclectic Collector’ lots shed light on Ireland’s social, political and economic past
Hopes for nothing lost in Flannslation as ‘Flannoraks’ gather in Salzburg
Biennial academic conference on Flann O’Brien in Austria shows his global appeal
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