Colm orourke to launch trim authors book tomorrow

Having watched family and friends emigrate and faced with headlines laden down with cutbacks and crises, Trim man, Ronan Moore decided to list some of the reasons why Ireland isn’t all that bad.
He is publishing a book - a light-hearted list of reasons to feel good about our little country.‘Irishology’ is a witty, irreverent and nostalgic guide to things you’ll only see, hear, taste, experience and remember in Ireland.
His book will be launched tomorrow at Eason in Navan by Colm O’Rourke at 6.30pm.  
Ronan is a secondary-school English teacher at St Patrick’s Classical School in Navan.
He lived overseas and fuelled by memories of what he missed when he was abroad, Ronan posted a blog entry for each and every morning of the year on 365ReasonsToLoveIreland.blogspot.ie.
Almost 100,000 hits later, his blog has become his first book, ‘Irishology’.
While we may be a nation of messers and begrudgers, we’ll always have a soft spot for our land of sunny spells and scattered showers. Who else but the Irish can perform minor miracles with a prayer to St Anthony? Or truly appreciate the medicinal purposes of flat 7Up? Not to mention the front room, chipper chips and the ‘bad pint’.
Ronan also provides sound guidance on Irish rites of passage like Cemetery Sundays and Sports Days, and tips for surviving social situations like an Irish Wedding or your first Wake.
For anyone who flashes their lights when there’s a speed van ahead, has had a candle lit for them at mass, goes ‘out-out’ at the weekend, or still remembers the rules of Tip the Can and the taste of HB Ice-Pops, this book will have you laughing your way to a degree in Irishology.
Irishology will be published by Gill & Macmillan priced at €10.99.
He lives in Trim with his wife, Frances, who he married recently on a gloriously overcast Irish summer’s day.