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	Famous Irish - Roddy Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Doyle, Roddy
		Doyle was the Dublin northsider's pride and joy, until a brutally frank film about domestic abuse (Family, later developed on page as the extraordinary The Woman who Walked into Doors) was seen as over-dramatised betrayal.
		Doyle's greatest portrayals of dignity in degradation are Jimmy Rabbitte coping with unemployment in The Van and alcoholic, abused Paula, Doyle's only first-person narrator, in The Woman who Walked into Doors.
		Doyle has also written two plays, War (1989), about a pub quiz, and Brownbread (1993), in which a bishop is kidnapped.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-60,00.html (541 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)

	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
		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)

	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 (1290 words)

	HPL: Muggle Encyclopedia: D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Roddy Doyle
		Roddy Doyle enjoys the challenge of writing a realistic novel, one that will stir the hearts and minds of the readers, but without any first hand knowledge on the subject.
		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 in each and every one of his novels is able to convey in a comedic and serious tone, the true nature of the situation.
	www.usna.edu /EnglishDept/ilv/doyle.htm (1412 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS by Roddy Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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/woman_who_walked_into_doors.asp (1097 words)

	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).
		In the past, Doyle's raw portrayal of working-class Ireland has received as much censure as praise in his native country.
		In Doyle's world, the lives are tough, and the language is rough, but beauty and tenderness survive amid the bleakness.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Doyle.html (674 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)

	Books at Random House of Canada - Author Spotlight: Roddy Doyle
		Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958.
		Roddy Doyle’s last novel, A Star Called Henry, was chosen by the The New York Times Book Review as one of the eleven Best Books of the Year; The Washington Post said it was “not only Doyle’s best novel yet; it is a masterpiece, an extraordinarily entertaining epic.” Now Doyle, author...
		By the bestselling author of The Commitments and The Snapper, The Van is a tender tale of male friendship, swimming in grease and stained with ketchup.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/author.pperl?authorid=7401 (447 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)

	Rody Doyle Critique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Powells.com Interviews - Roddy Doyle
		Doyle: No, not that I know of, but I've only been home five days in the last five or six weeks, so I feel a bit out of touch.
		Doyle: I was given it on Saturday, yeah.
		Doyle: In The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, music allowed me, without getting boring and pedantic, to put a kind of date on her life.
	www.powells.com /authors/doyle.html (4126 words)

	Amazon.com: The Woman Who Walked into Doors: Books: Roddy Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Roddy Doyle follows Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Commitments with another remarkable book that readers will find funny, sexy, and sad.
		Doyle's novel about a battered, working-class woman, PW wrote in a starred review, displays "a perception that is rare [and] a compassion that is scorching..
		When Doyle finally gets to the details of the abuse, the words are relentlessly pulverizing, and we as readers can almost feel the blows, feeling exhausted by the end, imagining what this woman has endured.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140255125?v=glance (2032 words)

	Salon Books \| Bad blood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Roddy Doyle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Doyle's novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award in 1993.
		His outlook on writing is, "If writers want to write, they want to write, and they should be left alone, I am no mentor and I don't think I'd be doing anyone any favours if I said,--come on, lets do it this way--we'll leave the cloning to the sheep" (Cullen).
		As Keen notes, "The Booker Prize-winning novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha explores with remarkable subtlety the development of a small boy's interiority and empathy, as he simultaneously masters language and discovers a new understanding of pain." The novel is the most commercially successful Booker winner to date and is now available in nineteen languages.
	www.yudev.com /mfo/britlit/doyle_roddy.htm (540 words)

	Annotated Bibliography
		Doyle’s works are used as evidence, along with other literary connections serving to support the thesis.
		- A collection of three novels by Roddy Doyle that chronicle episodes from the lives of the Rabbitte family in the fictional working-class Dublin suburb of Barrytown.
		Doyle is mentioned in the section on contemporary Irish Literature.
	www.msu.edu /~rossjoh3/eng310d/bib.html (669 words)

	Literary Review: Something of a Hero: An Interview with Roddy Doyle - Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Roddy Doyle, born in 1958, is one of the new breed of young Irish artists who came of age in the 1960s and 70s.
		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.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2078/is_4_42/ai_56184292 (519 words)

	Pages in an Irish family album / Roddy Doyle's parents paint a vivid picture of midcentury Dublin
		Doyle is one of the foremost Irish writers of the past quarter century.
		Doyle has done an amazing job of shaping his parents' history into a compelling narrative.
		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.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/24/RV99075.DTL (864 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Overlong, overrated and unmoving: Roddy Doyle's verdict on James Joyce's Ulysses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Roddy Doyle, the Booker prize winner and the bard of raucous Dublin demotic, chose a Joyce birthday celebration to slam the epic story of one day in the life of Leopold Bloom as overrated, overlong and unmoving.
		The timing of Doyle's outburst could hardly have been worse, with the centenary of Bloomsday, the date on which Ulysses is set, looming.
		Doyle said the Bloomsday celebrations should be put on hold for five years, to "save us the trouble of having to shoot him or deport him or something."
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1144561,00.html (842 words)

	Roddy Doyle, Ha Ha Ha - Arts and Culture
		Throughout the evening, Doyle entertained the audience with his dry wit, covering such topics as his latest work, book reviews, the roles of church and state, and most prominently, the identity of the Irish people themselves.
		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.
		Doyle refuted this definition by reference to himself: "I'm a shade of white, but I haven't thought of myself as Catholic since I was about 17 or so, and I never spoke Irish beyond what I learned in school."
	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 (505 words)

	Rory & Ita by Roddy Doyle
		When Roddy’s parents put down a deposit of two hundred pounds for a house in rural Kilbarrack, on the edge of Dublin, Rory was working as a compositor at the Irish Independent.
		By the time the first of their four children was born, he had become a teacher at the School of Printing in Dublin.
		Then, their home began to change (“Kilbarrack wasn’t a rural place any more”) along with the rest of the country, as the intensely Catholic society of their youth was transformed into the vibrant, complex Ireland of today.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676975673&view=print (583 words)

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