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Title: Rest in Peace, Mr. McCarthy!
Review: We were living in Scotland when we both read this book. We had been to the re-enactment of the Battle of Ballinamuck in County Longford in 1998 a year before or so. It was where my husband's Grandfather came from and left in 1914. Immediately after reading it, he wanted to go back. Pete McCarthy captures it all too well, especially the genetic memory. One other reviewer stated that Americans go there to get cheap real estate.I suggest you try it and see that there is NO cheap property going for sale in Ireland anymore!Pete McCarthy did not use a computer to write. Everything was hand written or typed first before he handed it over to someone. Perhaps that is why we got so little from him in. Also read his other book, The Road to McCarthy. Brilliant, as well. McCarthy's Bar, however, will be the one that we will read for a third time. His passing is a great loss to Britain and Ireland.
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