A History of Ireland in 100 Journeys – Frank McNally

On the road again

"I will arise and go now." Photograph: Getty Images

1 The Book of Invasions

2 The Cattle Raid of Cooley

3 St Patrick’s kidnap

4 Mad King Sweeney’s aerial tour of Ireland

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5 St Brendan’s voyage

6 The Lough Derg pilgrimage

7 I walked entranced through a land of morn

8 Follow me up to Carlow

9 Art O’Neill’s escape from Dublin Castle

10 The Flight of the Earls

11 To hell or to Connacht

12 Sarsfield’s Ride

13 Allistrum’s March

14 Humbert crossing the windy gap

15 Into our townlan’ on a night of snow/Rode the man from God knows where

16 Siúil, siúil, siúil a rúin

17 I walked from Mallow town to Aghadoe, Aghadoe

18 I took his head from the jail gate to Aghadoe

19 The minstrel boy to the war has gone

20 Doolough valley famine walk

21-23 My body to Ireland. My heart to Rome. My soul to God

24 The Catalpa rescue

25 The queen she paid a call on us/She wanted to see all of us

26 It was time for him to begin his journey westward

27 Bloomsday

28 Trieste-Paris-Zurich, 1914-1921

29 The Titanic

30 A long way to Tipperary

31 And we’re all off to Dublin in the green/in the green

32 Twas down the glen one easter morn/To a city fair road I ...

33 Béal na Bláth

34 I will arise and go now

35 And therefore I have sailed the seas and come/To the holy city of Byzantium

36 I went down to the hazel wood/Because a fire was in my head

37 The rocky road to Dublin

38 On the Road to Ballybay

39-42 The Roads to Abbeyshrule/Donegal/Downpatrick/McCarthy

43 Down the old bog road

44 The Road to God knows where

45 Alcock & Brown

46 Wrong-way Corrigan

47 Are you right there Michael?

48 Philadelphia here I come

49 The bicycles go by in twos and threes

50 Canal Bank Walk

51 We borrowed the loan of Kerr’s big ass/To go to Dundalk for butter

52 Walking the queen’s highway

53 Traditional route to church

54 The Patrick’s Day parade

55 From Clare to here

56 From Carrickmacross to Crossmaglen

57 Down the glen came McAlpine’s men

58 Will you go lassie go?

59 Come back Paddy Reilly to Ballyjamesduff

60 She moved through the fair

61 And it’s straight I will repair to the Curragh of Kildare

62 The road to the shore

63 The Wicklow Way

64 The Columban Way

65 Michael they are taking you away

66 Heinrich Böll’s Irish journal

67 Dervla Murphy’s full tilt

68 The Trip to Tipp

69 Thousands are sailing

70 Lourdes

71 As I roved out

72 I’ve been a wild rover for many’s a year

73 On the Fourth of July eighteen-hundred and six/We set sail from the sweet Cove of Cork

74 Ride on

75 As I was going over/The Cork and Kerry mountains

76 As I rode out to Galway town to seek for recreation

77 The Waxies Dargle

78 Last night as I lay dreaming of pleasant days gone by/My mind being bent on rambling to Ireland I did fly

79 If you ever go across the sea to Ireland

80 The Burntollet march

81 Sunningdale for slow learners.

82 Into the West

83 I went down

84 The Crying Game

85 I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to Meath

86 And you know you gotta go/On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row

87 Guess who just got back today?/Them wild-eyed boys that have been away

88 Stephen Roche’s Tour de France

89 The Dublin-Belfast Maracycle

90 So I jumped on a bus to Dun Laoghaire/Stopping off to pick up my guitar

91 Don’t pay the Ferryman

92 In the summer we’ll go walkin’/Down the Curra Road

93 Summer in Siam

94 The boat to Liverpool.

95 The train from Sligo moves too slow

96 The train to Sligo moves too fast

97 The N17 98 Back-door All-Irelands

99 We’re not there yet but we’re getting there.

100 If you’re a rock star, porn star, superstar, doesn’t matter what you are, get yourself a good car, get out of here.