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    <body><![CDATA[So here's a book that my wife recommended which was also read and enjoyed by her parents - and not just because of an affinity created by the fact that the McCaffrey family often has their name misheard, mispronounced and mistranscribed as McCarthy.  More likely it's simply that they've all been to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30767183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I decided to pick up this book because I had recently read McCarthy's newer book and enjoyed it.  I didn't like this book quite as much and it also wasn't quite what I was expecting. Based on his description of this book in his other book and the blurb on the back of the book I literally thought tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52060389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Pete McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world. Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41782247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really sad to learn that Pete McCarthy had died. I really felt I was going to spend the rest of my life armchair traveling with him and laugh myself silly. The only book EVER  to have me laughing out loud whilst sitting having a quiet drink. Apart from the humour you take the journey alongside...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35805869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a lot of fun. I didn't know much about Ireland, other than that it was green and pretty and associated with a lot of drinking and friendly people...so it was really interesting learning a little bit more about it, and getting a visual for what the people, culture, and land are like.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49407162">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has been on my shelf gathering dust for yonks so I thought I'd finally give it a go.<br/><br/>It is ok, it's amusing and in places laugh-out-loud funny. McCarthy takes us with him on a seeingly random journey around bits of Ireland in the early 'noughties' (the year 2000 to be exact), his main ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41963947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[F-U-N-N-Y!!! I've traveled in Ireland, so it was fun to read about places that I have been.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a fun book to read. A nonfiction about his adventure through Ireland looking for his roots (his Mother was Irish) and the hilarious stories of the locals and tourist. It serves as a somewhat travel guide. Somewhat because at times he would not tell you where he was for fear the areas would beco...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55549752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A 2000 account of the author's trip through western Ireland, place of his Mother's birth, including visits to every bar bearing his surname.<br/>Wonderful descriptions of the landscape and the people. <br/><br/>Author was born in England of an Irish mother and an English father, and spent every s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70231584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I rarely read bestsellers, but decided to put my snobbish prejudices aside as someone had recommended this to me.   Curse them – it was drivel from start to finish, and only mildly humourous at times (admittedly with one laugh out loud moment).<br/>The character descriptions were all painfully ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73540250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me a little more than 100 pages to start getting into this book. I might not have continued if it weren't for the blood oath I took with my book club to finish every book. After that I seemed to get into the rhythm of his journey and it became quite enjoyable. My favourite quote is, &quot;Fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48465674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was quite fun.  Peter McCarthy had a nice theme going &quot;Can someone who is half Irish and half English, feel like embody Ireland and the Irish culture if they do not reside there?&quot;  To discover this, he decides to do basically a pub crawl down the Western coast of Ireland--sounds ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74392903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a nice read for St. Paddy's day: a travel writer whose only rule is to never pass up a bar with his name on it.  As an added bonus for me, his journey basically re-traces the Harnett-Mashek trek of '06 from Cork to Donegal (including such gems as Cong and Dingle, and such monstrosities as K...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50340422">more...</a>]]></body>
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