{"product_id":"pop-culchie","title":"Pop Culchie: Ireland's Pop Culture Curiosities","description":"\u003cb\u003eUncover the oddities and eccentricities at the heart of Irish popular culture and\r\nsociety, providing a kaleidoscopic view of both major and obscure moments in\r\nIrish culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\r\nPop Culchie is a brilliantly funny and affectionate exploration of the wonderfully\r\nstrange moments that make up modern Irish popular culture, from Daniel O'Donnell\r\nand iodine tablets to national moral panics, forgotten pop acts, and those\r\ncharmingly Irish scandals that somehow become front-page news.\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nHow did one of Ireland's top-selling pop groups vanish into obscurity?\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWhat turned the missing passport of a young Derry girl into a national scandal?\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWhy does Ireland have a martial arts movie set in Meath?\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWhatever happened to the Fat Frog ice cream?\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nAnd why did Ireland once have an annual competition to crown the\r\n\"Housewife of the Year\", awarding its winner a \u003ci\u003egas cooker?\u003c\/i\u003e\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n This and many other\r\nmysteries and conundrums are answ ered in this fascinating, hilarious book!\r\n\r\n\r\nPáraic Kerrigan is an author, researcher and Assistant Professor at University\r\nCollege Dublin, w here he teaches on LGBTQ Irish culture. His most recent book\r\nReeling in The Queers w as shortlisted for an Irish Book Aw ard in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paraic Kerrigan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57112293736713,"sku":"9781804442906","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookstation.ie\/products\/pop-culchie","provider":"Bookstation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}