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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.
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.
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.
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...
May 18, 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...
Roddy Doyle (Irish: Ruaidhrí Ó Dúill) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He won the Booker Prize in 1993. Doyle grew up in Kilbarrack, Dublin.
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 phenomenon. The book...
