Stranger than Science Fiction – An Irishman’s Diary about Philip K Dick, Arthur C Clarke, and Flann O’BrienFri Nov 25 2016 - 17:26
Duel mandate – An Irishman’s Diary about the romantic misadventures of Norman LeslieThu Nov 24 2016 - 01:00
A Lark Under the Park – An Irishman’s Diary about Myles na gCopaleen, the Phoenix Park tunnel, and drinkWed Nov 23 2016 - 01:00
Ireland surrender 14-day winning streak but lose no respectIreland left all black and blue after a brutally intense gameSat Nov 19 2016 - 21:05
The Game of the Name – An Irishman’s Diary about a new study of British and Irish family namesSat Nov 19 2016 - 01:00
Moving picture – An Irishman’s Diary about the original film version of the Battle of the SommeFri Nov 18 2016 - 01:00
President’s name traced to Vikings but Kenny proves elusiveStudy traces linguistic history and distribution of 45,000 British and Irish surnamesFri Nov 18 2016 - 01:00
Frank McNally’s Big Regret? I was about 25 before I gave up on the dreamApart from anything else, a few years in university would have eased the transition from freedom to workThu Nov 17 2016 - 06:00
Shifting the balance of horsepower – An Irishman’s Diary about cycling in the cityThu Nov 17 2016 - 01:00
Famous Blue Joyce – An Irishman’s Diary on Leonard Cohen’s debt to DublinThe late singer’s work was peppered with Joycean imagery and referencesWed Nov 16 2016 - 01:00
Armageddon outta here – An Irishman’s Diary on Donald Trump and the apocalypseFri Nov 11 2016 - 01:00
A Famous Win for the All-Browns – An Irishman’s Diary about superstition and sportswearThu Nov 10 2016 - 01:01
Japes with the Japanese: An Irishman’s Diary about sake and SwiftAn Irish DiaryFri Nov 04 2016 - 01:00
Touching coincidence: An Irishman’s Diary about the possible link between Harry Kernoff and Mr SpockThu Nov 03 2016 - 01:00
Frank McNally: The Dublin Marathon in 26.2 paragraphsA winding but pacey narrative featuring Joe Dolan, Oscar Wilde and the Eiffel TowerSun Oct 30 2016 - 19:36
The unkindest cuts: An Irishman’s Diary about Keats, Raleigh and book reviewersSat Oct 29 2016 - 01:00
An Irishman’s Diary about German first World War ace Oswald Boelcke, and Leslie PorterFri Oct 28 2016 - 01:00
Bums on Seats – An Irishman’s Diary about the problem of substandard audiencesSat Oct 22 2016 - 01:01
Cypriot Saints and Sinners – An Irishman’s Diary about St Hilarion and Lawrence DurrellFri Oct 21 2016 - 01:01
Wilde Oats – An Irishman’s Diary about William Rowan Hamilton’s early flirtations with poetryThu Oct 20 2016 - 00:01
Algebra Cabra – An Irishman’s Diary about William Rowan Hamilton’s Eureka momentWed Oct 19 2016 - 01:01
Splitting Hairs and Infinitives – Another reading from Frank McNally’s Stylebook of LeviticusSat Oct 15 2016 - 01:01
Why ‘The Second Coming’ has never gone away – An Irishman’s Diary on yet another triumphant year for Yeats’s most quotable poemWed Oct 12 2016 - 01:01
Fifty years a TD for Enda Kenny? It’s no more unlikely than a Mayo All-IrelandTaoiseach’s decision to run again might ease daughter Aoibhinn’s political inheritanceWed Oct 12 2016 - 01:00
Of Tims, Taigs, and Tenement-Scots – An Irishman’s Diary on the changing face of insultsThu Oct 06 2016 - 01:01
October Surmise – An Irishman’s Diary about one of the year’s most poetic monthsSat Oct 01 2016 - 00:01
When our level best is not enough – An Irishman’s Diary about why Americans can’t understand drawsFri Sept 30 2016 - 01:01
Harrow-on-the-Hill – An Irishman’s Diary about Patrick Kavanagh’s (mostly) natural highsSat Sept 24 2016 - 01:01
Homer Sweet Homer – An Irishman’s Diary about George Chapman, Keats, and Myles na gCopaleenFri Sept 23 2016 - 00:01
Come Out With Your Heads Up – An Irishman’s Diary about the Siege of JadotvilleWed Sept 21 2016 - 00:01
In Search of Lost Time – An Irishman’s Diary about the French republican calendarSat Sept 17 2016 - 01:01
An Irishman’s Diary about the polio epidemic that delayed the All-Ireland finals of 1956Fri Sept 16 2016 - 01:01
The Name is Bond: Oliver Bond – An Irishman’s Diary on one of Dublin’s best-known flat complexes, now 80 years oldThu Sept 15 2016 - 01:01
Yours, Sincerely and Otherwise – An Irishman’s Diary on the collected letters of Flann O’BrienSat Sept 10 2016 - 01:01
Tunnel Visions – An Irishman’s Diary about a road trip through the Cork and Kerry mountainsThu Sept 08 2016 - 01:01
Censors and sensibility – An Irishman’s Diary about ‘The Irish Times’ in wartimeWed Sept 07 2016 - 01:01
Hills and Duhallows – An Irishman’s Diary about a road-trip in Limerick and CorkSat Sept 03 2016 - 01:01
The Forgotten Diaspora – An Irishman’s Diary about the greening of Latin AmericaFri Sept 02 2016 - 01:01
