What about John Larkin's "larkin about in Ireland or the pacifist's guide to self-flagellation?"
Below is a extract from the cover:
'Home is where the harp is...' 'An Irish writer's pilgrimage to a homeland he has never lived in'
"John Larkin travels to Ireland in search of his spiritual home, the one his father had left behind in the fifties. Instead, he finds a nation undergoing tremendous change: from poor to rich, religious to secular, leprechauns to boy bands. Ireland is on the move, cutting deals, talking rubbish on mobile phones.
It's a hilarious and often poignant journey up Croagh Patrick, the holies of holy mountains, around The Ring of Kerry, to Knock, home to the tackiest souvenir shops in the world (and an apparition of The Blessed Virgin), and into pubs where the locals still end their days in a lively fall off a bar stool."