Round Ireland in Low Gear by Eric NewbyPenguin, 1989 (originally William Collins Sons & Co, 1987)

Ireland by bicycle: wet weather, bogs, castles, ruins, roadside shrines, Guinness, et cetera. I appreciated the passages quoted from older guidebooks (and was charmed by the idea of Newby lugging books from 1912 around Ireland on a bicycle in 1985), but much of the history seemed too just-barely touched-upon; I felt like I would have appreciated more background, or else less detail.