“You see ve Germans too can have ze craic”
Sometimes #LateLate really does reward a second viewing. This is a second right from Apre Match’s character Günther Gruhn.
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Books
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Ian O’Riordan’s Miles to Run: An invitation to madness?
Tweet Ireland is in the middle of a boom – a running boom. Chances are, even if you have never run a step yourself (apart from some painful P.E. classes many moons ago), someone you know has taken up running over the last little while. Road races in Northern Ireland and in the Republic have [...] read our review »
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A Political History of the Two Irelands competition…
Tweet It’s not often we get free things to give away to our readers, but courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan we have a nice paperback copy of Brian M Walker’s excellent history of partition of the island and how identities shifted in both the north east and the south and west: as most of the territory [...] read our review »
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Patrick McGinley’s ‘That Unearthly Valley: A Donegal Childhood’: Book Review
Tweet In Bogmail and Foggage, Patrick McGinley sent up the Irish (could he or it be otherwise?) murder mystery genre. He scooped dollops of encyclopaedic wit and mordant satire into these entertainments. A later saga proved more somber and meditative, the Black and Tan War ending as The Lost Soldier’s Song, while The Trick of [...] read our review »
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Very good. However Mario Rosenstock appears to have been confused with his Uncle Gabriel!
hilarious
Mario Rosenstock for Taoiseach
And the Great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that god made mad
For all their comedians predict the future .
And their politicians can’t tell good from bad .
Gunther Gruhn for Minister of Finance
Irish Pictorial weekly sounds like a re-incarnation of the infamous Hall’s Pictorial Weekly of the 1970′s . Eamonn Morrissey lives and the Minister of Hardship has been re-incarnated !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzu1ToAxdFk