Spanish Steps – Frank McNally on a sweaty tour of Alicante and Valencia
The visit turned out to be anything but quick
An Irish Diary
The visit turned out to be anything but quick
I sought asylum in the nearest Irish pub
Somehow, the doors of perception failed to open for me
You wouldn’t start from Marseille to get to Spain
People were outraged at harnessing cats to do the work of humans
It was, of course, the French who came up with the notion of a breakfast dessert
Thin Lizzy, Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones were among the many bands who played at Slane
He seems to have an irrepressible urge to shepherd his owner back to shore
Gray had no sympathy for Ireland’s neutral stance
An inquest was later held in Falcarragh, the first of its kind in Ireland without a body presen
If his topics were strange, then his life in Paris was unconventional in the extreme
But Mrs Callender was not a woman to scare easily
He bought the pub for a mere £58,000
Some had been there since dawn, or earlier
Although in his late 60s by then, he was back in the job market
Amid the throng, I spied Nell McCafferty, small in stature but definitely not in personality
The novelist developed lifelong friendships with illustrious figures in the literary world
In fact, like others in the book, the character was a composite of different people
A man of many talents he was not only an architect, but a newspaper columnist as well
As readers of Ulysses will know, Bloom had a bit of a belly
The Thatch pub counted actor Mia Farrow and musicians Seamus Ennis and Planxty among its guests
Clara Adams helped to popularise air travel with the masses.
Almost a century earlier, a Catholic priest from Sligo had resorted to the same thing
The heat was already oppressive
He is now tramping around Dublin with two lawbooks under his oxter
This was bad news for the fox, but also for Fitzharris
Brendan Behan used to quip that in Ireland he was “the leader of the banned”
Newspaper lauded it as a great find, similar to the Pepys diaries
The BBC and the James Joyce libel connection
I don’t recall ever hearing the last verb there mentioned at Mass
Men’s coats have gone mysteriously out of fashion in recent years
Here – give me a tenner back out of that, I tried to insist. But still he refused
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