The Miseducation of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

The Miseducation of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: The Diary of a Schools Rugby Player is a 2000 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, and the first in the best-selling Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. It was adapted from a series of columns by Howard in the Sunday Tribune.[1][2][3]

The Miseducation of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
AuthorPaul Howard
Cover artistD. Gorman
CountryRepublic of Ireland
LanguageEnglish
SeriesRoss O'Carroll-Kelly
GenreComic novel, satire
Set inDublin, 1998–1999
PublisherSunday Tribune
Publication date
2000
Media typePaperback
Pages127
ISBN0-9526035-8-6
823.92
Followed byRoysh Here, Roysh Now… The Teenage Dirtbag Years 

The title refers to the Lauryn Hill album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which refers in turn to Carter G. Woodson's book The Mis-Education of the Negro.

Background

The novel has many allusions to American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, from the many prolonged descriptions of the clothes worn by the characters to specific scenes such as Ross dispensing advice on the appropriate type of shoe to wear with chinos, which is taken almost word-for-word from a similar passage in Ellis's work. Several details were altered from the newspaper column; in the newspaper, Simon was the captain of the rugby team and lifted the trophy with the words "For Mom! For Dad! For Rock! For God!" — in the novel, Ross is captain. Howard observed that "in the early days I was trying to make the character [of Ross] as hateful as possible."[4]

Plot

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly attends Castlerock College (a portmanteau of Castleknock College and Blackrock College), a prestigious South Dublin private secondary school, where academe takes a back seat to rugby union. He aims to lead the school to the Leinster Schools Rugby Senior Cup.

Release

Howard self-published the novel after several rejections, printing 5,000 copies and driving around Dublin selling copies to shops himself.[5][6] It was launched at Blackrock College RFC, where some members complained about the release of an "anti-rugby" book.[7]

The Miseducation Years
The Miseducation Years
AuthorPaul Howard
IllustratorAlan Clarke
Cover artistAlan Clarke
CountryRepublic of Ireland
LanguageEnglish
SeriesRoss O'Carroll-Kelly
GenreComic novel, satire
Set inDublin, 1998–1999
PublisherThe O'Brien Press
Publication date
2004
Media typePaperback
Pages246
ISBN0-86278-852-8
823.92
Followed byThe Teenage Dirtbag Years 

In 2004, a revised and expanded edition, titled The Miseducation Years, was published.[8]

References
  1. Howard, Paul (17 August 2000). "The miseducation of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly /". Sunday Tribune.
  2. Carey, Tim (3 November 2016). Dublin since 1922. Hachette Books Ireland. ISBN 9781473620018 – via Google Books.
  3. Maher, Eamon; O'Brien, Eugene (1 November 2015). From Prosperity to Austerity: A socio-cultural critique of the Celtic Tiger and its aftermath. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526101471 – via Google Books.
  4. Howard, Paul. "20 years of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly: Paul Howard's top 20 moments". The Irish Times.
  5. Kelly, Adam (24 August 2017). "The Re-education of Ross O'Carroll-Kelly". Éire-Ireland. 52 (1): 49–77. doi:10.1353/eir.2017.0003. S2CID 164632874.
  6. Tyaransen, Olaf. "Paul Howard opens up about Ross O'Carroll and Irish aristocrats". Hotpress.
  7. Siggins, Gerard. "How Ross O'Carroll-Kelly was born". The Irish Times.
  8. O'Carroll-Kelly, Ross (14 September 2012). Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, The Miseducation Years. The O'Brien Press. ISBN 9781847174406 – via Google Books.
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