Give a dogma a bad nameAn Irishman’s Diary about Nazism, the Jesuits, and Flann O’BrienSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:00
The hard life meets La Dolce VitaAn Irishman’s Diary in which Flann O’Brien fans think they’ve died and gone to heavenFri Jun 21 2013 - 09:48
English: the long, short and curlyAn Irishman’s Diary gets to grips with the obscure origins of wordsWed Jun 19 2013 - 17:26
Flann shows his staying power in eternal cityScholars gather in Rome for three-day conference on writings of Brian O’NolanWed Jun 19 2013 - 06:28
A cyclical mysteryAn Irishman’s Diary: How bike racing may the key to Beckett’s most famous characterSat Jun 15 2013 - 00:01
Adjectives that should be bannedAn Irishman’s Diary on why certain words are the enemy of meaningFri Jun 14 2013 - 00:01
The young dog for the smooth roadAn Irishman’s Diary: A humbling experience in MeathWed Jun 12 2013 - 00:01
Keane steals the show as men from Faroe Islands frozen outNot too much here to encourage those romantics who still believe Republic can qualify for World CupSat Jun 08 2013 - 07:10
Journalism of the absurdAn Irishman’s Diary: The Samuel Beckett we’ll never knowSat Jun 08 2013 - 00:01
Moving Swiftly onAn Irishman’s Diary: Dublin celebrates the return of a favourite sonFri Jun 07 2013 - 00:01
A bridge name too farAn Irishman’s Diary: How Flann O’Brien is snubbed in Dublin but at home in RomeThu Jun 06 2013 - 00:01
Forgotten but not goneAn Irishman’s Diary: There may be life in romantic Ireland yet, whatever Yeats thoughtFri May 31 2013 - 00:01
Night of shame when English hooliganism showed its hand at Lansdowne RoadAt the 1995 soccer international, England fans left their mark for all the wrong reasonsWed May 29 2013 - 01:00
Capturing a generalAn Irishman’s Diary: How a Kerry photo agency outmanoeuvred President de Gaulle’s mindersWed May 29 2013 - 00:01
A Carver carvedAn Irishman’s Diary: Remembering a writer who (more than once, perhaps) was cut off in his primeSat May 25 2013 - 01:01
Last word from a lost island?An Irishman’s Diary: The Blasket School of Literature writes another volumeFri May 24 2013 - 01:01
Dancing at the traffic lightsAn Irishman’s Diary: A Dublin suburb goes back to its rootsWed May 22 2013 - 18:23
The paradox of a running legendAn Irishman’s Diary: A demon to compete against, a pleasure to deal withWed May 22 2013 - 01:01
Men and the art of car-wheel maintenanceAn Irishman’s Diary: When in doubt, try kicking the tyreSat May 18 2013 - 01:01
A literary digressionAn Irishman’s Diary In which our hero attempts to experience European Literature Night but loses the plotFri May 17 2013 - 01:01
Elegy written in a city churchyardAn Irishman’s Diary: The last word on a famous lexicographerThu May 16 2013 - 01:01
Alex Ferguson: a winner, a great manager and the biggest bully of his generationI’m not an ABU bigot, but the retiring Manchester United boss personified everything that was wrong with footballSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
Hermits, herbs, and HobbitsAn Irishman’s Diary: On a Clare day, you can see a lotFri May 10 2013 - 01:01
Great run, and the support was pretty good tooAn Irishman’s Diary: Limerick proves a lady for 10,000 race participantsWed May 08 2013 - 06:00
Suffering for artAn Irishman’s Diary: Painful reflections from a night at the concert hallSat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
Aspiration once againAn Irishman’s Diary: Why Northern Ireland needs a H-shaped museumFri Apr 26 2013 - 06:00
Reuse, reboot, recycle: how old Irish computers are starting new lives abroadAn Irishman’s Diary: About 100,000 computers are decommissioned in Ireland every year. One orgnasisation is putting them to good useThu Apr 25 2013 - 06:00
A no-wind situationAn Irishman’s Diary: The politics of Irish weather forecastingWed Apr 24 2013 - 06:00
Dancing for GodotAn Irishman’s Diary: The unlikely friendship of Gene Kelly and Samuel BeckettSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
Meanwhile, in other newsAn Irishman’s Diary: On the lesser-known journalists who died with Francis Sheehy-SkeffingtonFri Apr 19 2013 - 06:00
Race for AfricaAn Irishman’s Diary: How Wesley Korir hopes to benefit Kenya in the long runWed Apr 17 2013 - 06:00
In the court of the Sun King’s sonAn Irishman’s Diary: The fall and rise of a Franco-Irish beautySat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00
Little hills, big hunksThe ups and downs of marketing Monaghan as a tourist destinationFri Apr 12 2013 - 06:00
Fukushima rules and fast-track planningAn Irishman’s Diary: What we could learn from JapanThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
A small church on a big missionAn Irishman’s Diary: St Ethelburga’s rose again from the debris of an IRA bombWed Apr 10 2013 - 06:00
The out-skirts of historyAn Irishman’s Diary: On a forgotten milestone in the liberation of womenSat Apr 06 2013 - 06:00
Raglan Road turn-offCrossing the street to avoid the end of Patrick Kavanagh’s famous love-songThu Apr 04 2013 - 06:00
Running late with the KenyansAn Irishman’s Diary: A stop-over in Nairobi offers an insight into what makes Kenyan athletes tickSat Mar 30 2013 - 06:00
An Irishman’s Diary: How an Offaly priest made himself at home in AfricaUnlikely as it might seem, on the surface, Lusaka is a home from home for Fr Prof Michael KellyThu Mar 28 2013 - 06:00
Austria strike the final chord in chilly thrillerQuestions raised over Trapattoni’s tactics after concession of last-minute equaliserWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:05
In the Name of the (Holy) FatherWhat the new Pope means for the Franks of this worldWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:00
‘Father’ of Zambia sings as Irish wild geese beat African nation to 50-year milestoneExpat group marked its half century recently at an event attended by Kenneth Kaunda, who led country to independence in 1964 and whose first justice minister hailed from ClonmelWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:00
