Resurrected Reverend – Frank McNally on the Irish priest who “did a Reggie Perrin”
Almost a century earlier, a Catholic priest from Sligo had resorted to the same thing
Passage from India – Frank McNally on a Delhi journalist and Joyce fanatic in Dublin for Bloomsday
The heat was already oppressive
Epistolics Anonymous – Frank McNally on a Joycean mystery wrapped in an enigma
He is now tramping around Dublin with two lawbooks under his oxter
Animal Farm – Frank McNally on how “Skin-the-Goat” Fitzharris was radicalised by the killing of a fox
This was bad news for the fox, but also for Fitzharris
Joyce on Trial - Frank McNally on a landmark libel case of 1954
The BBC and the James Joyce libel connection
A Phrase that Passeth Understanding – Frank McNally on a rude biblical euphemism
I don’t recall ever hearing the last verb there mentioned at Mass
As the Crow Squeals - Frank McNally on a mysterious Irish rhetorical device
Men’s coats have gone mysteriously out of fashion in recent years
Only Our Taxis Run Free - Frank McNally on a funny thing that happened on the way to the Goldsmith Festival
Here – give me a tenner back out of that, I tried to insist. But still he refused
Picture this: Frank McNally on the sophistication of French scammers
If this column can’t help him, he fears the quest is a “lost cause”.
Eager achiever: Frank McNally on introducing the beaver to Ireland
They are not only cute and cuddly, they are also good workers
Lives of O’Reilly – Frank McNally on a revelatory history of the north midlands
Book is a meticulously detailed labour of love
Paul Durcan remembered as ‘Ireland’s poet’ at funeral service in Ringsend
Family, friends and locals gather in tribute, pausing at ‘the humpbacked bridge’
Secluded residence – Frank McNally on the challenge of understanding (or even finding) Eileen Gray’s famous French villa
I suppose, as they say, you had to be there. And I haven’t been there yet, only very close