Irishology
Subtitle: slagging, junior C football, wet rain and everything else we love about Ireland
By: Ronan Moore ; illustrations Fuchsia MacAree
Contributors: MacAree, Fuchsia, illustrator
Publisher: Gill Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780717168194; 9780717168200
Subjects: Irish wit and humor; Humor; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Who else but the Irish can perform minor miracles with a prayer to St Anthony? Or truly appreciate the medicinal purposes of Flat 7Up? From things you'll only hear and taste in Ireland to tips for surviving any social situation (an Irish wedding anyone?!), Irishology is the ultimate warm, witty and irreverent guide to all things Irish.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title page; Dedication; Contents; Wet rain; Wildly inappropriate speed limit signs; Potatoes; Liga; Tin whistles; Brown bread (aka soda bread); TCP; An Garda Síochána; Wall-papered copybooks; Trad sessions; The Confirmation; Slow sets; Main streets; Black pudding; Red lemonade; The Claddagh ring; Crisps; Turf fires; Slagging; The local; Fungie the dolphin; Junior C football; The '90s weather forecast; Sean-nós singing; Cattle-grids; Fairy forts; Ice-cream vans; Rock shandy; The Lent box; The shamrock; Shifting; Batch bread; Fig rolls; St Patrick's Day parades; 'One more'; Irish mothers.; title: Local legendsRyanair; Sports days; Talking about the weather; Middle politics; Healers; School retreats; Bosco; The rounds system; Flat 7Up; Boiled everything; Kerbs; Giving directions; The bodhrán; Irish wakes; Finding someone in common; The craic; Liveline; Riverdance; The Late Late Show; Lock-ins; Irish fathers; 'Going out' and 'going out-out'; Sunny spells and scattered showers; Sunday lunch; Hurling; Drying the dishes; The RTÉ; Not being able to take a compliment; Chipper chips; Guinness; Mr Freeze; Bed & Breakfasts; The full Irish; Neutrality; Begrudgery.; title: 'An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an leithreas?'Cheese; The Irish passport; The Leaving Cert; Barmen; Strawberries by the roadside; Cheering on our enemy's enemy; Lookers on; The death notices; The Irish summer; The Den; HB ice-pops; Spice burgers; Bringing home the turf; Sharing the deaths; Aer Lingus; The snug; Rounders; Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh; The front room; The stray sod; 'Ah sure'; Spreading slurry; Penneys; The Angelus; Irish weddings; Cemetery Sundays; A schmozzle; Poitín; The Community Games; Stinger Bars (and their friends); 'The ... '; Irish immigration officials.; title: Tea (also pronounced tae!)Irish barbecues; 'Who said mass?'; Cider; Thatched cottages; Big families; John 3:7; Luck; Flashing you the lights; Bacon and cabbage; Lighting a candle; Sally O'Brien (and the way she might look at you); Match-making festivals; 'The state of ... '; Glenroe; A bad pint; The Rose of Tralee; Thirty-three; Blackberry picking; The National Ploughing Championship; Driving miles for cheap diesel; Kerrygold (and who took that horse to France); Farms; Not asking for something; Gaelic football; The Book of Kells; Tractors on the road; The 'Just a Minute Quiz'; title: The amount of words we have for being drunkMass; Set-dancing; Waving to strangers while driving; Irish skin; The odd flutter; Mid-week training; Blessing the car; Ireland's 'other crisps'; Barmbrack; The fields of Athenry; Hallowe'en; Rival supporters sitting together; Going to Confession; Whiskey; Tip the Can; Praying to St Anthony; Sausages; Emigration; Leaving on the immersion; Irish curses; Mams cutting hair; The Irish diaspora; The Late Late Toy Show; Leprechauns; Wind; Irish blessings; The December 8th shopping; The Sacred Virgin picture; Black ice; Irish stew; Battered sausages.