McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

A British author explores western Ireland—one eponymous pub at a time—in this "unfailingly sharp, good-humored, and offbeat" travelogue (Kirkus Reviews).

Despite the many exotic places Peter McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother's homeland. In McCarthy's Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west coast to Donegal in the north. Traveling through spectacular landscapes, but at all times obeying the rule, "ne...