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Title:Celt Notefile
Moderator:TALLIS::DARCY
Created:Wed Feb 19 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
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1447.0. "Secret World of Irish Male !; any details ?" by CTHQ::COADY () Mon Jan 09 1995 13:35

    
    (From Irish Emigrant 9-Jan-1995)
    
    Interesting title; anyone shed light on this ?, does it put us in 
    the good light we deserve ?
    
    
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Bestsellers - Irish published:
  1. The Secret World of the Irish Male, by Joseph O'Connor 
                                                     (New Island Books)

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1447.1XSTACY::GRAINNEsignal (SIGCUBE, SIG_IGN);Thu Jan 12 1995 07:5912
    Its a compendium of short pieces, most (all?) of them published elsewhere
    already, such as his column in the Sunday Tribune. In particular, it
    has the full set of articles that made up the 'World Cup Diary' in the
    Trib. These are hysterically funny, and focus on the experience of
    being a fan at the mercy of incompetent travel agencies, and bored to
    death in Orlando, rather than on the soccer. There are also pieces on
    being Irish in London, youthful student rebellion, and Irish fathers
    and sons etc. My personal opinion is that he's a lot better at this type of
    reportage stuff than he is as a novelist. As you'd expect, there's
    almost no mention of Sinead.
    
    Grainne Ni Choiligh