Duelling church bells, Zürich.

In the Café Odeon, Zürich, where Joyce & Lenin used to drink circa 1916, albeit at different ends of the bar.

Bumped into an old friend in Zürich

Life imitates art

“Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption…”

@frankie49.bsky.social on St Dunstan, Hiberno-Latin and Visio Tnugdali: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i... Another extremely popular Hiberno-Latin text, Nauigatio St Brendani, is currently available for a great discount at: shop.dias.ie/product/navi...

One to enjoy with a ☕️ today - Frank McNally celebrating 20 years and 3,500 Irishman's Diary columns in the Irish Times 👏 Consistently for me the best read in the paper...and one of the main reasons I subscribe. No pressure @frankie49.bsky.social! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Moody May sky

Summer in Dublin, nearly.

“All changed, changed utterly by the book’s editors. A terrible infelicity is born.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Strained relations – Frank McNally on the usefulness of Irish for keeping track of your cousins

Feel bad about cooking him. Looks like it’s been a rough day already.

“Hours earlier I had watched from the same window an illegally parked car being clamped. I should have known that, whatever about the owner, this would come back to haunt me.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

@frankie49.bsky.social about Hiberno-English "scaraveens", probably a form, with inorganic s- and pronounced with an anaptyctic vowel, of Ir. garbhshíon "rough weather". www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i... Medieval Irish garbṡín is attested as far back as the Late Middle Irish In Cath Catharda: /1

Any portent in a storm: Frank McNally on dogfights, doomsday and a tale of two Dundalks

Road to perdition: Frank McNally on the strange, tragic fate of a Kerry historian in 1920s America

Walpurgis Night: Frank McNally on the superstition of April 30th

Cultural exchange: Frank McNally on the mutual benefits of being an occasional tour guide

Brussels Brouhaha – Frank McNally on trying to make sense of EU capital

Last Post and Chorus: Frank McNally on memories of a long-lost Dublin restaurant

Great win for the good guys in the drumlin derby. #GAA #elclasico

At the start line of a robot half-marathon in China. This one could have a big future in soccer.

“Having notions in the Irish sense is not usually fatal either. The worst it may earn you is an unlimited period of community service (the community service of giving your neighbours something to complain about).” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Green Smoke — Frank McNally on the history of a nationalist tobacco shop, circa 1904 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i... via @frankie49.bsky.social @irishtimes.bsky.social #JamesJoyce #Ulysses

Dearly imparted: Frank McNally on Paddy the philanthropist, the BBC banning of Clannad, and Beckett’s womb with a view

Wilde Romantic Way: Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Oscar’s amorous father

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