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 w onderfully
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 new s.
How did one of Ireland''s top-selling pop groups vanish into obscurity? W hat turned
the missing passport of a young Derry girl into a national scandal? W hy does
Ireland have a martial arts movie set in Meath? W hatever happened to the Fat Frog
ice cream? And w hy did Ireland once have an annual competition to crow n the
"Housew ife of the Year", aw arding its w inner 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.