An Irish Diary

Caustic New Yorker had little time for spiritualists, abolitionists, organ grinders, mosquitoes and snobs, either

Charles de Gaulle (1837–1880) anticipated Patrick Pearse by half a century

Irishman’s Diary: There is a piece of the Menorcan road network that is forever Irish

Away from US president’s golf course, romantic ruin stands as reminder of dark days and dreams

In 1966, a trapper named Dafal came across a Filipino tribe apparently untouched by modernity

American newspaper giant’s ties to Ireland stretch back to a childhood visit to Dublin

Prized medieval work of art will be on show in London until July next year

You could hear anything from punk rockers to right-wing moralisers campaigning against the availability of condoms

Money was raised by public appeal for memorials to those who fought in the South Irish Divisions of the first World War

Sometimes, former prisons can have a very interesting second life

Examples of the stucco worker and marble inlayer’s pieces can be found in Áras an Uachtaráin and Hugh Lane Gallery

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

A longstanding historical debate highlights the extent of Irish involvement in the American labour movement

You can read all about it thanks to him

It’s the double whammy that cuts deepest – a mixture of misogyny and a perceived power shift

The popular and charismatic politician vanished near his holiday house in 1967, giving rise to a raft of conspiracy theories

If we genuinely wish to identify a meaningful connection between Ireland and Turkey, we should look instead to the early 20th century

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

The jig that welcomed General Humbert to Co Mayo can still be heard in Kilcummin and Amsterdam

Fanlight statuettes were a nod to politics, insurance policies and personal tragedies

New generation is transfixed by The Meeting on the Turret Stairs

An amphibious invasion boded ill after a foray to liberate some 1798 spirit

Being cool means embracing the tactility of earplugs, remote conversations and stony-faced unfriendliness

Kind gesture in Paris led to unexpected glimpse of Empress Josephine’s roses

She took an exotic name and wed the unlucky-in-love Hollywood heart-throb Rudolph

Short poem in The Irish Times was too obscure for some, but Beckett’s time in Saint-Lô warranted a verse with deep meaning

Magheracloone holds the only Irish deposits of gypsum, while the French capital was extensively mined to make plaster of Paris

This ferociously busy route was clearly not built with pedestrians in mind and hitchhiking didn’t seem safe to attempt

People smile and nod when you say you have tickets to the games in Birmingham or even the Olympics

Little did I know that in the editor’s eyes the page I was overseeing was the most important in the newspaper

‘It’s definitely getting brighter, for sure – it feels like we’re going back in time’

Mayan folk beliefs mingled with Leonora Carrington’s inherited Celtic ones in a heady concoction

Location in the Liberties ‘approved as part of a wider community regeneration project intended to provide a permanent market and community space’

Closure was provided 41 years later when a driver from the Westmeath town got me to a screen showing the All-Ireland final

Irate passengers and an unexpected demand that he converse in Irish prevented D O’Donoghue from answering the phone that day

The football final between the two descended into violent chaos when the teams met in 1926

This dramatic change in the landscape around Dublin had somehow passed me by

Plus a suspicious detail about a banshee’s ominous cries

The Taliban have banned women’s sport, while Cricket Ireland received €70,000 to promote gender equality

The competition’s storied past takes in the nascent Irish State, Shergar and changing times