Baa Baa Pink Sheep: A Devil’s Dictionary for Modern Ireland
Terry Prone
———————————————————
Book
€14.99
eBook
€9.99
———————————————————
Publication date: 2015
ISBN: 978-1-907535-78-9
Category: Humour
Type: Paperback/ebook
Price: €14.99/ebook: €9.99
In his Devil’s Dictionary, published as a book in 1906, the American writer and satirist Ambrose Bierce defined, among many other terms, abominable as ‘the quality of another’s opinions’, an egotist as ‘a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me’ and twice as ‘once too often’.
Terry Prone, herself a gifted word-spinner and keen observer of the ways of the world, politics, business and the media, has taken a leaf out of Bierce’s book and created a Devil’s Dictionary for today in which she lampoons the more ridiculous aspects of politicial correctness (the pink sheep) and the self-serving that has turned apology into ‘a lost art’.
Bail-out is ‘one of the few terms that has gone from being a positive to a negative in a decade’; belittling is ‘how inadequates convince themselves they’re adequate’; fiction is ‘lies told for money’; a Renaissance man is ‘a guy with at least two skills’; and vibrant is ‘how dying political parties always describe themselves’.
———————————————————
About the author
Terry Prone is Ireland’s leading media commentator and communications expert. She is the chair of The Communications Clinic in Dublin, a newspaper columnist and a frequent contributor on radio and television. She is the author of novels, short stories and works of non-fiction, including Write and Get Paid for It and Coach. Baa Baa Pink Sheep: A Devil's Dictionary for Modern Ireland is her most recent title for Londubh Books. She lives in a Martello tower on the coast near Dublin.