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Paul Howard on his first non-Ross novel: ‘Humour can puncture pomposity. Which is why pompous people don’t like it’
As a child in Dublin the the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly author was ‘heavily incentivised’ to lose his English accent
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- The Irish Times
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- Ireland
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- 23 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
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- Patrick Freyne
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As a child in Dublin the the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly author was ‘heavily incentivised’ to lose his English accent
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Paul Howard on his first non-Ross novel: ‘Humour can puncture pomposity. Which is why pompous people don’t like it’
As a child in Dublin the the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly author was ‘heavily incentivised’ to lose his English accent
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