25th May 2010
#booksmadeirish
I’ve given in and am on Twitter. Have been for a wee while now, largely just to announce new installments of the comic, but I got a bit carried away with the #booksmadeirish trend last night. Here’s a selection of some that tickled me…
- The Unbearable Lightness of Behan
- The George Bernard Shawshank Redemption
- The Catcher in the Fields of Athen Rye
- Uncle Tom’s Diarmuid Gavin
- Like Waterford Chocolate
- The Gerry Addams Family
- Bernadette Devlin Wears Prada
- Moby Mick
- The Godfather Ted
- Crokepark Mountain
- Maude Gonne with the Wind
- The Cute Hoor’s Last Sigh
- Athlonement
- Down and Connor in London and Paris
- Cabbages are not the only Vegetable
- Men are from Cork, Women are from Dublin
- Jedward Ho!
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe Tone
- Asterix the Galway
- The Girl Shopping in the Striped Pajamas
- The World According to Gar
- James Connolly and the Giant Peach
- Cry the Beloved Culchie
- The Grand Gatsby
- Corky Park
- The Lovely Bonos
- Treasure Ireland
- A Clockwork Orangeman
- The Name of the Rose of Tralee
- The Oul Fella and the Sea
- Dostoyevsky’s The Eejit
- The Maeve Binchy Code
- Armagh in Havana
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Fenians
- The Emergency and Peace
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galtees
- Athlonesome Dove
- The Remains of the Da
- The Men who Stare at Paddy McGinty’s Goat
And, of course…
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo O’Garcia!
I made far too many suggestions, and most of them were crap, but I like these ones:
- Belleek House
- Gulliver’s Travellers
- I Am Legend, So I Am
- Cyrano de Mullaghbrack
- The Rig Veda Bread
- The Rape of the Lough
- One Hundred Years of Holywood
- The Gulag Arklow
- Dunfanaghyxote
- The De Valera Rides Out
- Robinson Cruise O’Brien
- The Call of the Wild Rover
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