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	Roddy Doyle - MSN Encarta
		Roddy Doyle (Irish : Ruaidhrí Ó Dúill, born 8 May 1958 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
		Roddy Doyle, born in 1958, Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, who achieved widespread recognition when his novel The Commitments was made into a popular motion picture in 1991 by British director Alan Parker.
		Doyle tackled Irish history in the novel A Star Called Henry (1999), which centers on the life and hardships of a dirt-poor character named Henry Smart who is born at the turn of the 20th century.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581093/Roddy_Doyle.html (463 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Roddy Doyle
		Doyle has had the fine fortune to have two of his novels made into pretty good feature films--The Commitments, directed by Alan Parker, and The Snapper, directed by Stephen Frears (a film of another novel, The Van, is due out this fall).
		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 climbed into the mind of a 10-year-old Dublin boy from the 1960s and evoked the terrors and exhilarations of a normal day.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.16.96/books-9620.html (706 words)

	Famous Irish - Roddy Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Doyle's next three books became increasingly more narrator driven and brought the serious aspect of his writing to the forefront, but his trademark humour always remained.
		This novel grew out of a mini-series titled Family that Doyle wrote for the BBC in 1994; both the novel and the series were critically acclaimed, but caused a stir for their realistic portrayal of domestic violence.
		Of all Doyle's books so far, this one is by far the most emotional and bleak of his works; the picture of living conditions of the poor in turn of the century Dublin are quite shocking and even hard to read at times.
	www.irishclans.com /articles/famirish/doyler.html (895 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Paula Spencer, by Roddy Doyle, Paperback, Reprint
		Doyle’s fans and new readers alike will root for Paula to stay clean and find a little healing for herself and her children, amidst the threat that it may all go wrong.
		Doyle’s depiction of a seething home life is penetrating, and Paula, as she patches a self together from remnants, emerges as an inspiring heroine without a hint of smarminess.
		Doyle, Booker Winner for Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha and author of The Commitments, does a lot in this novel by doing little: it is John Paul's quiet distance, for example, that serves as a constant reminder of the horrendous mother and pitiful alcoholic Paula used to be.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /Paula-Spencer/Roddy-Doyle/e/9780143112730 (2887 words)

	The writer who walked into RTE doors - Books, Entertainment - Independent.ie
		Roddy Doyle is one of the most successful Irish writers ever, a Booker Prize winning author and an award winning screenwriter.
		One friend of Roddy Doyle said that with the body of work he has behind him "he deserved to be treated in a certain way by RTE" and clearly this did not happen.
		One of the biggest successes ever on RTE was The Family, the searing four part drama by Doyle about the abusive husband Charlo, his wife Paula and their children, living in a tough estate in Dublin.
	www.independent.ie /entertainment/books/the-writer-who-walked-into-rte-doors-1378647.html (1386 words)

	Roddy Doyle Biography
		Roddy Doyle's novels have fundamentally changed the possibilities open to any fictional representation of Ireland in the late twentieth century and early twenty first.
		Doyle's novels are set outside the literary confines of central Dublin, among the post-war housing estates and the disenfranchised population; with his most recent novel he moves the style and simple assurance of his earlier work into the relatively surprising and unpopular genre of the Irish historical novel.
		Doyle's dialogue-driven style, in his use of slang, dialect, and dialogue, remains relatively constant across The Commitments and The Snapper, and thus his readers feel themselves to be back in the groove of the first novel.
	biography.jrank.org /pages/4276/Doyle-Roddy.html (1151 words)

	Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle: Reviews
		Doyle displays his trademark sensitivity and wit in a tale full of adventure, passion, and prose as punchy as a Satchmo riff.
		Doyle has always written brilliantly about popular music, and the Chicago section of Oh, Play That Thing (the title is from a King Oliver classic) throbs with the syncopation and verve of Chicago's 1920s jazz scene.
		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.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/doyleroddy/ohplaythatthing (1274 words)

	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.
		But underneath the playful and bizarre surface is the sadness that informs all Doyle's work as the 10-year-old narrator watches the estrangement of his parents and their eventual separation.
		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.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/doyler2.shtml (391 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Roddy Doyle
		In Roddy Doyle's case, critical acclaim lagged not only because he wrote terrific comic novels--The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van--but also because those acclaimed novels were made into successful movies.
		Doyle's new protagonist is Henry Smart--as in street-smart--the son of a hideously congenial one-legged thug who murders by splitting skulls with a detachable wooden leg.
		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.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.04.99/lq-doyle-9944.html (603 words)

	Doyle Roddy « Asylum
		In this, Doyle is still to some extent in embryonic form as a writer: there is less depth to the story than in the Paula Spencer books, but his ability to conjure a character almost exclusively from dialogue is fully present.
		Doyle never patronises his characters, but he doesn’t romanticise their lives either.
		Doyle expands into some impressively grim description when Sharon’s memories go back to the night in question, and her interior monologues in retrospect seem like stretching exercises for his later work.
	theasylum.wordpress.com /category/doyle-roddy (974 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
		Doyle's portrait of a working-class woman in contemporary Ireland illuminates many of the problems facing that country's working poor, yet Paula is a wonderfully unique character—honest about her feelings, fearless in her efforts to protect her family, subject to fits of anger and depression that threaten to undo all that she has accomplished.
		Roddy Doyle's lean prose and his uncanny ear for dialogue brilliantly offset the drama that unfolds as Paula tells her story.
		Roddy Doyle's first two novels, The Commitments and The Snapper, were made into critically acclaimed films, and the movie version of The Van will soon be completed.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides_W/woman_who_walked1.asp (1099 words)

	HPL: Muggle Encyclopedia: D (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louis Doyle was cast in the role of Ernie Macmillan in the Harry Potter films.
		Doyle is cited as often as Jane Austen when Rowling is asked to name literary influences or favorite authors.
		Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958 and each of his novels have enjoyed favorable critical attention as well as mass popularity.
	www.hp-lexicon.org /muggle/encyc/muggle-d.html (573 words)

	Goodreads \| The Deportees
		Possibly Doyle’s number one strength is his ability to capture the rhythm and character of speech; reading his dialogue really does make you feel like you’re listening in on a conversation on an O’Connell Street corner.
		At least in Roddy Doyle's intermittently charming collection of stories, first written in serial form for a Dublin weekly, these new Irish find themselves confronted by an old Irish society that is a strange and often amusing mixture of curiosity, impatience, clannish suspicion and big-hearted openness.
		Roddy Doyle beautifully portrays the difficulties experienced by immigrants to Ireland from eastern Europe and Africa, and their attempt to become "Irish." In the end he clearly makes the point the we are all human beings.
	www.goodreads.com /book/show/42710.The_Deportees (3424 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Commitments: Roddy Doyle: Books
		Here Doyle depicts the rowdy, two-fisted lives of the family and its neighbors as they deal with high unemployment and few opportunities, their wittiness and humor the only weapons against the bleak repetition of their days.
		Doyle's lightning-fast dialogue is filled with local dialect, crude profanities, witticisms, and can-you-top-this insults.
		Doyle understands his characters and identifies with them, presenting them sympathetically, while revealing the ironies in their lives.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Commitments-Roddy-Doyle/dp/0749391685 (624 words)

	Roddy Doyle: The sound of the city - Features, Books - The Independent
		Doyle chucked his hero into violent, erotic (and improbable) escapades across the slums and scams of Edwardian Dublin, and into the ruthless heart of revolutionary struggle.
		Doyle notes that Armstrong "bought a typewriter when he was 19 or 20 and carried it around for the rest of his life.
		Roddy Doyle was born in 1958 in Dublin, where his father taught printing.
	www.independent.co.uk /arts-entertainment/books/features/roddy-doyle-the-sound-of-the-city-546516.html (1891 words)

	Interview: Emma Brockes meets Roddy Doyle \| By genre \| guardian.co.uk Books
		Doyle is never so fervent as when talking about the sorts of characters who populated his early trilogy, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van: working-class kids with spirit, the legacy of 14 years of teaching.
		The joy of reading Doyle is for his language, the colloquial snap of his dialogue, which he locates alongside Monica Ali and Salman Rushdie in its combination of the familiar with the unfamiliar.
		Doyle's parents were bookish, but not what he calls "tweedy".
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1298006,00.html (1839 words)

	Rody Doyle Critique
		Roddy Doyle is a well known modern Irish writer.
		Doyle's life is also discussed in the essay.
		The author does an excellent job of showing the reader that Doyle must struggle to write about the subjects he does since they are quite foreign to him.
	www.usna.edu /EnglishDept/ilv/crit/doylecrit.htm (573 words)

	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.
		Leaving his family and thug life in Dublin (Doyle's current home), Smart emigrates to New York City and eventually makes his way to Chicago, where he meets up with, befriends and manages the blossoming career of trumpet prodigy Louis Armstrong.
		Speaking from a tour stop in Philadelphia, Doyle, 46, who'll land Sunday at the Chicago Humanities Festival to showcase his latest effort, reflected on jazz, the Chicago lit that informed his lyrical prose, and his dream of becoming a professional soccer player.
	www.suntimes.com /output/books/sho-sunday-doyle14.html (1367 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Oh, Play That Thing \| Roddy Doyle
		Telling Henry's epic story in his distinctive, captivating writing style, Roddy Doyle takes us breathlessly and effortlessly between two worlds, the Dublin of Henry's past and the cities and towns of America—very different places yet ironically very much the same.
		Roddy Doyle has also written the children's books The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, and The Meanwhile Adventures and contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker magazine and several anthologies.
		Roddy Doyle is planning on this being the second book in a trilogy.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/oh_play_that_thing.html (983 words)

	JohnMcFetridge: Roddy Doyle’s The Deportees
		What Roddy Doyle has done is completely different – he's written mostly about the immigrant experience from the point of view of born-and-raised Irish, in all the usual utterly frank and direct Doyle way.
		Doyle never stoops to presenting Larry (or anyone else in the book) as a stereotype, or racist buffoon, but he does have them ask themselves the tough questions.
		Roddy Doyle's doing it right; with insight and understanding and humour and the direct approach.
	johnmcfetridge.blogspot.com /2007/11/roddy-doyles-deportees.html (759 words)

	Something of a Hero: An Interview with Roddy Doyle.(Interview) - The Literary Review \| Encyclopedia.com
		An interview with Irish author Roddy Doyle is presented.
		Roddy Doyle, born in 1958, is one of the new breed of young Irish artists who came of age in the 1960s and 70s.
		He was raised in Kilbarrack, North Dublin, in a middle-class family quite different from the gritty, working-class characters of his books, plays, and film...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-56184292.html (161 words)

	Art for Amnesty :: Amnesty International :: Roddy Doyle
		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.
		In 1994, Doyle wrote a script for the BBC series Family, which provided the stimulus for his novel The Woman Who Walked Into Doors.
		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.
	www.artforamnesty.org /view_artist.php?id=6 (204 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
		Doyle’s love of language and acute ear for dialogue keep his narrative thrumming.
		Another of the sheer pleasures of Doyle’s writing is his lightness of touch, the way he keeps out of his characters’ paths.
		Doyle constructs his set-pieces and orders the narrative with a craft so unobtrusively elegant and clever that it demands a second reading.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676978445 (1128 words)

	Salon Books \| Bad blood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		In Doyle's novel -- set in the years 1900 to 1920, encompassing the 1916 Easter Rebellion and Ireland's eventual emergence as a republic -- brutality is casual, simply part of the territory.
		The constant in Roddy Doyle's novels has always been the author's empathy for his protagonists -- whether it was Jimmie Rabbitte Sr.
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/1999/09/07/doyle (621 words)

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