Frank McNally
Chief writer of An Irish Diary, The Irish Times
- Reposted by Frank McNallyHappy 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
- Reposted by Frank McNallyPoolbeg Lighthouse – Frank McNally on the death of a much-loved Dublin barman
- Reposted by Frank McNallyTurbulent 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
- Reposted by Frank McNallyWho fears to speak of ’76? Frank McNally on US Independence, the Catalpa rescue, and the Battle of Little Bighorn
- Reposted by Frank McNally[Not loaded yet]
- And they’re off. The annual mass escape from Dublin Castle, commemorating the real jailbreak of 1592 by Red Hugh O’Donnell & the O’Neill Brothers. Competitors will cover 62km through the night, across the mountains to Glenmalure Valley. That’s if they make it, unlike Art O’Neill, who died en route.
- Reposted by Frank McNallyFrank McNally in fine form: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- Todays column - on leprosy, Leesiders, and a cure for love www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
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- Reposted by Frank McNallyFool’s paradise: Frank McNally on a cliche beloved of obituarists
- Reposted by Frank McNallyA Tale of Two Hospitals – Frank McNally on the architectural dramas of Kilmainham
- Reposted by Frank McNallyThis is a really lovely piece by Frank McNally in the Irish Times on the lost short stories of Connolly - www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- Reposted by Frank McNallyThe National Children's Choir recently performed a version of The Boys Are Back In Town... but with some truly baffling lyrical adjustments. @frankie49.bsky.social tells all: share.google/eM9hmXjHZRUR...
- Reposted by Frank McNallyRewrites and Wrongs: Frank McNally on reinterpreting Thin Lizzy for a new generation
- Reposted by Frank McNallySinners’ redemption: Frank McNally on vampires, Irish music and the Ku Klux Klan
- Reposted by Frank McNallyGood (and Bad) Vibrations – Frank McNally on Vibe for Philo, immersive James Joyce and 4DX Avatar
- Reposted by Frank McNallyHibernian Rhapsody: Frank McNally on the rise of a great football anthem, Sunshine on Leith
- Reposted by Frank McNallyWhy do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
- Reposted by Frank McNallyIrish etymology for the end of the year. "Leopardstown" has nothing to do with leopards, but is a noah spelling for *Leperstown "place for the people with leprosy". But there's more to it. As @frankie49.bsky.social writes, the Irish name of the place is Baile na Lobhar. However, Ir. lobhar.../1
- Reposted by Frank McNallyIn the Valley of the Leppers – Frank McNally on Christmas at Leopardstown Racecourse
- Christmas Day nightfall, Glendalough.
- Reposted by Frank McNally…under musical director Dr John O’Keeffe. Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social reported on the première (www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...). With these 24 examples of the cultural relevance of Medieval Irish Studies, the staff of Early Irish at Maynooth wish everyone a joyful Christmas. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
- Reposted by Frank McNallyFrank McNally on a grand stretch in the evenings, a new Dublin restaurant and ‘Gloomsday’
- Reposted by Frank McNallyCraicing the Case – Frank McNally on the origins of a cultural and linguistic phenomenon
- Somewhere out there is the earliest sunset of 2025. There’ll be a stretch in the evenings tomorrow.
- Reposted by Frank McNallyThe woman who enchanted Proust – Frank McNally on the rise and fall of Gladys Marlborough
- Reposted by Frank McNally‘He never said that’: Frank McNally is tired of hearing a phantom WB Yeats quote
- Reposted by Frank McNallyFighting Farney – Frank McNally on the battle for his hometown’s ‘western front’
- At the Dublin-Monaghan Mafia* Christmas lunch with the great Tommy Bowe. (*officially “Business Network”)
- At the annual commemoration (a little early this year) in Mount Jerome for Professor Ludwig Hopf, a friend and colleague of Einstein, who fled the Nazis for a job in Trinity College Dublin but died suddenly, within months of arrival, on the winter solstice of 1939.
- Also there was Prof Gisela Holfter, University of Limerick, who took the pic.
- “After ordering Joyce to take the transparent white trousers off, Nora complained to her sister: “He’s a weakling, Kathleen. I always have to be after his tail ... Being married to a writer is a very hard life.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- Reposted by Frank McNallyBitter Harvest – Frank McNally on the darker side of farming in Flanders and the Somme
- “We might ask the same about the Cornfields of Carrickmacross, who have long since disappeared from local life and whose colourful surname is now merging back into the landscape on which they once walked.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- Reposted by Frank McNallyReally enjoyed Not Making Hay by The Irish Times’ @frankie49.bsky.social part memoir, part rumination on writing four columns a week for the last couple of decades. Lovely stuff.
- If that’s a seven-foot Christmas tree, I should be a line-out jumper for Ireland.
- Willie Redmond’s grave, Flanders.
- All quiet on the western front.
- Reposted by Frank McNallyRing of untruth – Frank McNally on how the Irish language gave ‘phoney’ to English
- Reposted by Frank McNallyRock of Ages – Frank McNally on the shock of punk turning 50
- November embers, Dublin
- Reposted by Frank McNallyFavorite line so far: "The mother herself was half Irish, on her father’s side, so the teenager was in high-risk group for developing symptoms." (Second-most-favorite: "I might also add in passing that 'Polly Amory' would be an excellent name for an agony aunt.") THANK YOU FRANK McNALLY. 😀
- “We are well used to visitors outdoing us in the performative aspects of Irishness. The Normans started it, becoming famously ‘more Irish than the Irish themselves’ and so launching the Eight Hundred Years of Impressionism.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- This is a godforsaken place’: A despairing letter from a garda stationed in Tipperary in 1940 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- Reposted by Frank McNallyHow Nancy Spain became the unlikely heroine of an Irish folk classic
- Reposted by Frank McNallyFrank McNally: My life as a civil servant in 1980s Dublin
- “Driving up north recently, I passed a mural of Bobby Sands with his famous quotation: “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.” And reflecting on what kids find funny now, I wondered what he would have made of Kneecap.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- Reposted by Frank McNallyLaughing for Ireland? Frank McNally on Bobby Sands and Kneecap
- Reposted by Frank McNallyFaithful departure: Frank McNally on a belated first visit to Knock Airport, 40 years on
- Reposted by Frank McNallyA rock in a hard place: Frank McNally hunts an elusive ancient monument in Mayo
- Reposted by Frank McNallyGreat work here from @frankie49.bsky.social Especially pleased to see MOPE (Most Oppressed People Ever) on the hyperbolic list of Irish history. I'd cast a vote for GUBU (Grotesque Unbelievable Bizarre and Unprecedented) as entry #101 😱
- Reposted by Frank McNallyFrank McNally: A History of Ireland in a Hundred Hyperboles
- Reposted by Frank McNallyOld Men of the Canal – Frank McNally on the herons of Percy Place
- “Despite being born in the same town myself, the astounding fact of Alex Haley’s Irish roots had somehow escaped me until as recently as Wednesday.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- Reposted by Frank McNallyA column from @frankie49.bsky.social that manages to link Festy Ebosele, James Joyce and Wittgenstein, via Connemara www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...
- Reposted by Frank McNallyI seem to have written a buke
- Reposted by Frank McNallyOur Man in Havana – Frank McNally on a forgotten Irishman honoured in Cuba
- Reposted by Frank McNallyCharlie Tango – Frank McNally on revisiting the Charlie Hebdo massacre 10 years on
- Sunrise on the Beckett Bridge, Dublin.
- Reposted by Frank McNallyHowya Heid? - Frank McNally on a visit to one of Glasgow’s toughest pubs
