McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland by Pete McCarthy

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars
This has been on my shelf gathering dust for yonks so I thought I'd finally give it a go.

It is ok, it's amusing and in places laugh-out-loud funny. McCarthy takes us with him on a seemingly random journey around bits of Ireland in the early 'noughties' (the year 2000 to be exact), his main objective is to drink in all the bars named McCarthy. He meets some eccentric characters who are the mainstay of the book, it is the nosy, blunt speaking B&B landladies and the guiless wanna-be-Irish Americans that kept me reading (an American lady asks in all seriousness if County Mayo is named after the sauce!).

My interest lagged towards the end of the book, I found myself looking forward to the end of the pub crawl - but at least I now have a space on my bookshelf.


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