{"product_id":"pop-culchie-irelands-pop-culture-curiosities","title":"Pop Culchie - Ireland's Pop Culture Curiosities","description":"Uncover the oddities and eccentricities at the heart of Irish popular culture and\u003cbr\u003esociety, providing a kaleidoscopic view of both major and obscure moments in\u003cbr\u003eIrish culture\u003cbr\u003ePop Culchie is a brilliantly funny and affectionate exploration of the w onderfully\u003cbr\u003estrange moments that make up modern Irish popular culture, from Daniel O''Donnell\u003cbr\u003eand iodine tablets to national moral panics, forgotten pop acts, and those\u003cbr\u003echarmingly Irish scandals that somehow become front-page new s.\u003cbr\u003eHow did one of Ireland''s top-selling pop groups vanish into obscurity? W hat turned\u003cbr\u003ethe missing passport of a young Derry girl into a national scandal? W hy does\u003cbr\u003eIreland have a martial arts movie set in Meath? W hatever happened to the Fat Frog\u003cbr\u003eice cream? And w hy did Ireland once have an annual competition to crow n the\u003cbr\u003e\"Housew ife of the Year\", aw arding its w inner a gas cooker? This and many other\u003cbr\u003emysteries and conundrums are answ ered in this fascinating, hilarious book!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePáraic Kerrigan is an author, researcher and Assistant Professor at University\u003cbr\u003eCollege Dublin, w here he teaches on LGBTQ Irish culture. His most recent book\u003cbr\u003eReeling in The Queers w as shortlisted for an Irish Book Aw ard in 2024.","brand":"Kerrigan, Páraic","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53615129919827,"sku":"9781804442906","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/pop-culchie-irelands-pop-culture-curiosities","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}