Evan McHugh

By Evan McHugh
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Evan McHugh's chronicle of a trip around Ireland, Pint Sized Ireland, subtitled In Search of the Perfect Guinness, is entirely in the spirit of the festivities.
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Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, if you haven't acquired the taste for a pint of the black stuff, McHugh, an Australian writer, quickly abandons the quest for a pint, and the book becomes a chronicle of the usual Irish sights: the Ring of Kerry, the Dingle peninsula and Fungie, the dolphin that has made Dingle harbour its home, the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, the Giant's Causeway in Antrim and the like.
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McHugh does indeed start the book with visits to Dublin pubs in the company of a pair of Irish lads, searching for the elusive perfect pint.
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McHugh has succumbed to the annoying habit of trying to transform Irish brogue into the written word.Unfortunately, he doesn't abandon that attempt, so the book is filled with abominations like "dem," "dese" and "Oi'll be havin'."It is, frankly, annoying.

Oddly enough, McHugh doesn't render his own speech, surely Australian accented, into the version known as Strine.
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Of course, McHugh never finds that perfect pint, although the people he meets in the pubs all seem to know where it can be found (usually in some town far away).

1606, megaseller: an Epic Adventure, Evan McHugh
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Evan McHugh is a writer, journalist and keen sailor.The author of Outback Heroes, Shipwrecks; Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters and Local heroes he is also well known as the 'Dry Rot' columnist published in the Sunday Telegraph.He lives in Sydney.

In 2006 UNSW Press will be launching New South Books, a new book imprint that will feature Australia's most popular and best-selling non-fiction authors.Starting with Evan McHugh's 1606, a rollicking history of the shipwrecks and mutinies that followed the European discovery of Australia, New South Books will publish a small but exciting list of informative and high quality bookds for a general readership.