I regret to inform you of further triumph in the annual Theatrical Cavaliers gala quiz. The organisers made a fatal mistake by placing supersub Frank McNally at our table - as you can see he didn't even break concentration after we'd already won. Simon Carswell

This Thursday, May 2, the Eire Society of #Boston presents its Gold Medal award to #irish writer
Fintan O'Toole at The Parker House, where literary luminaries Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow + Dickens once held court. The Eire Society of Boston The New York Review of Books
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At the World Journalists conference in Korea, debate rages on.

Beer drinkers of the world unite. With colleagues from (left to right) Cambodia, Vietnam, Turkey, India, and Azerbaijan during an extracurricular session of the World Journalists Conference in South Korea.

At first glance I thought it was a stuffed toy. But no, it’s an actual dog

Four-storey library in a shopping mall, Suwon. You might need specialist climbing equipment to reach some of the books, but it looks great.

A bit hazy but that’s North Korea out there, the other side of one of the most heavily minded stretches of no-man’s-land on earth.

Approaching one of the world’s most fiercely disputed border areas. No sign of Crossmaglen anywhere.

I wasn’t born with a silver chopstick in my mouth but I’m trying.

The full Korean

If it’s Monday this must be Seoul.

Me on the Irish rebel origins of an extravagantly named Australian cricketer, J.E.B.B.P.Q.C. Dwyer.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri…

“Now I know it’s half past something, but what? Despite myself, I have been drawn into an unfolding drama.” irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri…

'Murder Most Confusing'
Frank McNally on Flann O’Brien’s murder weapon, Henry Marsh’s finger, and a relocated Joycean plaque

Frank McNally The Irish Times

irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri…

“Gettysburg. Wow.” -Donald Trump and also Jon Stewart’s 7th grade book report

⁦The Irish Times⁩ team trying not to look smug after winning a table quiz in Foley’s pub last night. Of course we returned the prize-money because the event was in aid of the very brave journalists in Gaza. Well done ⁦emma o kelly⁩ & ⁦NUJ⁩ on organising.

Hands of history – the digital disenhancement of Fr Mathew irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri…

Miniature monster – me on the fall and rise of the “baby Guinness” irishtimes.com/opinion/an-iri…

Left Dublin 2.20pm, arrived Clones a minute to throw-in & found a parking space here. Hope @Monaghangaa get a similar result after what looks like being another tight affair.