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 | | Roddy Doyle in each and every one of his novels is able to convey in a comedic and serious tone, the true nature of the situation. | | | Roddy Doyle continues to use his phenomenal ability to balance comedy and tragedy in what some have called his best novel to date. | | | Roddy Doyle has been described by those who know him as modest and unassuming. |
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http://www.usna.edu/EnglishDept/ilv/doyle.htm
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| | Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle: Reviews |
| | But the real pleasure is witnessing Doyle's continual evolution as a stylist, expanding his stories beyond the fabulous dialogue of his earlier novels with gritty atmosphere and astonishing physicality. | | | Doyle displays his trademark sensitivity and wit in a tale full of adventure, passion, and prose as punchy as a Satchmo riff. | | | Doyle writes with a voice that rings like a note crying out of a burnished cornet. |
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http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/doyleroddy/ohplaythatthing
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| | Powells.com Interviews - Roddy Doyle |
| | Doyle: No, in fact, these books are generally quite old-fashioned. | | | Doyle: Which is another good reason for breaking it up. | | | But for all Doyle's narrative acrobatics, his amazing new novel is, more than anything, an enthralling, spilling-over-its-sides story. |
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http://www.powells.com/authors/doyle.html
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| | Doyle.html |
| | His first three novels, known as the Barrytown trilogy, focused on the Rabbittes, a family of eight whose lives are a mixture of "high comedy, depressing poverty and domestic chaos" (Turbide). | | | "Doyle's early novels rely very heavily on pure scene, in which dialogue rather than inner thoughts dominates" (Keen). | | | Those who know him describe the man as modest and unassuming. |
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http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Doyle.html
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| | Famous Irish - Roddy Doyle |
| | Just as significantly, it was after this book that he decided to devote himself to writing full-time. | | | Anyone who has the least bit of familiarity with English literature knows that many of the English language's best writers have been Irish. | | | In addition to being extremely well-written and funny, the novels making up the Barrytown Trilogy were unique in several ways. |
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http://www.irishclans.com/articles/famirish/doyler.html
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| | Rory & Ita by Roddy Doyle |
| | This magnificent book is not only a biography of, but also a love letter to Roddy’s parents, Rory and Ita. | | | Rory and Ita tells -- largely in their own words -- the story of Roddy Doyle’s parents’ lives from their first memories to the present. | | | “Doyle’s remarkable strength as a writer includes his ability to take the hardscrabble realities of Irish life, highlight its casual cruelties and kindnesses, inject the country’s trademark black humour, and weave it all into a coherent tale that resonates to readers elsewhere.” |
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http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676975673&view=print
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| | Salon Books Bad blood |
| | And its bitterness, its vision of history reaching forward to make a dead end of the present, is palpable in Roddy Doyle's new novel, "A Star Called Henry," as well, rising over the course of the book until it's overwhelming. | | | The rapport between Henry and Climanis is natural and unforced, but this makes it impossible to trust in an atmosphere where killing has the everyday and personal touch of a neighbor greeting a neighbor. | | | The cover shows a smiling boy on a Dublin street and prepares you for Doyle's special gift for depicting rude, unsentimental cheer amid privation. |
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http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/1999/09/07/doyle
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| | Annotated Bibliography |
| | Doyle is mentioned in the section on contemporary Irish Literature. | | | The book contains analysis of general types of comic figures and those of James Joyce. | | | - A 1999 interview with Doyle focusing on A Star Called Henry, then his most recent work. |
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http://www.msu.edu/~rossjoh3/eng310d/bib.html
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| | Rody Doyle Critique |
| | There are several things which the author should consider to make the discussion of Doyle more complete. | | | The author uses this merely as background and as a platform for beginning the main body of the paper. | | | By discussing more than one work, the author would have been able to more effectively presented this argument. |
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http://www.usna.edu/EnglishDept/ilv/crit/doylecrit.htm
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| | ReadingGroupGuides.com - A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle |
| | Roddy Doyle plans to make Henry's tale a trilogy. | | | Using a compelling first-person fictional narrative, Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle lets Henry tell his own story, revealing this young man's heroism, as well as the tumultuous era in which he lived. | | | Since this young man is such a survivor, his life promises to be a long one, bursting with adventures enough to fill at least two more novels. |
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http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/star_called_henry1.asp
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| | Amazon.com: The Woman Who Walked into Doors (Thorndike Large Print General Series): Books: Roddy Doyle |
| | The focus of Doyle's story is a fairly unremarkable housewife in contemporary Dublin who has the unexciting name of Paula Spencer. | | | The beauty of Doyle's writing is in the minor, day-to-day details he mentions, making Paula so real. | | | I recently read and discussed the Irish author Roddy Doyle's amazing work of voice and dialogue, "The Woman Who Walked Into Doors"(1997) in a novel writing course. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786208317?v=glance
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| | A review of Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle :: The Compulsive Reader :: A Haven for Book Lovers |
| | Doyle is quite irreverent with Armstrong’s memory, and the story has its own impetus which is quite different from the naturalistic form. | | | Doyle’s prose is as seductive and poetic as Henry‘s, and creates an evocative main character whose motivations and fears come from a place deeper than the present: | | | The story is almost breathlessly engaging at times, especially when Henry is facing the gun, and Doyle’s love of language, and ability to traverse the homeless character of the exile is obvious. |
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http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=913&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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| | Salon The Salon Interview: Roddy Doyle |
| | His latest, "A Star Called Henry," is the first in what will be several volumes depicting Doyle's hero, Henry Smart, as he makes his way through 20th century Ireland. | | | Much of "The Barrytown Trilogy" is written in dialogue. | | | The author of "The Commitments" and "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" talks about Ireland, violence and the true nature of family. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/28/doyle/print.html
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| | Penguin Reading Guides Oh, Play That Thing Roddy Doyle |
| | An extraordinary man to be sure, Henry is also every man who ever hoped for a different kind of life and a better future. | | | He is also the author of the novels Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993 Booker Prize winner), The Woman Who Walked into Doors, and A Star Called Henry, and a non-fiction book about his parents, Rory & Ita. | | | What do you think should happen to make Henry's life complete and why? |
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http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/rguides/us/oh_play_that_thing.html
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| | Metroactive Books Roddy Doyle |
| | Doyle gets his good reviews and the odd tribute/profile, but these pieces often evince a cautious quality, as if critics were hesitant to praise a writer who is so successful and whose work translates so easily into good movies. | | | Doyle's critical reputation has lagged a bit behind some of his contemporary countrymen--Patrick McCabe and Dermot Healy, for instance--largely because of his popularity. | | | Doyle uses style for an opposite effect--to illuminate his characters from the inside out. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.16.96/books-9620.html
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| | A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle, Book Review in America, the Catholic magazine with book reviews, news, opinion & ... |
| | Our picaresque hero Henry Smart gets to tell his own story in his own way, but Doyle introduces plenty of crisp dialogue to relieve the burden of a single point of view. | | | America, the weekly Catholic magazine of book reviews, news, opinion and articles for thinking Catholics and those who want to know what Catholics are thinking. | | | A Star Called Henry Roddy Doyle, Book Review in America, the Catholic magazine with book reviews, news, opinion & Catholic book store |
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http://www.americamagazine.org/BookReview.cfm?articleTypeID=31&textID=2138&issueID=276
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| | BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Roddy Doyle |
| | Doyle's Kilbarrack/Barrytown describes a bleak modern cityscape that has nothing in common with the literary landscape of Joyce and Yeats, or even of Behan and O'Casey. | | | Fatherhood and its failure is a constant theme in Doyle's books, as it is also one of the main themes of 20-century Irish writing. | | | In 1999, Doyle moved out of the domestic setting of his previous work with his novel A Star Called Henry, describing scenes from the Irish War of Independence seen through the eyes of Henry Smart, a precocious Dublin street urchin who becomes an IRA assassin. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/doyler2.shtml
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| | MetroActive Books Roddy Doyle |
| | Maybe, but Roddy Doyle would have to be consulted for the seamy underside--the sewers, the back alleys and the docks, the smithy that forges Henry's soul, a soul he seems to find near the novel's end. | | | Now, with A Star Called Henry, the story of a Dublin street urchin who grows up to be a chillingly efficient I.R.A. killer, Doyle is on the verge of having a table all to himself. | | | WOODY ALLEN was probably right when he said that comedy sits at the children's table--at least that's what most critics seem to believe. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.04.99/lq-doyle-9944.html
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| | Roddy Doyle, Frank McCourt, et al, Yeats is Dead! |
| | Roddy Doyle gives the book a wonderful start, his chapter setting the scene with a dead eccentric, a pair of variably bumbling enforcers/police officers, an ominous and mysterious boss and a host of possibilities. | | | Still, the book was engrossing in part because I wanted to see how each author would treat the previous authors' work. | | | Doyle's chapter is intriguing and funny -- at times, uproarious. |
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http://www.rambles.net/doyle_etal_yeats.html
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| | Roddy Doyle, Ha Ha Ha - Arts and Culture |
| | It would appear that in attempting to discuss history, Roddy Doyle succeeded in commenting on the present day in his distinctly witty, dry fashion. | | | After muddling through most of the interview, constantly modifying what he was saying to fit the idea that there might just be four sections to the book, Doyle finally interrupted him again and said: "I was only joking, there are only three." | | | Doyle described the life of his novel's protagonist Henry Smart in 1920s America, adapting to life as both an Irishman and an American, living in conflict with the numerous other cultures that inhabited the cities. |
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http://media.www.thestrand.ca/media/storage/paper404/news/2004/10/06/ArtsAndCulture/Roddy.Doyle.Ha.Ha.Ha-746031.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thestrand.ca&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
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| | Eye - BOOKS: Roddy Doyle -- Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - 08.19.93 |
| | Perfect tragicomic fodder for Doyle, and a perfect complement to his best book yet. | | | The passage in which Paddy describes his favorite saint's story, that of Father Damien and the lepers, portrays the value of a child's imaginative powers without getting mushy about it all. | | | Narrated by the 10-year-old Paddy, it's a different sort of book than the novels of the Barrytown trilogy (so named for their setting in Barrytown, a working class suburb of Dublin). |
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http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_08.19.93/ARTS/bo0819a.htm
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| | Roddy Doyle - QuickTopic free message board hosting |
| | It was the first of Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy - succeeded by The Snapper and The Van - with the same family linking all three books. | | | "The Commitments was originally published by Doyle himself in 1986. | | | Doyle has spoken quite often about the arbitrary decision to call them a "trilogy" -- saying something like, trilogy sounded better than "the three books about the same family". |
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http://www.quicktopic.com/28/H/yKb6i9m8FDEcC
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts Author Doyle slams legend Joyce |
| | Irish author Roddy Doyle has attacked literary legend James Joyce's novel Ulysses, branding it overrated. | | | James Joyce's novel caused uproar in the 1920s | | | Doyle, famous for works like Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, also said the follow-up to Ulysses, the notoriously difficult Finnegan's Wake - written in the stream-of-consciousness style - was "a complete waste of time", adding he had only read three pages of it. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3475577.stm
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| | TomFolio.com: by Roddy Doyle |
| | Here in one volume are Roddy Doyle's three famous and award-winning novels set in Barrytown, north Dublin, and featuring the Rabbite family, their triumphs and their tragedies. | | | F/NF First Edition Hardcover; First Printing DJ PRICE CLIPPED. | | | Doyle, Roddy The Woman Who Walked Into Doors Publisher: Minerva 1997. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Oh, Play That Thing: Books |
| | Doyle stumbles somewhat in this sequel to his excellent 1999 bestseller, A Star Called Henry. | | | Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Authors, A-Z > (D) > Doyle, Roddy | | | Worse, Doyle takes Henry Smart's charm for granted; readers unfamiliar with his previous adventures may roll their eyes at his arrogance and incessant sexual encounters. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0676976875
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| | Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
| | Other works that involve the sleuthing of the great detective include The Sign of the Four (1890), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905), His Last Bow (1917), and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). | | | Doyle abandoned his medical practice in 1890 and devoted his time to writing. | | | Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (kō`nən, kŏn`ən), 1859–1930, British author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, b. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Doyle,+Sir+Arthur+Conan
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| | Sunday Herald, The: Something In The Eire; Roddy Doyle's latest novel Oh, Play That |
| | For the first time, one of Doyle's stories has taken him far from the streets he knows. | | | DUBLIN is the one city where people in the street know Roddy Doyle when they see him. | | | It's the only place he has ever lived, and up until his new novel Oh, Play That Thing!, it was the only place he ever set his stories. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20040912/ai_n12590903
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| | Pages in an Irish family album / Roddy Doyle's parents paint a vivid picture of midcentury Dublin |
| | The chronological chapters flow seamlessly into each other, both Rory and Ita describing certain events, giving us two points of view. | | | The book is mainly in their voices; Doyle mostly appears in the footnotes, which offer background on everything from translations of Irish words in the text to Halliwell's Film Guide descriptions of the films Rory and Ita mention seeing. | | | Roddy Doyle's parents paint a vivid picture of midcentury Dublin |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/24/RV99075.DTL
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| | Roddy Doyle |
| | The dates and publishers given here are for first editions. | | | However, I realise you may be looking for current editions, so in-print books by Roddy Doyle may be purchased directly from | | | He has written the scripts for films based on his novels, including The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van. |
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http://www.irishwriters-online.com/roddydoyle.html
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| | HPL: Muggle Encyclopedia: D |
| | Dahl is the author of several classic children's fantasy tales, such as | | | Doyle is cited as often as Jane Austen when Rowling is asked to name literary influences or favorite authors. | | | Further information about Doyle and his works can be found at |
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http://www.hp-lexicon.org/muggle/encyc/muggle-d.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha: Books |
| | Customers who bought books by Roddy Doyle also bought books by these authors: | | | Roddy Doyle has done something very unique with this book, we are understanding the world in which we live as a young boy. | | | Full of heart warming humour, family hardships and his realtionships with other people. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0749397357
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| | A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. | | | From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts his early years of reckless heroism and adventure. | | | At once an epic, a love story, and a portrait of Irish history, A Star Called Henry is a grand picaresque novel brimming with both poignant moments and comic ones, and told in a voice that is both quintessentially Irish and inimitably Roddy Doyle's. |
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http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140296131,00.html
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| | The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle - @forums |
| | It's a childrens book, but so funny and so full of little oddities that I am sure any adult would love it. | | | You won't find out until chapter 6 of Roddy Doyle's The Giggler Treatment, but for those of you who can't wait, here's the answer: Gigglers are "baby-sized and furry. | | | Their fur changes color as they move." Their main occupation in life is to look after children and to punish adults who are mean or unfair to them. |
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http://www.atforumz.com/showthread.php?t=282692
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| | The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk |
| | Shall I read a little kids book by Roddy Doyle instead? | | | Their revenge consists of making an unsuspecting adult step in poo, which is where Rover comes in. | | | Home > Books and Magazines > Printed Books > The Giggler Treatment - Roddy Doyle |
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http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/the-giggler-treatment-roddy-doyle
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| | Literary Review: Something of a Hero: An Interview with Roddy Doyle - Interview |
| | While teaching in 1987, he self-published his first novel, The Commitments, which was made into a film in 1991. | | | This work forms the Barrytown (a fictitious model of Doyle's own Kilbarrack) Trilogy with The Snapper (1992) and The Van (1993), both of which also were made into films. | | | In 1993, however, Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize for his fourth novel, Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha; the novel was described by the judges as a "funny, humane, and sad book" that established his literary reputation worldwide. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_4_42/ai_56184292
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Doyle, Roddy |
| | Roddy Doyle is inexhaustibly fascinated by his parents. | | | He's just written a third book for infants but Roddy Doyle is better known for the novels and films that depict a violent, impoverished Ireland. | | | Doyle has also written two plays, War (1989), about a pub quiz, and Brownbread (1993), in which a bishop is kidnapped. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-60,00.html
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| | RODDY DOYLE |
| | He is a man with a great sense of humour and a style of writing seldom seen in the works of other writers. | | | Two of his most popular novels are 'The Snapper', and 'The Van' (both of which successful films have been made), and are perfect examples of his style. | | | Roddy Doyle (38) is one of Ireland's most popular young writers and definitely one of the funniest. |
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http://www.aurora.komvux.norrkoping.se/crumlin/litera/01/roddy.htm
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| | Art for Amnesty :: Amnesty International :: Roddy Doyle |
| | Doyle is known for his social commentary, evident by his putting a voice to working class Dublin in the Barrytown Trilogy, and attacking hard-hitting issues such as domestic violence, extreme poverty, and racism. | | | The success of these novels was expanded when all three were made into hit movies, with Doyle writing the screenplay for each. | | | Born in 1958, Roddy Doyle spent fourteen years teaching in the north Dublin suburb of Kilbarrack, which became the setting for his acclaimed Barrytown trilogy of novels: The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van. |
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http://www.artforamnesty.org/view_artist.php?id=6
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| | In our town, Roddy Doyle walks back in time |
| | Roddy Doyle, bestselling author of The Commitments (also a big-screen hit), A Star Called Henry and several other highly acclaimed novels, has always been a musical writer. | | | And, to varying degrees, themes of music have always run through his work. | | | Well, I won't be around in 80 years to see if it's happening, but I do hope that's the way it's perceived. |
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| | Roddy Doyle- Vancouver International Writers Festival |
| | Roddy Doyle is one of Ireland& best contemporary novelists, acclaimed for his unsentimental view of the Irish working class. | | | His bestselling Barrytown Trilogy—The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van—was a critical and commercial success, with all three novels being adapted to film. | | | His other novels include The Woman Who Walked into Doors, A Star Called Henry and the latest, Oh, Play That Thing. |
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| | The Connection.org : Roddy Doyle |
| | Doyle's prose is still full of his signature grit and sex, where sweat and blood color all his characters. | | | His new book, "Oh Play That Thing&;, tells the story of Irish mobster Henry Smart who leaves the slums and hit man's life in Ireland to reinvent himself in a new world. | | | This is a story of becoming an American and living in an age of invention, racism, and loss. |
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http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/11/20041111_b_main.asp
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| | Essay or Coursework : “Paddy Clarke Ha ha ha” by Roddy Doyle |
| | Coursework and Essays: By Level: GCSE: English Literature: “Paddy Clarke Ha ha ha” by Roddy Doyl | | | Doyle's main focus in the book is to relate Paddy's changing and maturing personality throughout the novel, until the eager, content child at the beginning, has transformed into an insecure, self-sufficient adult, coping with the anxiety | | | It describes the development and change of the young hero Paddy Clarke, over a small section of his life. |
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http://www.coursework.info/i/4419.html
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| | The Van by Roddy Doyle |
| | That the author, a 33-year-old Dubliner, is also a vastly successful playwright will astonish no one who has read his superb dialogue. | | | The Van is not just a very funny book, it is also faultless comic writing. | | | While Doyle strives to remain invisible throughout, his habitually abrupt endings evince a careful crafting. |
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http://www.stokenewington.net/readinggroup/books/doyle.html
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| | Echo Weekly Online Edition |
| | A sequel to his acclaimed A Star Called Henry — which The | | | Washington Post said was “not only Doyle’s best novel yet; it is a | | | Acclaimed author Roddy Doyle appears in Guelph this Tuesday to |
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| | Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. | | | Roddy Doyle (born May 1958 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. | | | fa:رادی دویل fr:Roddy Doyle is:Roddy Doyle nl:Roddy Doyle |
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| | Irish novelist & screenwriter Roddy Doyle |
| | UAlbany professor and students research the brain and publish their findings >> | | | The film screening and Roddy Doyle’s lecture are free and open to the public; sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute located at the University at Albany. | | | Roddy Doyle’s movie based on the Booker-nominated prize novel, The Van, plays Thursday night at 7:30 p.m., in Page Hall at 135 Western Avenue on the University’s downtown campus. |
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http://www.albany.edu/main/features/2004/11-04/1doyle/doyle.html
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