Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive?

The Informal Urchin-gurrier Choir of Hill 16 Croke Park (#ue278dedc-08e1-5a90-a4a7-9948b944b036)

Dublin, Fair City of Vikings, Buskers and Soaring House Prices Twenty-four quietish hours (#u80379ec5-8a20-5463-8370-28a9275b884c)

Irish Myths & Legends 3: Leprechaun (#litres_trial_promo)

ORANGE COUNTY (#litres_trial_promo)

Hungover Adventures with the Sea-Urchin-Moustachioed Guard Kildare (#litres_trial_promo)

A Cup of Tea, A Slice of Cake, I Love You Adare, County Limerick (#litres_trial_promo)

Looking for an All-Encompassing Theory of the Universe in a Hurling Match Limerick to Thurles, County Tipperary (#litres_trial_promo)

Why is there Orange in the Irish Flag? East to west Portarlington, County Laois (#litres_trial_promo)

The Search for the Celts (#litres_trial_promo)

Dunphy v. Charlton Football (#litres_trial_promo)

Irish Myths & Legends 4: Some Ancient Sagas of Magical Creatures (#litres_trial_promo)

SHANEWORLD (#litres_trial_promo)

Lost Highway – County Cork (#litres_trial_promo)

Fungie the Dolphin, Dingle, County Kerry (#litres_trial_promo)

Is Irish Music Any Good? Doolin, County Clare (#litres_trial_promo)

The Day the Earth Stood Still Limerick to Galway, County Clare (#litres_trial_promo)

Conversations with the Future Foreign Correspondent of the Irish Times Galway City (#litres_trial_promo)

Alone on Yeats’ Mountain Sligo to Benbulben round trip (#litres_trial_promo)

W. B. Yeats v. Daniel O’Donnell Around Sligo (#litres_trial_promo)

The Ian Paisley Impersonators Talk about Weapons Derry (#litres_trial_promo)

Thinking in Four-part Harmony Mullingar to Moate (#litres_trial_promo)

Irish Myths & Legends 5: Heritage Ireland (#litres_trial_promo)

MARYLAND (#litres_trial_promo)

Smelly Stuff, God, Moving Statues and Space Jockeys Ballinspittle, County Cork (#litres_trial_promo)

The Art of the Storyteller Blarney,County Cork (#litres_trial_promo)

Selling a Car in Potato Town Youghal, County Cork (#litres_trial_promo)

The Beach Tramore, County Waterford (#litres_trial_promo)

Born to be Wild (Now and Again, if I’m in the Mood) Ireland to Englishness (#litres_trial_promo)

APPENDIX: London Irish pub guide (#litres_trial_promo)

KEEP READING (#litres_trial_promo)

IRISH CROSSWORD (#litres_trial_promo)

HELPFUL IRISH MAPS (#litres_trial_promo)

INDEX (#litres_trial_promo)

SOLUTIONS (#litres_trial_promo)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)

PRAISE (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (#litres_trial_promo)

List of Illustrations (#ulink_6932a233-4cf6-5d08-aadd-3309411f708c)

1 Welcome to Ireland

2 ‘Ireland’

3 Atonal Improvised Alto Saxophone

4 Morris dancing v. Irish dancing

5 Leppy

6 FINNEGANIA

7 Various: potato, wine-man, half-crazed hawker

8 ‘Sure, so what’s this squiggly bit, then?’

9 My Great, Great Grandfather the Horseperson

10 Pseudo-Sean and his Joycean chat-up

11 A dancing ‘Gerry Adams’