Frank McNally on a Dublin woman’s attempt to assassinate Mussolini, 100 years ago

High on life – Frank McNally on Aldous Huxley, psychedelic drugs and why artists love depicting drapery

Touching diary in the IT Frank McNally: A heart-stopping epitaph on the grave of a little-known teenager www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

“Against strong competition from dead celebrities, the most moving epitaph in Rome’s Protestant Cemetery is on the grave of a little-known English teenager.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

‘That’s the wrong Ireland’: The eternal quest to find a pub showing Czechia v Ireland in Rome

Monday blues

Packed for a picnic, Rome.

Mylesday at the Palace Bar, marking the 60th anniversary of the death of Brian O’Nolan, aka Flann O’Brien, aka Myles na gCopaleen (as another late great newspaper man, Con Houlihan, looks on).

Happy 60th anniversary He was a fine pancake @flannobriensoc.bsky.social @frankie49.bsky.social

Plaques broad and narrow – Frank McNally on Dublin street honours big, small and missing

Born-again poet – Frank McNally on the confused centenary of Frank O’Hara

Pidgeon homed – Frank McNally on the repatriation of an Old IRA man from 1970s London

Theres no place like Rome. Very excited sbout doing this. www.eventbrite.it/e/casa-della...

The Irish airman who survived one of the most dangerous jobs of the second World War

The famous medieval Irish episode(s) of a ship seen flying in the air, retold by @frankie49.bsky.social with a cameo appearance of Prof John Carey (UCC) and an excursion 1890s Texas: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

High-level hyperbolics: Frank McNally on the Irish approach to bigging things up

RIP Dolores Keane, the voice of Ireland m.youtube.com/watch?v=aIU1...

Dublin lamppost

Incroyable #FRAvENG

What a game. Brilliant performance by Ireland. And now, even though I feel very dirty saying this: Come on England!

Ron for your life: Frank McNally on what the late Ron Delany could teach table quizzers

After many near misses, @irishtimes.com finally wins the big annual Dublin Rape Crisis Centre quiz, thanks in part to the late Ronnie Delaney, whose Olympic winning 1500m time (3.41.2) was the tie-breaker.

“During an idle moment at a High Court hearing on the Burke case recently, I found myself wondering about the difference in meaning, if any, between the words ‘shouting’ and ‘roaring’.”

With Francis Brennan at the launch of Frank O’Dowd’s Parody Poems and Prose on Sunday in @booksupstairs.bsky.social

Parking enforcement, Dublin.

Nice to see Liffey sunsets again.

“The High Court it may have been but, as usual, it was not quite high enough for Enoch Burke.” My colour piece from yesterday’s hearing. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

My Dad's definition of an "Irish tenor": a size 12 neck in a size 11 collar. 😄 @frankie49.bsky.social

Voices from the Grave: Frank McNally on the mixed paternal legacy of ‘Irish tenor’ Jeff Buckley

Getting our oar in: Frank McNally on the perils of linguistic imperialism

Haunted by Hamlet: Frank McNally on the sad story of Ireland’s greatest Shakespearean scholar

The Bard of Avon as a ‘fillum’ buff: Frank McNally on Shakespeare’s Oirish accent

We’re gonna need a bigger sign. The meadow of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, after two months rain.

Dublin Bay as seen from Howth Head, as the late February sun makes a shy appearance.

A history of Ireland in descriptions of rain - part 2 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

A History of Ireland in Quotations about Rain. (Part 1) www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Tarred and feathered: Frank McNally on the sinister reputation of Dublin seagulls

Rare solar phenomenon over Dublin - sunset. Can remember the last time I saw one.

Rough diamonds: Frank McNally on a geometric oddity unique to Ulster (and Pennsylvania)

Ulsterman Says No. Frank McNally on the time Danny Blanchflower (born 100 years ago this week) refused to go on This Is Your Life www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Stage IRA Man – Frank McNally on the real and pretend 1916 Rising of actor Arthur Shields

Taxing times: Frank McNally on what links Thomas Kinsella, TK Whitaker and Myles na gCopaleen

‘As Irish as the pigs of Drogheda’ – Frank McNally on rise and fall of street singer Mary Connolly

Pucking for peace: Frank McNally joins the Irish Friends of Canada on a trip to watch ice hockey in Belfast

Happy birthay (sic) and a Happy Saint Biddy's Day to #Irentagebuchstammverfasser @frankie49.bsky.social. Reverse-engineered authenticity is a powerful adjuvant in our quest for meaning. #speirgorm

Poolbeg Lighthouse – Frank McNally on the death of a much-loved Dublin barman

Turbulent priest: Frank McNally on fascism, real and fictional, in 1930s America

“But then, like a Gaeilgeoir reverting to his native Irish, O’Leary lapsed into a way of speaking that, while familiar to us, must have been completely alien to the Tesla and SpaceX owner, not to mention his friend in the White House.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Soft day out there