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Roddy Doyle (born Roderick Doyle, 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories.
May 2, 2024 · Roddy Doyle is an Irish author known for his unvarnished depiction of the working class in Ireland, particularly in his home city of Dublin. Since his literary debut in the 1980s, Doyle’s distinctively Irish settings, style, mood, and phrasing have made him a favorite fiction writer in his own country as well as overseas.
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Mar 16, 2020 · Roddy Doyle is one of Ireland's best-loved writers, the success of his Barrytown Trilogy and the film adaptation of The Commitments brought Irishness to the global stage in an...
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- May 8, 1958
- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
- The Commitments (The Barrytown Trilogy, #1; Jimmy Rabbitte, #1)
- The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (Paula Spencer, #1)
- A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup, #1)
Jun 16, 2024 · Podcast: The Writer’s Voice Listen to Roddy Doyle read “The Buggy.” Maybe that was what had happened here. The frame had given up as the buggy was pushed—shoved, forced—across the sand.
Apr 17, 2011 · Doyle's freewheeling depiction of a Dublin childhood achieved moderate popular acclaim on publication, but its triumph at the Booker in 1993 turned Doyle into a bona fide...
May 19, 2024 · Roddy Doyle: The hate mail and death threats started in the spring of 1994. Thirty years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is still an ugly...
