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Pop Culchie
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- Book Synopsis
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Uncover the oddities and eccentricities at the heart of Irish popular culture and society, providing a kaleidoscopic view of both major and obscure moments in Irish culture
Pop Culchie is a brilliantly funny and affectionate exploration of the wonderfully strange moments that make up modern Irish popular culture, from Daniel O'Donnell and iodine tablets to national moral panics, forgotten pop acts, and those charmingly Irish scandals that somehow become front-page news.
How did one of Ireland's top-selling pop groups vanish into obscurity?
What turned the missing passport of a young Derry girl into a national scandal?
Why does Ireland have a martial arts movie set in Meath?
Whatever happened to the Fat Frog ice cream?
And why did Ireland once have an annual competition to crown the "Housewife of the Year", awarding its winner a gas cooker?
This and many other mysteries and conundrums are answered in this fascinating, hilarious book!
- About The Author
- Páraic Kerrigan is an Irish Times bestselling author, researcher and Assistant Professor at University College Dublin. His expertise in Irish popular culture stems partly from academic study and partly from an unhealthy level of affection for Irish pop music and cult films. He maintains, without irony, that Fade Street and Dublin Wives are key national texts worthy of serious scholarly attention. He also believes that Six's "There a Whole Lot of Loving" is one of the great overlooked achievements of Irish musical history. Following several unsuccessful attempts to become a pop star, he turned to writing books instead. His previous book, Reeling in the Queers, was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award in 2024.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781804442906
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Eriu, (08 October 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 mm
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