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'It was half past five in the morning as I lurched through the front door of the B&B. Mrs. O'Sullivan appeared just in time to see me pause to admire the luminous Virgin holy water stand with integral night-light, and knock it off the wall. Politely declining the six rounds of ham sandwiches on the tray she was holding, I edged gingerly along the hallway to the wrong bedroom door and opened it.'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 the north. Traveling through spectacular landscapes, but at all times obeying the rule,'never pass a bar that has your name on it,'he encounters McCarthy's bars up and down the land, meeting fascinating people before pleading to be let out at four o'clock in the morning.Through adventures with English hippies who have colonized a desolate mountain; roots-seeking, buffet-devouring American tourists; priests for whom the word'father'has a loaded meaning; enthusiastic Germans who'here since many years holidays are making;'and his fellow barefoot pilgri

Author

Pete McCarthy; Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson McCarthy

Publisher

Thomas Dunne Books

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781466866379

Subjects

Travel, History, Lifestyle

Rating

3.79 / 5 (38 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14