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Item Details
Title:
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OUR MAN IN HIBERNIA
IRELAND, THE IRISH AND ME |
By: |
Charlie Connelly |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£7.49 |
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ISBN 10: |
0748115072 |
ISBN 13: |
9780748115075 |
Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
Pub. date: |
2 September, 2010 |
Edition: |
Digital original |
Description: |
* A hilarious, witty and insightful new book that lays bare contemporary Ireland, from the author of the bestselling ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING |
Synopsis: |
Each year on St Patrick's Day eighty million people around the world celebrate their Irish ancestry. Millions more don leprechaun hats and down pints of Guinness in the annual high-fiving of Ireland and the Irish. Charlie Connelly was one of them. He thought he had a good idea of what Ireland was all about. He was, after all, practically Irish. He had a bodhran and everything. Then, when he was least expecting it, he went to live there. Our Man in Hibernia follows Charlie's adventures among the Irish. Immersing himself in Ireland's language, music and literature, he learns how closely the rose-tinted image he'd grown up with matches the reality, and explores the land, from the small patch of Connemara bog that changed the world to the Holy Tree Stump of Rathkeale. From defining moments of the country's history - the Great Famine and the Easter Rising - to its quirkier phenomena, such as the National Ploughing Championships and the Rose of Tralee, in Our Man in Hibernia Charlie Connelly paints an evocative, entertaining and witty portrait of Ireland today. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Abacus |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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