The worst book involving Ireland, ever.

BraziliaNZ · 27-05-2008 07:40AM

who cares, whoever she was she put me through hell. And we had to do is bastarding Irish too!

JangoFett · 27-05-2008 07:43AM

I missed it by a couple of years, but I've been told at length about the pain you endured, I hope you're ok now though

Sherifu · 27-05-2008 08:56AM

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

But Voyager did a few in some holodeck Oirish village. Brutal. Fair enough if it was for a joke but to have a serious story going on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhVcqUNolE

Red Hand · 27-05-2008 08:59AM

Angela's Ashes. Worst imo=depressing

Grizzly 45 · 27-05-2008 11:32AM

A holo deck village somwhere between killalowe[Killaloe no doubt] 3.5 [what?miles kilometers,light years?]and Tuamgraney 5. Physically impossible geographically.
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TwoShedsJackson · 27-05-2008 12:37PM

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/0006475914/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1211887988&sr=8-1&condition=all

Few copies of Dark Rose available there, mostly about £4-6 apart from the one US seller who wants £79.84 :rolleyes:

MOH · 27-05-2008 03:29PM

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

But kudos to Colm Meany for yelling BOLLOCKS in an episode of Star Trek. Yay

Only heard about that last week, class

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Anyone read Frank Herbert [of DUNE fame] The White Plauge??
A famous US /DNA micro biologist is on a sabbatical in Dublin with his missus and two sons ,who get promptly blown up in Dublin by a renegade IRA unit.This drives the poor fellow mad,whereupon he goes back to the USA and home brews a plauge that targets three specific DNAs of the Irish woman, UK women and Libyan women.Figuring out that if he kills off all three females of the races,they cannot breed and all three races are guilty of the genocide/political troubles in Ireland.Wont reveal anymore if you havent read it.
Written in the 1980s,it has plenty of dreadful Irish chacters ,sterotypical top o the morin to ya IRA men and disapproving preists etc.
Laugh a minute book.

You got there before me. That was dreadful. Had to force myself to wade through 400+ pages of utter tripe. Amazingly, according to Wikipedia it was nominated for a Locus award for best science fiction novel for 1983 but lost to Isaac Asimov’s novel Foundation's Edge.

There's a brief summary of the plot there, it's truly terrible. Even aside from the laughable politics and Irish references, it's very badly written.

What's alarming is the number of good reviews it gets if you google it.

kovski · 27-05-2008 03:36PM

At last some other people who have read Dark Rose. I found this book in a youth hostel in London. It is spectaclarily bad. I finished it and thought I want to tell other people how bad this book is. Pity I wasn't on Boards at the time. The Irish resistance group were called "the buachaiilli", Irish people call each other by their full names (I'll tell you a thing or two Tomas O Sullivan) and best of all they ask the IRA not to get invoved and they say no problem as long as the loyalists do the same??? Whoever wrote this is either a mongo or the world's biggest piss take artist. It's the Fatal Deviation of novels.

citytillidie · 27-05-2008 03:46PM

There was some other kids program based on Irish Myths i think it was called the Knights of Tir Na Og of something like that, god that was awful

Victor · 29-05-2008 08:11AM

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

A holo deck village somwhere between killalowe[Killaloe no doubt] 3.5 [what?miles kilometers,light years?]and Tuamgraney 5. Physically impossible geographically.

Um, Irish road signs are never correct, they were trying to be realistic.

Intothesea · 29-05-2008 09:11AM

Leon Uris's 'Trinity', literary equivalent of green beer
and plastic shamrocks. Almost unmissably bad :pac:

Capt'n Midnight · 29-05-2008 11:58PM

citytillidie wrote: »

There was some other kids program based on Irish Myths i think it was called the Knights of Tir Na Og of something like that, god that was awful

Mystic Knights it was :rolleyes:
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/jerningham/437/deirdre.html

Manic Moran · 30-05-2008 02:59AM

Sherifu wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhVcqUNolE

How the devil did I manage to miss all those episodes? I remember the one in Next Gen, though.

That Celtic Woman crowd are doing a roaring business over this side of the water. They were in Louisville a few months ago, about $125 a ticket.

In fairness, they're good looking with good voices.

NTM

JangoFett · 30-05-2008 03:03AM

Colm Meaney shouting Bollox in Star Trek Deep Space Nine was probably the greatest Star Trek moment of all time!

KnifeWRENCH · 30-05-2008 03:14AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EastEnders_episodes_in_Ireland

knucklehead6 · 31-10-2018 11:25AM

Necro Thread Resurrection

But for those of you who are interested, I found Dark Rose on the kindle store at the weekend for 1.99

Re-reading it again and by god it's bad!!

ohnonotgmail · 31-10-2018 12:06PM

knucklehead6 wrote: »

Necro Thread Resurrection

But for those of you who are interested, I found Dark Rose on the kindle store at the weekend for 1.99

Re-reading it again and by god it's bad!!

so bad its good or just plain bad?

knucklehead6 · 31-10-2018 02:20PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

so bad its good or just plain bad?

So bad it’s good. But bad!! :-)

Feisar · 31-10-2018 04:02PM

If we are drifting into TV may I present for your consideration Fatal Deviation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Deviation

topper75 · 31-10-2018 04:39PM

EamonnKeane wrote: »

They could tear down the statue of Dev in Ennis a la Saddam - you'd get a fair crowd out to see that

The only such statue in Ireland AFAIK.

The only Collins one I know is in Clona'. But he has a bust also in Merrion Sq in Dublin so he wins that contest by a head.

Kingp35 · 31-10-2018 05:06PM

Feisar wrote: »

If we are drifting into TV may I present for your consideration Fatal Deviation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Deviation

Watch this film once a year, it's pure comedy gold.

With dialogue like "You made me look bad, and that is not good", how can you go wrong!

Feisar · 31-10-2018 05:23PM

Kingp35 wrote: »

Watch this film once a year, it's pure comedy gold.

With dialogue like "You made me look bad, and that is not good", how can you go wrong!

"You killed my faaather, now I'm going to kill you" - Bogger accent.

Tenger · 31-10-2018 08:45PM

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

so bad its good or just plain bad?

Im going with plain bad

31-10-2018 09:01PM

Feisar wrote: »

If we are drifting into TV may I present for your consideration Fatal Deviation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Deviation

That's a classic, only Mike even tries to act and he seems so out of place in his scenes cause of it

Skylinehead · 31-10-2018 10:55PM

riffmongous wrote: »

That's a classic, only Mike even tries to act and he seems so out of place in his scenes cause of it

Not to mention the jarring cuts to whatever room he's in, because it's certainly not the same one

Capt'n Midnight · 01-11-2018 01:14AM

GOLIATH
by the aughor of Alistar MacLean's Hostage tower.

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/john-denis/goliath.htm

IRISH-AMERICAN COLM MCCANDLESS WAS ONE OF THE WORLDS RICHEST MEN-AND ALSO ONE OF IT'S MOST DANGEROUS.HIS OVERWHELMING AMBITION WAS TO KICK THE BRITISH OUT OF IRELAND AND SUBJUGATE THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO HIS RULE.HE HAD ENLISTED THE SUPPORT OF SOME VERY POWERFUL ALLIES AND HAD BUILT,IN SECRET,A MASSIVE,DEVASTATINGLY DESTRUCTIVE WEAPON:GOLIATH.

British Intelligence had their own secret weapon:
beautiful, highly professional agent Cristal Vengan.
Backed up by IRA infiltrators and all the top resources of
secret service department SIS, Cristal's assignment was to
penetrate McCandless' defences and learn all she could
of his daring plans. it was to prove the most terrifying
mission any of them ever attempted ...

RayCon · 01-11-2018 01:16AM

I haven't read the thread but has anyone mentioned Peig

The worst book involving Ireland, ever.

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