Adolf Mahr: Frank McNally on the confused reputation of an Austrian Nazi in 1930s Ireland
When he tried to resume his old job in Dublin after the war, he was no longer welcome
Thwarted hotel development keeps doors closed at Dublin pub
121 years after Leopold Bloom ‘pushed in the door of the Burton’, public house doesn’t know where it stands
Flying columnist – Frank McNally on a lightning visit to Leeside
He studied me a second, as if trying to assess if I was a Dublin jackeen out to make a feck of him
The Death of Reilly - Frank McNally on the demise of ‘Reilly, Ace of Spies’ 100 years ago
Russian-born intelligence agent who called himself Sidney Reilly, and inspired James Bond, made use of several Irish cover identities
Daily Telegraph’s agony aunt faces a conundrum – a mother worried that her son is turning ‘Irish’
We are well used in this country to visitors outdoing us in the performative aspects of Irishness
‘This is a godforsaken place’: A despairing letter from a garda stationed in Tipperary in 1940
Written in the outpost of Rearcross, the letter is a bleak portrait of human misery worthy of Samuel Beckett
Camera Obscura: An exhibition of ‘secret’ photography at Kilmainham Gaol
The Prisoners’ Lens shows theatrical staged scenes which remind us that the events of 1916 were inspired by playwrights and actors as well as poets
How Nancy Spain became the unlikely heroine of an Irish folk classic
Christy Moore’s haunting song immortalised the woman Nancy Spain
What’s another year? Frank McNally on the rise of a new tautology
Words that were doing a perfectly good job are suddenly deemed to need prefixes
Laughing for Ireland? Frank McNally on Bobby Sands and Kneecap
Sands would surely have approved of the rap band’s success in helping make Irish fashionable with the young
Faithful departure: Frank McNally on a belated first visit to Knock Airport, 40 years on
I had to marvel briefly at its location, on a hilltop bog halfway between Charlestown and nowhere
A rock in a hard place: Frank McNally hunts an elusive ancient monument in Mayo
Natural monolith covered with carvings suggests Croagh Patrick was an object of pilgrimage long before Christianity
Frank McNally: A History of Ireland in a Hundred Hyperboles
A catalogue of 100 colourful expressions, myths, legends and sayings
Old Men of the Canal – Frank McNally on the herons of Percy Place
There is something military-looking about the birds’ appearance
Roots and Branch: Alex Haley’s lesser known Irish heritage
The Roots author’s follow-up novel Queen traces five generations of a second branch of his ancestry back to a town in Co Monaghan