Pop Culchie: Ireland's Pop Culture Curiosities

Paraic Kerrigan

Pop Culchie: Ireland's Pop Culture Curiosities

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Release Date: 08-10-2026
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Uncover the oddities and eccentricities at the heart of Irish popular culture and society, providing a kaleidoscopic view of both major and obscure moments in Irish culture.

Pop Culchie is a brilliantly funny and affectionate exploration of the wonderfully strange moments that make up modern Irish popular culture, from Daniel O'Donnell and iodine tablets to national moral panics, forgotten pop acts, and those charmingly Irish scandals that somehow become front-page news.

How did one of Ireland's top-selling pop groups vanish into obscurity?
What turned the missing passport of a young Derry girl into a national scandal?
Why does Ireland have a martial arts movie set in Meath?
Whatever happened to the Fat Frog ice cream?

And why did Ireland once have an annual competition to crown the "Housewife of the Year", awarding its winner a gas cooker?

This and many other mysteries and conundrums are answ ered in this fascinating, hilarious book! Páraic Kerrigan is an author, researcher and Assistant Professor at University College Dublin, w here he teaches on LGBTQ Irish culture. His most recent book Reeling in The Queers w as shortlisted for an Irish Book Aw ard in 2024.