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  • McCarthy's Bar

    A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

    by Pete McCarthy ...
    A British author explores western Ireland—one eponymous pub at a time—in this "unfailingly sharp, good-humored, and offbeat" travelogue ( Kirkus Reviews).Despite the many exotic places Peter McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother's homeland. In McCarthy's Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west coast to Donegal in ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • A Doctor's War

    An "engrossing" memoir of a Royal Air Force doctor's World War II experiences, from surviving Dunkirk to witnessing Nagasaki ( The Irish Times).As an RAF medical officer, Aidan MacCarthy served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was interned by the Japanese in Java, where his ingenuity helped his fellow prisoners through awful conditions. While en route to Japan in 1944, his ship was torpedoed, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Road to McCarthy

    Around the World in Search of Ireland

    by Pete McCarthy ...
    Pete McCarthy established one cardinal rule of travel in hisbestselling debut, McCarthy's Bar: "Never pass a bar withyour name on it." In this equally wry and insightful follow-up,his characteristic good humor, curiosity, and thirst for adventuretake him on a fantastic jaunt around the world in search of hisIrish roots -- from Morocco, where he tracks down the unlikelychief of the McCarthy clan, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • One Man and His Bike

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  • The Pie At Night

    In Search of the North at Play

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  • Holidays

    From bestselling author William McInnes, a book about the languid, unending holidays of summer; it's about going away and staying at home, about sunburn, seagulls, family and friends.Remember those long, languid holidays when the only decisions to be made were what to pack in the Esky and who should get the front seat on the drive to the beach?Let William McInnes reignite your nostalgia for ... Read more

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  • Tour De Ireland (a Cycling Fan's Ride Around Ireland)

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    Tour de Ireland (A cycling fan's ride around Ireland) is the story of a cyclist's return to his native country. It is an attempt to re-engage with home and re-discover the ancient land of saints and scholars that is Ireland. The journey, which takes place during the 2012 Tour de France, is also an engagement with the sport of cycling both past and present. This is by no means a book solely for the ... Read more

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  • Our Man In Hibernia

    Ireland, The Irish and Me

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    When the Kids Left Home, so Did They. the Hilarious Adventures of a Couple Who Made World Travel a Way of Life.

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