RO'CK of Ages: From Boom Days to Zoom Days | |
Author: | Paul Howard |
Illustrator: | Alan Clarke |
Cover Artist: | Alan Clarke |
Country: | Ireland |
Language: | English |
Series: | Ross O'Carroll-Kelly |
Genre: | Serial |
Publisher: | Sandycove |
Pub Date: | 1 April 2021 |
Media Type: | Paperback |
Set In: | Dublin, 2007–2020 |
Pages: | 368 |
Isbn: | 978-1-84488-569-5 |
Dewey: | 823.92 |
RO'CK of Ages: From Boom Days to Zoom Days is a 2021 book by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard, as part of the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.[1] [2] It is a compilation of newspaper columns previously published in The Irish Times between 2007 and 2021.[3] [4]
The title is a reference to the hymn "Rock of Ages", the Irish economic boom, and the use of Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5]
Eugene O'Brien wrote in an Irish Times review, "There is a truth in fiction, and in Howard's work, satire provides the mode for the telling of this truth. His parallel Ireland is a mirror though which we can smile at the “real” Ireland, but also learn more about it than it is often willing to teach."[6]
Niamh Donnelly, in the same paper, wrote that "[Ross'] misguided wisdom seems to grow ever more salient as the years go by."[7]