Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive?. Tim Bradford
County Tipperary
Why is there Orange in the Irish Flag? East to west Portarlington, County Laois
Irish Myths & Legends 4: Some Ancient Sagas of Magical Creatures
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
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
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