{"product_id":"pop-culchie-irelands-pop-culture-curiosities","title":"Pop Culchie - The Irish popular culture that made us [2026]","description":"What do Daniel O''Donnell, pint baby, iodine tablets, Irish reality television,\u003cbr\u003emoral panics around sex, Nadine Coyle''s missing passport, housewives of the\u003cbr\u003eyear, bachelor festivals and the Aliv e- O religion programme have in common?\u003cbr\u003eThey all tell the story of Ireland through the pop culture that has shaped us.\u003cbr\u003ePart cultural history, part memoir and part affectionate excavation of the things w e\u003cbr\u003ebore w itness too and experienced, this book explores the television show s, music,\u003cbr\u003escandals, celebrities, fads and media moments that shaped generations of Irish\u003cbr\u003epeople.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the rise of Irish reality television and the country''s first music video\u003cbr\u003eprogramme MT-USA, to forgotten chart acts, moral panics, tabloid sensations and\u003cbr\u003eunlikely national icons, Pop Culchie explores the stories behind the pop culture\u003cbr\u003emoments that defined us.\u003cbr\u003eFunny, nostalgic and rigorously researched, Pop Culchie reveals how popular culture\u003cbr\u003ehas shaped Irish culture and history over the last half-century.\u003cbr\u003eWhether you''re nostalgic for the pop culture moments of the past or fascinated\u003cbr\u003eby the strange underbelly of Ireland''s cultural moments, this is a celebration of\u003cbr\u003eIrish popular culture in all its eccentric, hilarious and unforgettable glory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePáraic Kerrigan is an Irish Times bestselling author, researcher and Assistant\u003cbr\u003eProfessor at University College Dublin. His expertise in Irish popular culture stems\u003cbr\u003epartly from academic study and partly from an unhealthy level of affection for Irish\u003cbr\u003epop music and cult films. He maintains, w ithout irony, that Fade Street and Dublin\u003cbr\u003eWives are key national texts w orthy of serious scholarly attention. He also believes\u003cbr\u003ethat Six''s \"There a W hole Lot of Loving\" is one of the great overlooked\u003cbr\u003eachievements of Irish musical history. Follow ing several unsuccessful attempts to\u003cbr\u003ebecome a pop star, he turned to w riting books instead. His previous book, Reeling in\u003cbr\u003ethe 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}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kerrigan-paraic-pop-culchie-the-irish-popular-culture-that-made-us-9781804442906-1250668628.jpg?v=1788264028","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/pop-culchie-irelands-pop-culture-curiosities","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}