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Wacky Ireland

Wacky Ireland


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Imagine BBC's Countryfile crossed with Channel 4's cult series Eurotrash - and Father Ted! Now imagine it as a book of true stories, from scandalous exposés to charming vignettes of rural life, told by an insider who has travelled the length and breadth of Ireland seeking out the weird, the wacky, the naughty-but-nice and the downright shocking - an outrageous romp through the Emerald Isle, where ancient traditions, strange customs and modern obsessions make lively bedfellows and where people constantly surprise you. Farmers, faith-healers, lovesick bachelors, animal antics, ghosts - this is modern Ireland. You won't find these stories in the tourism brochures, and this book is not for the easily offended, the ultra-conservative or anyone po-faced. But if you've ever drawn a moustache on your local politician's poster, or a willy on the John Hinde postcard donkey, this is the perfect book for your coffee-table, the ideal gift for a foreign visitor - and a poignant memento for an émigré. Welcome to Wacky Ireland - it's stranger than fiction. NEW updated edition includes a list of little-known Holy shrines...chapters on the ancient Fair at Maam Cross, the Goddess Fest at the Gates of Hell, Donald Trump, Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary... more about Loftus Hall, spooks in general, feisty farmers, monster plants, Obama, Elvis, Joe Dolan and the mystery of the Boleyn sisters...an explanation of gaelic terms - and a countryman's guide to "culcher".
About the Author: Award-winning journalist Geraldine Comiskey has spent more than thirty years chronicling all aspects of life. Her first article was published in the Evening Herald when she was fourteen and she went on to write for a wide range of tabloid and broadsheet newspapers and magazines in her native Ireland and the U.K. She has covered everything from poverty and crime to wacky rural festivals and quirky practices (some of which are described in this book). She is based in Ireland but has also lived in Holland and Italy and has travelled widely as part of her job. In the interests of journalistic research, she has had many adventures including 'dunker training' with the Royal Marines, dancing on the wings of a 1930s bi-plane, swimming with sharks and getting set on fire by stuntmen. She has also written several novels. But, as Wacky Ireland proves, the truth is a lot stranger than fiction.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781548401009
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Edition: Wacky True Stories
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 489 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1548401005
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Series Title: Wacky True Stories
  • Sub Title: A romp through the Irish countryside
  • Width: 152 mm

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