The Rorys Stories Guide To Being Irish

Author : Rory O'Connor
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717183386
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rory's Stories Guide to Being Irish written by Rory O'Connor and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From weddings and wakes to hangovers, pre-marriage courses, working as an apprentice on a building site, Irish summers, the Irish abroad, smart-arse barmen, more hangovers, aspiring TDs, the GAA lotto man, going on the hop from school and Irish mammies. Based on the hugely successful Rory's Stories Facebook page, The Rory's Stories Guide to Being Irish is a laugh-out-loud guide to the most important things about being Irish.'Hilarious! A wonderful compilation of all that makes up being Irish and being proud of it. Bravo!' Brendan O'Carroll, Mrs. Brown's Boys

Author : Rory O'Connor
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717179230
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA written by Rory O'Connor and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the popular Facebook page, which regularly reaches over 500,000 people, The Rory's Stories Guide to the GAA sends up a certain kind of fan, one who is obsessed with the GAA calendar, the local club and the county team above everything else. This hilarious guide to the GAA covers it all: bleep tests; post-game hangovers; forty-way WhatsApp conversations; that lad always doing his hamstring; fair-weather Dub supporters; old men who've umpired every parish game since the Civil War; Marty Morrissey's forehead; ham sandwiches; dirty corner-backs; more hangovers; impenetrable Kerry accents; weight training followed by ten pints; pretending to understand tactics; lobbing it up to the big lad; prima donna corner-forwards. Infinitely recognisable and laugh-out-loud funny, it's the perfect read for GAA fans.

Author : Rory O'Connor
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 071719731X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rory's Stories Lockdown Lookback written by Rory O'Connor and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dodgy home haircuts and Tiktok dance crazes to banana-bread baking and checkpoint cheek, even in lockdown social media star and comedian Rory O'Connor found plenty of opportunities to keep everyone laughing. Filled with Rory's trademark banter and observational gems, this hilarious and infectious (!) lockdown lookback will make you nostalgic for outdoor dining in the rain and loo roll shortages!

Author : Rory O'Connor
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717189961
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rory's Story written by Rory O'Connor and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody thought Rory O'Connor would make it – written off as 'thick' at school, he struggled to find a career he felt he could succeed in. When a hot tip led to a win on the horses it was the beginning of a dangerous spiral into a gambling addiction that gnawed away at his self-esteem even further. How did the man who thought he had nothing to live for go on to become a stand-up comedian selling out venues around Ireland and reaching 800,000 people through his social media platforms? This is Rory's Story. Told with his trademark humour, this straight-talking memoir is a book for anyone who wants to be inspired by an ordinary man's mental health journey.

Author : Tom Coyne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592405282
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Course Called Ireland written by Tom Coyne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hysterical story bestseller about one man's epic Celtic sojourn in search of ancestors, nostalgia, and the world's greatest round of golf By turns hilarious and poetic, A Course Called Ireland is a magnificent tour of a vibrant land and paean to the world's greatest game in the tradition of Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods. In his thirties, married, and staring down impending fatherhood, Tom Coyne was familiar with the last refuge of the adult male: the golfing trip. Intent on designing a golf trip to end all others, Coyne looked to Ireland, the place where his father has taught him to love the game years before. As he studied a map of the island and plotted his itinerary, it dawn on Coyne that Ireland was ringed with golf holes. The country began to look like one giant round of golf, so Coyne packed up his clubs and set off to play all of it-on foot. A Course Called Ireland is the story of a walking-averse golfer who treks his way around an entire country, spending sixteen weeks playing every seaside hole in Ireland. Along the way, he searches out his family's roots, discovers that a once-poor country has been transformed by an economic boom, and finds that the only thing tougher to escape than Irish sand traps are Irish pubs.

Author : Rory O'Neill
Publisher : Hachette Books Ireland
ISBN 13 : 1444798553
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman in the Making written by Rory O'Neill and published by Hachette Books Ireland. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Today, as I walked through Dublin city centre, I saw gay couples casually holding hands as they strolled, and kissing each other goodbye at bus stops in the late spring sunshine, and it seemed to me that all was changed, changed utterly ...' - From the Prologue, written three days after Ireland became the first country in the world to embrace marriage equality through popular vote Woman in the Making is the unforgettable story of how a little boy from a small Irish village in the west grew up to become Panti Bliss, Queen of Ireland and voice of a brave new nation embracing equality, all the colours of the rainbow and, most of all, a glamorous attitude.

Author : Rory O’Connor
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473583462
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When It Is Darkest written by Rory O’Connor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 Winner of the 2021 BPS Popular Science Book Award 'Read this incredible book. I wept and I learnt' - Prof Tanya Byron 'This book comes from the heart' - Roman Kemp 'Compassionate, personal and thought-provoking' - Prof Steve Peters When you are faced with the unthinkable, this is the book you can turn to. Suicide is baffling and devastating in equal measures, and it can affect any one of us: one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Yet despite the scale of the devastation, for family members and friends, suicide is still poorly understood. Drawing on decades of work in the field of suicide prevention and research, and having been bereaved by suicide twice, Professor O'Connor is here to help. This book will untangle the complex reasons behind suicide and dispel any unhelpful myths. For those trying to help someone vulnerable, it will provide indispensable advice on communication, stressing the importance of listening to fears and anxieties without judgment. And for those who are struggling to get through the tragedy of suicide, it will help you find strength in the darkest of places.

Author : V.S. Alexander
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1496740181
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irishman's Daughter written by V.S. Alexander and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the wild, romantic, northwest coast of Ireland during the mid-19th century, The Irishman’s Daughter pits Briana, her father, and sister, against a reckless English landlord and a plague that will kill and displace millions of Irish people. Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining scraps of land. But when the potato crop falls prey to a devastating blight, families Briana has known all her life are left with no food, no resources, and no mercy from the English landowner, who seems indifferent to everything except profit. Rory Caulfield, the hard-working young farmer Briana hopes to marry, shares the locals’ despair—and their anger. There’s talk of violent reprisals against the callous gentry and their agents. Briana’s studious older sister, Lucinda, dreams of a future far beyond Mayo. But even as hunger and disease settle over the country, killing and displacing millions, Briana knows she must find a way to guide her family through one of Ireland’s darkest hours—toward hope, love, and a new beginning.

Author : Rory Gleeson
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9781473634107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rockadoon Shore written by Rory Gleeson and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rockadoon Shore is terrific' Roddy Doyle 'One of the most exciting Irish storytellers to have emerged in years' Gavin Corbett Cath is worried about her friends. DanDan is struggling with the death of his ex, Lucy is drinking way too much and Steph has become closed off. A weekend away is just what they need so they travel out to Rockadoon Lodge, to the wilds in the west of Ireland. But the weekend doesn't go to plan. JJ is more concerned with getting high than spending time with them, while Merc is humiliated and seeks revenge. And with long-ignored tensions now out in the open, their elderly neighbour Malachy arrives on their doorstep with a gun in his hands . . . Honest, moving and human, Rockadoon Shore is a novel about friendship and youth, about missed opportunities and lost love, and about the realities of growing up and growing old in modern-day Ireland. Highly energetic and tensely humorous, it heralds a new and exciting voice in contemporary Irish fiction.

Author : Geoff Wallis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Irish Music written by Geoff Wallis and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Irish traditional music as its starting point and focus, this guide traces the music's history, describes its fundamental elements and provides a detailed directory of all the key singers, musicians and bands, listings of venues, festivals, record companies, and instrument makers.