McCarthy's Bar

McCarthy's Bar is the best selling book by travel writer and comedian Pete McCarthy. First published in 2000,[1] the book sold nearly a million copies[2] leading to McCarthy winning Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2002.[2]

Photo of the cover art

The book is often titled McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland.[3]

Plot summary

The book describes a series of trips McCarthy makes to Ireland in the late 1990s exploring his past and family history, as well as documenting how Ireland is coping with changing realities.

gollark: The triangles could reasonably be considered 0 (not actually linear axes), 1 (just one... unit of data?), 2 (they exist in 2D) or 3 (they can vary in three directions, but not freely).
gollark: Yes. Anyway, it is clearly a good* model.
gollark: (note: may not contain 100 axes or things. I did not count them)
gollark: ↓ GTech™ (not actually produced by GTech™) 100-axis gender model.
gollark: Wow, it's like the cool vaguely beeish language I had imagined slightly but not imagined and actually extant.

References
  1. McCarthy, Pete (2000). McCarthy's Bar. Hodder and Staughton. ISBN 0340766050.
  2. Kearns, Martha (9 October 2004). "Award-winning 'McCarthy's Bar' author dies after long cancer battle". Irish Independent. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  3. McCarthy's Bar
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