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Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs is a 2014 book by Irish author Paul Howard and is the fourteenth novel in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.[1]

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  1. 29 relations: Blue plaque, Celtic Tiger, Downturn Abbey, Dublin, First World problem, Grotesque, Ian O'Doherty, Irish Book Awards, Irish Independent, Jumping the shark, Kalashnikov rifle, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Paul Howard (writer), Penguin Books, Piracy off the coast of Somalia, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Republic of Ireland, Roddy Doyle, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Seedless in Seattle, Sitcom, Social realism, The Irish Times, Uganda, Upper middle class, Valentine's Day, Vanessa O'Loughlin, Vernacular, Working class.

  2. 2014 Irish novels
  3. Fiction set in 2012
  4. Fiction set in 2013
  5. Novels about kidnapping
  6. Novels set in Uganda
  7. Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Blue plaque

A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Celtic Tiger

The "Celtic Tiger" (An Tíogar Ceilteach) is a term referring to the economy of Ireland from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s, a period of rapid real economic growth fuelled by foreign direct investment.

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Downturn Abbey

Downturn Abbey is a 2013 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and the thirteenth in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs and Downturn Abbey are fiction set in 2012, Penguin Books books and Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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First World problem

First World problem is an informal term for the issues in First World nations that are complained about in response to the perceived absence of more pressing concerns.

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Grotesque

Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.

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Ian O'Doherty

Ian O'Doherty (born November 1971) is an opinion columnist.

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Irish Book Awards

The Irish Book Awards are Irish literary awards given annually to books and authors in various categories.

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Irish Independent

The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.

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Jumping the shark

The idiom "jumping the shark" or "jump the shark" is a term that is used to argue that a creative work or entity has reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with, or an extreme exaggeration of, its original purpose.

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Kalashnikov rifle

Kalashnikov rifles (Автоматы Калашникова), also known as the AK platform, AK rifles or simply the AK, are a family of assault rifles based on Mikhail Kalashnikov's original design.

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Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Keeping Up with the Kardashians (often abbreviated KUWTK) is an American reality television series which focused on the personal and professional lives of the Kardashian–Jenner blended family.

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Paul Howard (writer)

Paul Howard (born 6 January 1971) is an Irish journalist, author and comedy writer.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Piracy off the coast of Somalia

Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places and has a long troubled history with different perspectives from different communities. Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs and Piracy off the coast of Somalia are Piracy in Somalia.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Roddy Doyle

Roderick Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.

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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.

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Seedless in Seattle

Seedless in Seattle is a 2015 book by Irish author Paul Howard and is the fifteenth novel in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. Keeping Up with the Kalashnikovs and Seedless in Seattle are fiction set in 2013, Penguin Books books and Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.

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Sitcom

A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.

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Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structures behind these conditions.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Upper middle class

In sociology, the upper middle class is the social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.

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Vanessa O'Loughlin

Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin is an Irish literary coach.

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Vernacular

Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.

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Working class

The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.

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See also

2014 Irish novels

Fiction set in 2012

Fiction set in 2013

Novels about kidnapping

Novels set in Uganda

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_Up_with_the_Kalashnikovs

Also known as Keeping up with the Kalashnikovs (book).