The Aisling (sometimes referred to as OMGWACA)[1][2] series of novels are five adult fiction books by Irish journalists and authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen.
[8][9] Aisling began as a stock character type, a "culchie" from "Ballygobackwards" (BGB),[10][11] up in the "big smoke" Dublin.
[3][4] Other stock characters, Mad Tom[11] Deddeh, Memmeh, Niamh and Fionn, all from "Across The Road" (FATR) were used by users in posts to describe Aisling's life and eccentricities.
[12] About Aisling, Sarra Manning, of Red Online, wrote that readers "laugh with her, never at her ... [admiring] her for the same traits that we don't necessarily value in ourselves.
[12] Síle Ní Choincheannain, of Mary I College has described the series as having "deftly captured a unique Irish archetype and modern heroine".