Nappy days – An Irishman’s Diary on 50 years of the disposable nappy
‘Neat in appearance, comfortable in use’
An Irishman’s Diary about ‘Altman the Saltman’
Was this the real-life Leopold Bloom (or one of them)?
Diplomatic posting – An Irishman’s Diary about Anthony Trollope, the British ambassador, and the GPO
Historic venue
What’s new, fussy cat? An Irishman’s Diary on Jerry, the choosy feline
You can lead a cat to water, but you can’t make it drink
An Irishman’s Diary on the musical tastes of Arthur Griffith
Shared love of music brought Griffith and wife together
Skate of the art – An Irishman’s Diary about futuristic transport
Automatic skateboard is the wheel deal
A warrior for peace – An Irishman’s Diary about Frank Sheehy-Skeffington
Pacifist, feminist and all-round radical
Sticky wicket – An Irishman’s Diary on Arnold Bax, 1916 and the ‘googly’
English composer was friend of Padraig Pearse
An Irishman’s Diary on a rebel on roller-skates, Joseph Mary Plunkett
Favourite pastime of 1916 leader
An Irishman’s Diary on politicians and the press
Allegations of bias or favouritism have a long history
An Irishman’s Diary on dark deeds on the penal colony of Norfolk Island
Irish got it worse than others on notorious island
An Irishman’s Diary on football legend Danny Blanchflower
Inspirational figure for Spurs and Northern Ireland
An Irishman’s Diary about war poet Julian Grenfell
‘I adore war. It’s like a big picnic without the objectlessness of a picnic.’
An Irishman’s Diary about what happens when Dublin’s rental bikes and the city’s cobbled streets collide
Rough ride
An Irishman’s Diary on a carnival’s summons to spring
The ‘fête des gilles’ in the Belgian town of Binche
O’Donnell Abú – An Irishman’s Diary about an apocryphal apostrophe in the Killiney house dispute
Clan-do attitude
Strings attached – An Irishman’s Diary on Ireland and the harp
A new history of Ireland’s national instrument
An Irishwoman’s Diary on David C Broderick, an Irish-American voice against slavery
Pivotal figure in history of California
Call the Boolean Operator – An Irishman’s Diary on language, logic, and the marriage referendum
Now and Venn
Running for dear life – An Irishman’s Diary about Bressie, Michael Harding, and Tarmac
An antidote to the springtime blues
Pole Star – An Irishman’s Diary about the famine relief work of Pawel Strzelecki
Ireland’s debt to Poznan’s native son
An Irishman’s Diary on a year that had me in stitches
How I and my excellent teams of expert elves have fought off impertinent health assaults
The crack with ‘craic’ – An Irishman’s Diary about the nation’s favourite word
You see craic these days even in the ‘Spectator’ magazine, that bastion of British conservatism
Cartoons for the Cause – An Irishman’s Diary about the ‘Lepracaun’ magazine
The cartoonist wing of the nationalist movement
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