''Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to (South) Dublin: How To Get By On, Like, €10,000 A Day'' is a 2008 faux-

travel guide A guide book or travel guide is "a book of information about a place designed for the use of visitors or tourists". It will usually include information about sights, accommodation, restaurants, transportation, and activities. Maps of varying det ...

by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, as part of the

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a satirical fictional Irish character, a wealthy South County Dublin rugby union jock created by journalist Paul Howard. The character first appeared in a January 1998 column in the ''Sunday Tribune'' newspaper and late ...

series. It takes the form of a tourist guide to

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, written by Ross and his friends. The title refers to a common travel guide title, "How to get by on

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a day", where

is a small sum, e.g. $10.

Reception

In the ''

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'', Kim Bielenberg called it "wincingly accurate" and praised its description of the (lack of) atmosphere at

Leinster Rugby Leinster Rugby ( ga, Rugbaí Laighean) is one of the four professional provincial rugby union teams from the island of Ireland and the most successful Irish team domestically. They compete in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby ...

games. In the same paper, John Meagher said it "arguably gave the greatest insight to this milieu of all his books, and it's something of an essential text for those who might have forgotten just how mad the spend, spend, spend

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years were." In ''

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'', Katherine Farmar said "A great deal of the humour of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly books comes from Ross's distinctive voice - that oh-so-recognisable combination of

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, complete lack of

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, and bizarre slang. The ''Guide to South Dublin'' is written in a faux-objective voice that blunts the edge of Howard's satire." She added that "there's a surprising amount of purely factual information here that is not particularly funny in itself, nor is it presented in a funny way," but did praise some of the jokes: "The funniest parts of the Guide to South Dublin are the parts that take Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's typical bluntness and apply it to targets he's too self-involved or not bright enough to aim for, carefully treading the fine line between fact and fantasy." ''Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's Guide to (South) Dublin'' was nominated for Best Irish-Published Book at the

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References

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