A Pint and a Haircut: True Irish Stories

Garret Pearse

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Book
€12.99

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Publication date: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-907535-16-1

Category: Memoir

Type: Paperback, eBook

Price: eBook €7.99, Printed Copy €12.99

All Irish people have at least one good story to tell – A Pint and a Haircut is the proof of that. The collection takes its title from a story provided by James Smith from Cavan, whose father’s pub provided not just pints to local farmers on their way home from the creamery but haircuts – courtesy of an enterprising customer. Garret Pearse’s own story dates from an internship with Guinness. But not all the stories concern – or even mention – the demon drink. There are sad stories and happy stories, funny stories and hopeful ones and quirky ones. What they have in common is that they are all true: the rich tapestry of Irish life is represented here. Garret Pearse describes his inspiration to begin this project: ‘I got Paul Auster’s book, True Tales of American Lives, for Christmas. The book is a compendium of true stories sent by listeners to Paul Auster’s show on National Public Radio in the US. I was reading it when the story of Haiti earthquake broke. I thought it would be great to produce an Irish equivalent with as many true Irish stories as possible.'

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About the author

Garret Pearse was born in 1971 and raised in Longford. He was educated at St Andrew’s College in Booterstown and Dublin Business School. He lived and worked in Boston in the late 1990s and now lives in Wicklow town. He works as an IT consultant in Leopardstown, County Dublin.