Margins of Terror – Frank McNally on the Irish language editor and arch-pedant Risteard Ó Foghludha

An Irishman’s Diary

In the name of the fada: a much-politicised punctuation mark

An Irishman’s Diary

A name to be reckoned with – Frank McNally on the importance of being Tadhg

An Irishman’s Diary

Brat’s tale: Frank McNally on the curious evolution of the Irish word for ‘flag’

How ‘brat’ worked its way down in the world

Quare de Lune – Frank McNally on half-boiled potatoes, full moons, and Myles na gCopaleen

‘And there it was – the white circle in a slice of a half-boiled potato’

At Home and Away with the Fairies – An Irishman’s Diary on the globalisation of a Hiberno-English phrase

A loan, all a loan – An Irishman’s Diary about long-term book borrowing