Roddy Doyle

The Deportees and Other Stories is the first short story collection by Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle first published by Jonathan Cape in 2007. All the stories were written for Metro Éireann, a multicultural paper aimed at Ireland's immigrant population and explore their experiences. The stories were written …

The Snapper is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle and the second novel in The Barrytown Trilogy. The plot revolves around unmarried Sharon Rabbitte's pregnancy, and the unexpected effects this has on her conservative, working class Dublin family. In the Rabbite household, unwed motherhood isn't the disaster it might …

The Commitments is de debuutroman van de Ierse schrijver Roddy Doyle uit 1987. Het gaat over een groep arme jongeren uit Dublin die een soulband willen beginnen. In 1991 werd het verhaal verfilmd door Alan Parker. Onder andere Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Bronagh Gallagher, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Glen Hansard en …