The Irish literary World Cup XI.
Denis Mahon writes:
“Not too sure about the right back though… Maybe sub in Flann instead, what do you think?”
The literary World Cup: readers’ best all-time teams (Guadianbooksblog)
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Everything. As It Happens.
BINCHY???
In goal. Nothing would get past her.
(Let me be the first to say that was a silly, puerile comment).
….o’connor…seriously…I’m hoping they at least mean Frank or even Ulick ffs.
Who else would they mean?
Joseph?
Bahahahahaha
No, but really?
I wasn’t proposing him btw, just surmising who bisted may have been talking about…
It’s Frank for me.
Class is permanent……
No Julian Gough? Hugo Hamilton? Fiona Looney?
Stuck in the past as always.
Eh, Julian Gough? Fiona Looney? Hugo Hamilton? I’m guessing you’ve read three books in your life. (Now if you’d suggested Kevin Barry).
Kevin Barry? It’s for writers, idiot. Why don’t we stick in Wolfe Tone and be done with it.
Maybe he meant Sebastian Barry?
Idiot? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Barry_(author)
My mistake. I didn’t know he was a writer too.
It puts his early death in an even more sombre light.
Ralegh?? Anyone?
Sir Walter.
Raleigh!! Not Irish.
As Irish as Andy Townsend.
On your bike.
Thanks, for that ScaryLady…..I guess next time I’ll try to make my jokes a little more obvious…
What about your woman who won the Booker who described some lad as having an oblong langer? Or the little fat lad who does detective books with the hat? We have writers squirting out of our tuktuks.
Thanks, you just saved me €55.
Hey are stoker and Charles maturin on the bench, the annes, Radcliffe and enright would destroy on attack in my opinion. Mccabe is a surrealist defender or an obfuscating goalie, in fairness we have an extensive panel for selection,
Where are Yeats, Goldsmith and Edgeworth? Also Anthony Trollope could put in for an Irish passport and do a Big Cas on it…
I would have put in Roddy Doyle before Binchy or McCabe. And I agree, Flann O’Brien should be there too. The fat lad who does detective books? I guess John Banville? I think you’re right, he’s also world class.
Is the comment section of this website akin to the “lower leagues”?
Vauxhall conference
Sunday kickabout with grandad.
No JB. Keane. Jackeen biased mockery.
Oh, and; KEANO!!!
And Keano’s dog!
Triggs offered a great Autobiography.
Kavanagh actually played in goal for Inniskeen so good call there.
Jp Dunleavy – centre forward. (C’mon – he’s been living here long enough)
Arthur Conan Doyle on the granny rule. Plus Lafcadio Hearn might offer a bit of pace off the bench.
Flann O’Brien should be in there as a creative middle fielder. Beckett is not a striker, I’d have him in goal. Joyce up front. Binchy isn’t even on the bench and where’s Yeats? O’Casey instead of “Ralegh” and Banville instead of whichever O’Connor they’re talking about. Colm Toibin instead of McCabe. Kevin Barry vying for a starting place in the starting eleven.
Laurence Sterne?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Sterne
Ah lads c’mon Where is Seamus Heaney. Not only a genius but a proper ball player to boot. John B has to be in there also!!
….and Bram Striker
Irish as in English.