Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive?
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Tim Bradford. Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive?
Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? TRAVELS IN IRISHRY
Tim Bradford
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive? Camden Tube to Camden Lock
IRISH MYTHS & LEGENDS 1 How to be Irish. 1 Why you Need to be Irish
2 Positive Affirmations
3 Diet
4 Exercise
5 Making Friends
6 Sex
7 Release the Leprechaun Within
8 Dye Your Hair Ginger
FINNEGANIALondon
On a Clear Day You Can See Fulham Football Ground Hammersmith to Ireland (in my head)
IRISH MYTHS & LEGENDS 2 Hey, Mister, Got any Tayto?
Superquinn Sausages
Irish Butter
Ring Cheese
Chocolate Kimberleys
Red Lemonade
VIKING TOWNDublin
Visions of Beer and Loathing on the Road to Holyhead Hammersmith to Dublin
Notes on a Cultural Tour of Dublin Dundrum to Temple Bar
The Book of Kells
The Martello Tower at Sandycove
Maud Gonne
Charlie Haughey
The Divorce Referendum
Gate Theatre
Sharon Shannon and Donal Lunny
The Peace Process
Ireland 1–Italy 0 World Cup ’94
Dana
The Informal Urchin-gurrier Choir of Hill 16 Gaelic Sports
Dublin, Fair City of Vikings, Buskers and Soaring House Prices (and the Celtic Tiger is rather unimaginatively mentioned too) Twenty-four quietish hours in Dublin. 2 am
9 am
9.15 am
10 am
10.45 am
11 am
11.30 am
12.30 pm
Past-it Musicians
Populist Politician
1 pm
2.10 pm
2.20 pm
3 pm
3.30 pm
4 pm
5 pm
6 pm
7.30 pm
9.45 pm
11 pm
12 pm
IRISH MYTHS & LEGENDS 3 A Brief History of the Leprechaun
ORANGE COUNTYMidlands
Hungover Adventures with the Sea-Urchin-Moustachioed Guard The Curragh, Co. Kildare
Cupán Tae, Cáca Milis, Mo Ghrá Tú (A Cup of Tea, a Slice of Cake, I Love You) Adare, Co Limerick
Looking for an All-encompassing Theory of the Universe in a Hurling Match Limerick to Thurles
Why is there Orange in the Irish Flag? East to west, Portarlington, Co. Laois
The Search for the Celts Trim, Tara and Newgrange, County Meath
Dunphy v. Charlton: the Celtic/Anglo-Saxon Dichotomy as Played Out by Me and My Friend, Kev Football
IRISH MYTHS & LEGENDS 4 Some Ancient Sagas of Magical Creatures. Finbarr, the Lobster of Moral Outrage
Sean, the Dublin Bay Prawn of Neutrality
Kevin, the Carp of Storytelling
SHANEWORLDWest
Lost Highway – A Clever Use of the Film Title to Describe the Little Roads around Cork City County Cork
Fungie the Dolphin, the Johnsons of Enniskillen, the Talking Dogs and the American Poet Dingle, Co. Kerry
Is Irish Music Any Good? Doolin, Co. Clare
The Day the Earth Stood Still Limerick to Galway
Conversations with the Future Foreign Correspondent of the Irish TimesThe Galway Arts Festival
What is an ‘Arts’ festival?
What is a festival?
Review – The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh
Dancing at Lughnasa
The Spanish Conceptual Art Pieces
An afternoon with a future foreign correspondent of the Irish Times
Review of Mike Peters in pub
Miss Galway Competition
Alone on Yeats’s Mountain with Only a Compass and an Egg Mayonnaise Sandwich for Company Sligo to Benbulben round trip
W. B. Yeats v. Daniel Donnell – a Cultural Conflict Around Sligo
Who’s closest to his mother?
Who’s more in touch with Irish culture?
Who would be best at running a hotel?
Who’s better in a blandish country music idiom?
Who has reinstated traditional Celtic culture into the fabric of Irish national identity?
The Ian Paisley Impersonators Talk about Weapons Derry City Walls
Thinking in Four-part Harmony is a Scary Thing to Contemplate Mullingar to Moate
IRISH MYTHS & LEGENDS 5 Heritage Ireland
Leprechauns in snow domes
Plasticy Celtic swirly pendants
Amusing Guinness T-shirts
Tweed flat caps
‘Our Lady’ figurines
MARYLANDSouth
Smelly Stuff, God, Moving Statues and Space Jockeys Ballinspittle, Co. Cork
The Art of the Storyteller Blarney, Co. Cork
Selling a Car in Potato Town Youghal
Youghal Survival Kit
Music
Places to visit
The Beach Tramore, Co. Waterford
Born to be Wild (Now and Again, if I’m in the Mood) Irishness to Englishness
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Appendix
The Arsenal Tavern
The Auld Shillelagh
The Bank of Friendship
Biddy Mulligan’s (the Pride of the Coombe)
The Blackstock
The Blarney Stone
The Boston Arms
Bodhrán Barneys
Callaghans
Clancys
Filthy McNastys
Finnegan’s Wake
Finnegan’s Wake
The Kingdom
Liam Og’s
Liberty’s
Lord Nelson
Maggie’s
McGoverns
Moll Cutpurse
Molly Malone’s
North London Tavern
O’Hanlons
The Old Bell
The Ould Triangle
O’Neills
O’Neills
O’Neills
Pelican
Powers
The Queen
Quins
The Rose
Rosie O’Grady’s
Scruffy Murphy’s
Scruffy Murphy’s
Shannons
The Toucan
The Twelve Pins
Waxy O’Connors
Winchester Hall Tavern
Irish Crossword
Helpful Irish Maps
Index
Solutions
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
About the Publisher
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To the Irish people who
have changed my life
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Smelly Stuff, God, Moving Statues and Space Jockeys Ballinspittle, County Cork
The Art of the Storyteller Blarney,County Cork
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