The Road to McCarthy (53 page)

ALSO BY PETE MCCARTHY

McCarthy’s Bar

Photograph of author as a child in toy car © Ken Robinson
Photograph of mining “nugget”: Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Maps by Neil Gower
Extract from
The Fields of Athenry
by kind permission
of Peter St. John © Pete St. John (Saint Music)

First published in Great Britain in 2002
by Hodder and Stoughton.

The first U.S. edition was published in 2004 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

THE ROAD TO MCCARTHY
. Copyright © 2002, 2004 by Pete McCarthy.
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First Perennial edition published 2005.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

McCarthy, Pete (Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson)
The road to McCarthy: around the world
in search of Ireland/Pete McCarthy.
p. cm.
1. Irish—Foreign countries. 2. McCarthy, Pete (Peter Charles
McCarthy Robinson)—Travel. 3. Ireland—Civilization. 4. Voyages
and travels. I. Title.
DA916.8.M33 2004
909′.049162—dc21       2003054957

EPub Edition © MAY 2010 ISBN: 978-0-062-02079-6

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