The Shelbourne Ultimatum
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The Shelbourne Ultimatum
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Author : Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2012-09-27
The Shelbourne Ultimatum written by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-27 with Fiction categories.
After his brush with death Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - schools rugby legend, award-winning author and lover of the ladeez - is back with a renewed lust for life - all thrillingly revealed in The Shelbourne Ultimatum. Ross wakes up from his coma to find a country that has changed beyond recognition. Shrewsbury Road has become a ghost estate. Marks and Spencer are selling microwavable coddle. And a Euro discount store is about to open in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre. And he was only unconscious for twenty-four hours. But never mind all that. The main thing is that whoever tried to kill him missed all his vital organs. All his vital organs. And having had such a lucky escape Ross vows not to waste another minute of his life. There are thousands of women out there and just one Ross to go around. He needs to focus. Of course, life gets in the way. He has a daughter who hates him, a son who is growing up way too fast and a soon-to-be-ex wife who is resorting to increasingly desperate measures to stop the bank from repossessing the house. Oh, and the Gords - get this! - think he's lying to them. Lying? Ross? 'Ross's misadventures and on-the-nose observations never fail to provoke a laugh-out-loud reaction ... bursting at the seams with spot-on parody' Irish Times 'Will leave you with pains in your cheeks from laughing' RTÉ Guide The Shelbourne Ultimatum is the twelfth novel in Paul Howard's 'Ross O'Carroll-Kelly' series. Ross books have sold half a million copies, are annually nominated for the Popular Fiction prize at the Irish Book Awards - where they have twice won the prize - and are also critically acclaimed as satirical masterpieces. Titles include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress, Should have Got off at Sydney Parade, This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own, Rhino What You Did Last Summer, NAMA Mia! and The Oh My God Delusion. The last of these was chosen as Ireland's favourite book in Eason's 125th birthday poll.
Reading Paul Howard
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Author : Eugene O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-12-22
Reading Paul Howard written by Eugene O'Brien and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O’Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour, in Howard’s texts. The volume argues that his academic critical neglect is due to a classic bifurcation in Irish Studies between high and popular culture, and will use the thought of Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Derrida to critique this division, building a theoretical platform from which to examine the significance of Howard’s work as an Irish comic and satirical writer. Addressing both the style and the substance of his work, this text locates him in a tradition of Irish satirical writing that dates back to the Gaelic bards, and includes writers like Swift, Wilde, Flann O’Brien and Joyce. Through textual and contextual analysis, this book makes the case for Howard as a significant and original voice in Irish writing, whose fusion of the three traditional types of satire (Horatian, Juvenalian and Menippean), has created a parallel Ireland that shines a satirical light on its real counterpart. As Freud suggests, humour is a way of accessing aspects of the psyche that normative discourses cannot enunciate, and Howard, through the confessional voice of Ross, offers a fictive truth on twenty years of Irish society, a truth that is not accessed by discourse in the public sphere or by what could be termed literary or high cultural fiction.
The Undecidable
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Author : Clare Gorman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-09-18
The Undecidable written by Clare Gorman and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-18 with Philosophy categories.
This book offers a detailed engagement between the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and the contemporary Irish author Paul Howard, aka Ross O’Carroll-Kelly. The book offers insightful analyses of Derrida’s deconstructive theory with all its concepts, non-concepts and neologisms, thus showing how they can be used in order to provide a critique of the socio-linguistic realm of Howard’s fictional series. Through his work, Howard set in ink a depiction of Ireland, and specifically Dublin, throughout the Celtic Tiger era and its aftermath. The book promotes a dialogue between Derrida and Howard in order to cultivate a succinct and accessible overview of critical theory.
Keeping Up With The Kalashnikovs
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Author : Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-09-11
Keeping Up With The Kalashnikovs written by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-11 with Fiction categories.
My friend, Fionn, was being held hostage in, I don't know, Unganga Nanga, and the Government was refusing to send in a team of marines to extract him. Pack of focking cauliflower worriers. I wouldn't have minded being bound and gagged in a basement - just for some peace and quiet. My wife was up the spout again. My daughter had grown into a mix between Suri Cruise and a Chucky doll. And one or two other chickens - well, birds - were coming home to roost. Suddenly, I realized what I had to do - go and get Fionn back. Except what I didn't realize was that Unganga Nanga was no country for old tens.
Seedless In Seattle
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Author : Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-09-15
Seedless In Seattle written by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Fiction categories.
Like the great Jesus Christ himself, I had a lot of shit on my mind when I hit 33 ... I had three new-born future Ireland internationals to feed, a daughter in need of psychiatric evaluation and a teenage son obsessed with uncovering the shameful secrets of our family's 1916 past. Throw into the mix a sister missing in Orgentina, a wife struggling to lose the weight from her orse and an interfering father-in-law living under my roof. You can see why, like the Son of God, my life had become a major hassle. And just when I thought it couldn't get any more difficult, a moment of madness involving - what else? - the opposite sex persuaded Sorcha that I needed to have the unkindest cut of all. Seedless in Seattle is the fifteenth novel in Paul Howard's 'Ross O'Carroll-Kelly' series. Ross books - annual No 1 best-sellers - have sold over half a million copies, are annually nominated for the Popular Fiction prize at the Irish Book Awards - where they have won the prize an unprecedented three times - and are also critically acclaimed as satirical masterpieces.
Mr S And The Secrets Of Andorra S Box
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Author : Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-10-30
Mr S And The Secrets Of Andorra S Box written by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-30 with Fiction categories.
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is broke and out of love. His wife has gone to America, taking his daughter with him; his mother has become a celebrity chef on daytime television, with a particular skill for handling phallic ingredients; and his father continues to languish in Mountjoy Jail. To cap it all, Immaculata, a Nigerian girl whom his wife, Sorcha, has been sponsoring by direct debit for fifteen years, has turned up on his doorstep. Things couldn�t get worse. But the long road back begins high in the Pyrenees, in the tax haven of Andorra, where Ross must spread the Gospel of rugby to the strange, primitive natives who have only ever heard of soccer, skiing and duty free shopping. There he meets Conchita, a beautiful, sultry psychoanalyst, who persuades him to look inwards and find out what it is that makes him tick. Sorry, thick.
This Champagne Mojito Is The Last Thing I Own
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Author : Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-06-05
This Champagne Mojito Is The Last Thing I Own written by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-05 with Fiction categories.
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's father, Charles, finally gets sent down for tax evasion and corruption, leaving Ross and his mother in a spot of bother. It looks like the rugby legend is about to get his comeuppance as his perfect life finally unravels. Is this the end of cocktail hour?
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightdress
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Author : Paul Howard
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-06
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightdress written by Paul Howard and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06 with Fiction categories.
This is another instalment of the misadventures of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly - a hysterical satire of beer, bonking and rugby!
Nama Mia
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Author : Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Ireland
Release Date : 2012
Nama Mia written by Ross O'Carroll-Kelly and has been published by Penguin Ireland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Dublin (Ireland) categories.
It was no country for young men. Or women ... Unemployment, emigration and do-it-yourself hair colour kits were once again a fact of life. Taxes were on the up, the IMF were on the way and there was a cash for gold outlet in Foxrock Village. But the signs for recovery were good - for me, at least. I was the chief executive of one of the few businesses turning a profit in this town, a shredding company helping to dispose of the Celtic Tiger's dirty little secrets. And I was getting plenty of love action - as the boy-toy of an attractive sixty-year-old woman who was totally rolling in it. I never imagined myself ending up as a gigolo. But, as the saying goes, where there's a will, there's a way-hey-hey! With presents galore, sex on demand and a hot meal on the table every night, life was storting to look up again. All I had to do to aovid focking it up was to keep my chinos buttoned. And, well, you can probably guess how that went.
Trouble In The Glen
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Author : Maurice Walsh
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Trouble In The Glen written by Maurice Walsh and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Trouble in the Glen" by Maurice Walsh. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.