Pete McCarthy Dies at 81
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.13.04 | 6:57 PM ET
Pete McCarthy, author of “McCarthy’s Bar” and “The Road to McCarthy,” died last week in Brighton, England, the Associated Press has reported. McCarthy’s Bar recounts his journey through the west of Ireland, which he called “an attempt to discover whether my feelings were genuine: is it possible to have a genetic memory of a place where you haven’t lived but your ancestors did? Or am I just another sad plastic Paddy who has been conned by the Chieftains’ albums and the Guinness ads?”