rural pub

Cartoons from Country Living!

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Dickie Rock Showband Caricature

Cartoon of Dickie Rock in the Showband era with the Spit on me Dickie chant as huge knickers fly towards him from the audience. Every year the Connacht Tribune runs a supplement called Country Living. It features a range of articles on modern rural living as well as nostalgic pieces on how it used to … Read more

Double Vision Loss of Rural Irish Pub

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“When I lived in Connemara, I used to frequent (the old) Keogh’s pub in Ballyconneely. I was green back then, and by that I don’t mean pure unadulterated paddy: I mean that, as an Englishman new to an Irish village, I smiled a lot, kept my head down, myself to myself (with the notable exception … Read more