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Whats the book?

irishguy · 2005-09-06 18:08:37

Ok I remember someone on holidays telling about a book written by an Irish Times journalist. It’s a comedy that started out as a column in the Irish Times about a Dublin knocker or teenager [can’t remember which] and is written as a journal. It then become popular and was published as a book. That’s all I can remember of…

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06-09-2005 7:08pm

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Ok I remember someone on holidays telling about a book written by an Irish Times journalist. It’s a comedy that started out as a column in the Irish Times about a Dublin knocker or teenager [can’t remember which] and is written as a journal. It then become popular and was published as a book.

That’s all I can remember of it [I was a bit drunk at the time]
Does ring a bell with anyone?

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#2 06-09-2005 7:10pm
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Would that be Ross O'Carroll-Kelly or the like?

There was a thread upon that very subject in this forum in recent times.

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#3 06-09-2005 7:12pm
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Here

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#4 06-09-2005 7:46pm
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there's four of them,

the miseducation years
the teenage dirtbag years
the orange mocha-chip frappuccion years
ps i scored the bridesmaids

there about a dickhead call ross o' carroll-kelly.
written by paul howard.

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#5 06-09-2005 8:31pm
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There **** btw.

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#6 07-09-2005 10:31am
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alot of people would disagree franky.

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#7 07-09-2005 12:43pm
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He's not an Irish Times journalist, as far as I know - the Times wouldn't let such claptrap into their hallowed pages... He writes for the Sunday Tribune, every week there's a royshian column on the back page.

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#8 07-09-2005 1:40pm
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dudara wrote:

Would that be Ross O'Carroll-Kelly or the like?

There was a thread upon that very subject in this forum in recent times.

I think thats it. Have many people here read any of them? are they any good?

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#9 07-09-2005 1:45pm
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supersheep wrote:

He's not an Irish Times journalist, as far as I know - the Times wouldn't let such claptrap into their hallowed pages... He writes for the Sunday Tribune, every week there's a royshian column on the back page.

I don't think the Irish Times' core demographic would appreciate their kids having the piss ripped out of them. Great books. Provided you remember they are actually fiction and don't let it bias you

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#10 07-09-2005 2:09pm
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I would have thought that the Indo would be more suitable for the parents of the royshians - after all, it plays more to their prejudices. The Irish Times wouldn't run through an estate shouting affluence, but I could see the Indo doing it.

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#11 07-09-2005 2:14pm
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Franky Boy wrote:

There **** btw.

Where is it, are they there?

Or perhaps did you mean they're? please make sensible comments

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#12 07-09-2005 6:37pm
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dudara wrote:

Where is it, are they there?

Or perhaps did you mean they're? please make sensible comments

you obviously understood what he meant. oh sorry, the y should be capitalised there.

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#13 08-09-2005 3:38pm
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humbleCounty wrote:

you obviously understood what he meant. oh sorry, the y should be capitalised there.

har de har. You so funny

Seriously, my real gripe with his post what that he didn't say why he felt that the books were bad.

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