Howya Heid? - Frank McNally on a visit to one of Glasgow’s toughest pubs

“I don’t expect to be a conscious participant at my own wake when the time comes, but I had a sneak preview of that event while attending a book launch last week.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

I seem to have written a buke

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and sky. (Me on a slipway in Oban, Scotland, as pictured by my son Daniel.)

Skipping pages – Frank McNally on trawling through the discarded library of a lifetime

On the corner of Hope and Waterloo.

In deepest Glasgae

For the Birds – Frank McNally on an encounter with Dublin’s Pigeon Man

Blades and Fades – Frank McNally on New York’s ‘Lads of Kilkenny’ and a Joycean Fenian in Paris

✨Mark your calendars✨ If you are in Dublin 24 September be sure attend the launch of long-time Flaneur and Irish Times columnist Frank McNally's 'Not Making Hay: The Life and Deadlines of a 'Diary' Farmer'. Top shelf pun, @frankie49.bsky.social!

Gorgeous

If you go down to the woods: Frank McNally on a long dark night of no soul in Stradbally

Tour de farce: Frank McNally on the dubious ‘facts’ Dublin tourists get told

Mellow guitar and a polite cyclist (“Sorry bro”), Dublin.

Dedicated to the one I hate: Frank McNally on how a book inscription came back to haunt Patrick Kavanagh

Street furniture, Dublin.

Happy Independence Day of Ukraine. We owe it to the thousands defending the country today. Fad saoil daoibh go léir 💙💛

A "thank you" bouquet for @frankie49.bsky.social 😄

Field Study – Frank McNally on the night a ‘sputnik’ crash-landed in rural Wexford

Frank McNally is in great form, mastered the diary without going mad - perhaps a first. ‘A breakthrough in the case of my stolen Dublin Bike and the subsequent €150 fine’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

A daisy with a doctorate? Frank McNally on the enrolment of ragwort in the rewilded lawns of Trinity College

Ballet Go Backwards – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh’s short-lived career as a dance librettist

Long Day’s Journey Into Night – @frankie49.bsky.social on Monaghan's only All-Ireland final appearance. The programme for the 'last battle of the civil war' between Monaghan and Kerry in the All Ireland football final of 1930 features in 'The GAA Covered'. irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri…

The Irish caminos: Climbing the ‘passage of the birds’ - a Connemara rival to Croagh Patrick Frank McNally on an ancient Connemara pilgrimage, once suppressed by the church but now happily revived

Murder most vulgar: Frank McNally on an infamous case of the 1820s

Boyne Companions – Frank McNally on why the road from Dublin to Slane lies mainly on a plain (allegedly)

Sunset on the river Boyne. Slane.

Clearly not everyone knows how he killed old Philip Mathers. @craigclunas.bsky.social

Hot Wheels - Frank McNally on the mystery of why anyone would steal a Dublin Bike

Belfast Bride - Frank McNally on the Irish wife of man who dropped US atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Dublin dusk

Red light district, Dublin.

A Portrait of the Artist as not a Jung Man. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Dark skies, light rail, Dublin.

One of the snuggest snugs in Dublin: Smyth’s, Haddington Road. Alas, now in line to be demolished. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...?

Frank McNally on the closure of Baker’s pub in Kill of the Grange - a pub that Flann O'Brien drank in - and the possible presence of the man himself in photo from Dun Laoghaire Cycling Week. Standing in the door of the pub, though, not exchanging molecules with a racer... @frankie49.bsky.social

I hadn’t heard the expression ‘Cat Melodeon’ since I left Cork in 1975. Then, I come across it twice in a day. In Niall Williams’ “Time of the Child” and here. 👇 Frank McNally gives a masterclass. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/schr...

“Q. What, paradoxically, did the losers not do today, even though everyone could see they were here? A. Turn up.” My catechism of GAA cliché (now with fewer typos). #allirelandfinal www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...?

Frank McNally on the Irish legacies of a Swiss psychologist "Doctor Jung (the Swiss Tweedledum who is not to be confused with the Viennese Tweedledee, Dr Freud) amuses himself at the expense…of ladies and gentlemen who are troubled with bees in their bonnets.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Frank McNally writing about Richard Ellmann writing about James Joyce. Excess with prudence - way to go.

Baked into a Corner – Frank McNally on the demise of a Dublin landmark Brian O’Nolan frequented the pub in his younger days www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

“In what pressurised GAA-style circumstances did God create the universe, before resting? A six-day turnaround.” Me on a catechism of GAA cliché (with apologies to Myles na gCopaleen). www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

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Pleasant surprise reading a story attributed to my granadad in this weekend's An Irishman's Diary. Thanks, @frankie49.bsky.social, I hadn't heard this one before.

Cork bet and the hay saved #gaa #hurling

What's in a (place) name? @frankie49.bsky.social on Cork's little piece of Tipperary www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

A sunlit cloud amid the grey.

Bastille Day starting early at Chez Max.