Today (6 Oct.) is Ivy Day, the anniversary of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell, the ‘uncrowned king of Ireland’. By tradition, a wreath is laid by An Taoiseach to mark the occasion. Read about Ivy Day here from @irishtimes.bsky.social.

By his own standard, Musk has forfeited the public trust.

What a day! We’re launching Flann O’Brien and the Nonhuman AND the call for papers is now *live* for An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins, the 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference, 24-27th June 2025. And, most excitingly, it’s in Strabane! parishreview.openlibhums.org/news/759/

An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins

An Fód Dúchais: Home, Heritage and Origins The 8th International Flann O’Brien Conference Alley Arts & Conference Centre, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 24-27th June 2025 Following succ...

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Red lines – Frank McNally on the little-known story of an Irish translator in 1920s Moscow

Perhaps the greatest legacy of May O’Callaghan’s communist sojourn was a story of enduring friendship and eventually love

“The paradox of his second period in Ireland, if that’s what it was, is that Litvinov was by then carrying 100,000 rubles, proceeds of the 1907 Tbilisi bank robbery, which he, Lenin, and Stalin all helped organise. But he probably did still need to work.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Litvinoff the land – Frank McNally with more on a Russian revolutionary’s Irish past

The plot thickens

Astonished at the numbers who turned out for our Sunday am history festival panel in Dublin Castle print works. Me & Mick Clifford having flashbacks to when this was the venue for the Flood Tribunal. Thanks to him, Caelainn Hogan, & Diarmaid Ferriter for making my questions sound intelligent.

“Before leaving in a hurry, Leopold Bloom gave the restaurant a review that, if repeated on TripAdvisor today, would be a PR catastrophe.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Duke of Hazard – Frank McNally on the literary pubs (and restaurants) of Dublin 2

A new bar and a nod to Joyce

Loving this story! Look Behind You – Frank McNally on the surprising second life of a 1980s suit www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

Look Behind You – Frank McNally on the surprising second life of a 1980s suit

I’m proud that, helped by a long sabbatical, its working career has now spanned over 40 years

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Much Ado About Nothing – Frank McNally on the Shakespearean subtext of a great Anglo-Irish battle that never happened

This month, 425 years ago, marks a pivotal non-event a few miles from Carrickmacross

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