Book description
Each year on St Patrick's Day eighty million people around the world
celebrate their Irish ancestry. Millions more don leprechaun hats and
down pints of Guinness in the annual high-fiving of Ireland and the
Irish. Charlie Connelly was one of them. He thought he had a good idea
of what Ireland was all about. He was, after all, practically Irish. He
had a bodhran and everything. Then, when he was least expecting it, he
went to live there. Our Man in Hibernia follows Charlie's adventures
among the Irish. Immersing himself in Ireland's language, music and
literature, he learns how closely the rose-tinted image he'd grown up
with matches the reality, and explores the land, from the small patch of
Connemara bog that changed the world to the Holy Tree Stump of
Rathkeale. From defining moments of the country's history - the Great
Famine and the Easter Rising - to its quirkier phenomena, such as the
National Ploughing Championships and the Rose of Tralee, in Our Man in
Hibernia Charlie Connelly paints an evocative, entertaining and witty
portrait of Ireland today.
