Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? - Tim Bradford

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County Tipperary

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

       The Search for the Celts

       Dunphy v. Charlton Football

       Irish Myths & Legends 4: Some Ancient Sagas of Magical Creatures

       SHANEWORLD

       Lost Highway – County Cork

       Fungie the Dolphin, Dingle, County Kerry

       Is Irish Music Any Good? Doolin, County Clare

       The Day the Earth Stood Still Limerick to Galway, County Clare

       Conversations with the Future Foreign Correspondent of the Irish Times Galway City

       Alone on Yeats’ Mountain Sligo to Benbulben round trip

       W. B. Yeats v. Daniel O’Donnell Around Sligo

       The Ian Paisley Impersonators Talk about Weapons Derry

       Thinking in Four-part Harmony Mullingar to Moate

       Irish Myths & Legends 5: Heritage Ireland

       MARYLAND

       Smelly Stuff, God, Moving Statues and Space Jockeys Ballinspittle, County Cork

       The Art of the Storyteller Blarney,County Cork

       Selling a Car in Potato Town Youghal, County Cork

       The Beach Tramore, County Waterford

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

       APPENDIX: London Irish pub guide

       KEEP READING

       IRISH CROSSWORD

       HELPFUL IRISH MAPS

       INDEX

       SOLUTIONS

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       PRAISE

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       List of Illustrations

       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’

      12 Superquinn Sausages

      13 English butter bad, Irish butter good

      14 VIKING TOWN

      15 Tim’s Short- and Long-Term Memory Tank System

      16 Terry’s Short-Term Memory System

      17 Electropop

      18 The Great Lincolnshire Graphic Novel

      19 Various: comedian, armoured car, mad relation

      20 Holyhead

      21 Cultural Tour Icons: Book of Kells, Martello Tower, Maud Gonne, Charlie Haughey, The Divorce Referendum, Gate Theatre, Sharon Shannon and Donal Lunny, The Peace Process, Ireland 1 Italy 0, Dana

      22 Football Types

      23 O’Shea’s

      24 Mad Eyes

      25 Scary Viking

      26 Leprechaun, Firbolg

      27 Jockey

      

      28 ORANGE COUNTY

      29 Barney the Cocktail Maker

      30 Red-faced Beardy

      31 Various: angry short speccy guy, ticket inspector (dead-ringer for a German U-boat commander), two Clare girls, old man

      32 Hurling

      33 Sean McCabe the barber

      34 Yellow Steeple, Trim

      35 Tara

      36 The Celts were tough

      37 Faery Footballer

      38 Jack Charlton

      39 Sean the Dublin Bay Prawn of Neutrality

      40 Kevin the Carp of Storytelling

      

      41 SHANEWORLD

      42 Tractor/pheasant connection

      43 Fungie the Dolphin

      44 Rex and Shaggy

      45 Doolin

      46 ‘Mars!’

      47 The Great Fiddle Mystery

      48 Gort

      49 Can Man

      50 Spanish Conceptual Art

      51 Various: Lorcan Murray, little-girl-next-door bird, anorexic English-looking blonde, shy sales assistant

      52 Benbulben

      53 Posing on some swanky ski resort with Steve Podborski, Bryan Adams and, er, William Shatner

      54 Bus driving

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