Combining a collection of interviews with stunning and enigmatic photos, this book looks at dying ways and traditions of Irish life and provides a valuable chronicle that will connect 21st century Ireland to a rapidly disappearing world.

The Irish pub may survive the meltdown but many will disappear in the process. This book is about those some of those that we hope survive.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.