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Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of
I find my grandfather, buried with Great-Aunt Hannah and Uncle Jack. His surname is spelled 'MacCarthy', with an extra 'a'; like many names here, it's a translation from the Irish, so the 'a' is optional, and may appear and disappear with the generations.
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Pete McCarthy _ The Road to McCarthy: Around
Wherever you go in the world, there will be people to tell you it'll be bigger, stranger, better, more authentic if you take the time to go somewhere else instead; but if you are there, you won't be here. You can only be at one place at a time, and sleep in one bed each night. Sometimes it's good to know where you are when you wake up.
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Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of
The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist's pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter.
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Pete McCarthy _ The Road to McCarthy: Around
I find myself thinking, and not for the first time, just how useful wilderness must be when it comes to burying a troublesome relative, or a complete stranger.
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Pete McCarthy _ The Road to McCarthy: Around
Mind you, he looks a bit out of it, gazing around in confusion, as if his sax player's brain has been removed and replaced with a drummer's.
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Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of
I use the pay phone to call my friend Noel. The last time I was here he took me up a mountainside in Connemara with a seventy-eight-year-old poteen-maker who'd learned his craft as a teenager from his father. We spent the day watching him double-distill brown bog water in two oil drums over a turf fire into something that tasted like the finest malt. Noel acted as interpreter, as the old man spoke no English. Perhaps he'll have another adventure in store for me this time.
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Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of
Never pass a bar with your name on it
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Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of
The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist's pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter. St Patrick's Day, and McCarthy's Bar was heaving.
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Pete McCarthy _ The Road to McCarthy: Around
It's always stimulating to visit new places, acquire fresh knowledge and expand your portfolio of nightmares.
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Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of
If life is a book, then read it while you can.
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Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of
We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.
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Pete McCarthy _ McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of
That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?
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