Bally-aric Island: Frank McNally on feeling surprisingly at home in Menorca
Irishman’s Diary: There is a piece of the Menorcan road network that is forever Irish
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Frank McNally: Trump Tower? Doonbeg Castle’s turbulent history and mystery hoard of gold
Away from US president’s golf course, romantic ruin stands as reminder of dark days and dreams
Fascinating tale of modern-day cavemen was early lesson in fake news
In 1966, a trapper named Dafal came across a Filipino tribe apparently untouched by modernity
Tycoon king of the castles: Magnate Hearst built pleasure-domes from California to Galway
American newspaper giant’s ties to Ireland stretch back to a childhood visit to Dublin
A leisurely visit to the Bayeux tapestry when it was still in Normandy
Prized medieval work of art will be on show in London until July next year
When pirates ruled the waves: recalling the golden era of radio in Cork
You could hear anything from punk rockers to right-wing moralisers campaigning against the availability of condoms
The Great War: ‘The heroic dead of Ireland have every right to the homage of the living’
Money was raised by public appeal for memorials to those who fought in the South Irish Divisions of the first World War
Cork’s Kilmainham: ‘It’s a 1916 site because Thomas Kent was executed there’
Sometimes, former prisons can have a very interesting second life
In search of Pietro Bossi: The Italian craftsman shrouded in the mystery of his life in Dublin
Examples of the stucco worker and marble inlayer’s pieces can be found in Áras an Uachtaráin and Hugh Lane Gallery
A chance encounter with Nelson’s Pillar in Kilkenny
Once the tallest Doric column in the world, the remains of the O’Connell Street monument are now arranged in a circle in walled gardens
McGuire vs Maguire: Who was the real Irish founder of America’s Labor Day?
A longstanding historical debate highlights the extent of Irish involvement in the American labour movement
Legacies of the printing pioneer Johannes Gutenberg linger everywhere
You can read all about it thanks to him
Now that I’m in my 60s, some people are only short of patting me on the head
It’s the double whammy that cuts deepest – a mixture of misogyny and a perceived power shift
Harold Holt, the Australian prime minister who disappeared while swimming
The popular and charismatic politician vanished near his holiday house in 1967, giving rise to a raft of conspiracy theories
The nagging question of Ottoman help during the Great Famine
If we genuinely wish to identify a meaningful connection between Ireland and Turkey, we should look instead to the early 20th century
Rock on: Kevin O’Sullivan gets a much sought-after tour of Kerry’s Skellig Michael
Coming down was a problem, with the dreaded possibility that my fear of heights resulting from my aunt dangling me by the legs over the Cliffs of Moher as a boy would return
Dance to the Music of Time – Frank McNally on a forgotten Irish-American revolutionary
The jig that welcomed General Humbert to Co Mayo can still be heard in Kilcummin and Amsterdam
The mystery of a once ubiquitous Dublin symbol
Fanlight statuettes were a nod to politics, insurance policies and personal tragedies
Stairway to Heaven – Frank McNally on how our favourite painting became a TikTok sensation
New generation is transfixed by The Meeting on the Turret Stairs
Pier Pressure: Frank McNally on a night camping at General Humbert’s landing spot
An amphibious invasion boded ill after a foray to liberate some 1798 spirit
More than once a friendly hello has been met with silence, even here in Ireland
Being cool means embracing the tactility of earplugs, remote conversations and stony-faced unfriendliness
Season finale: Mae Leonard on a belated trip to a famous French rose garden
Kind gesture in Paris led to unexpected glimpse of Empress Josephine’s roses
Valentino’s Irish Valentine: Frank McNally on the extraordinary Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy
She took an exotic name and wed the unlucky-in-love Hollywood heart-throb Rudolph
How Irish kindness in a war-ravaged French town inspired unknown writer Samuel Beckett
Short poem in The Irish Times was too obscure for some, but Beckett’s time in Saint-Lô warranted a verse with deep meaning
Sinkholes, the unlikely link between Monaghan and Montparnasse
Magheracloone holds the only Irish deposits of gypsum, while the French capital was extensively mined to make plaster of Paris
Frank McNally: My 135km journey in Ireland without a car
This ferociously busy route was clearly not built with pedestrians in mind and hitchhiking didn’t seem safe to attempt
Inside track: Fionnuala Ward on being a spectator at the European Athletics Championships
People smile and nod when you say you have tickets to the games in Birmingham or even the Olympics
Paper cut: Noel Costello on feeling the heat of this newspaper’s former editor Douglas Gageby
Little did I know that in the editor’s eyes the page I was overseeing was the most important in the newspaper
Out of this world: Cian Flaherty on a shared experience of the solar eclipse
‘It’s definitely getting brighter, for sure – it feels like we’re going back in time’
Dredging Moate: Frank McNally on an Anglo-Mexican surrealist with deep roots in Westmeath
Mayan folk beliefs mingled with Leonora Carrington’s inherited Celtic ones in a heady concoction
Soul Traders – Frank McNally on the battle to save a famous Dublin marketplace
Location in the Liberties ‘approved as part of a wider community regeneration project intended to provide a permanent market and community space’
Joni Mitchell glamourised hitchhiking, but she clearly never tried it in Mullingar
Closure was provided 41 years later when a driver from the Westmeath town got me to a screen showing the All-Ireland final
1943 apology letter a stunning glimpse into the chaos faced by Irish railway workers
Irate passengers and an unexpected demand that he converse in Irish prevented D O’Donoghue from answering the phone that day
Space invaders: John Kelly on a historic battle between Carlow town and its neighbour Graigue
The football final between the two descended into violent chaos when the teams met in 1926
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