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Roddy Doyle – Lioness at Large

Roddy Doyle

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Roddy DoyleBiographical Sketch

Roddy Doyle (Irish: Ruaidhrí Ó Dúill; born Dalkey/Dublin, Ireland, May 8, 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.

Doyle is the author of ten novels for adults, seven books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into successful films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991, which won a BAFTA Best Screenplay award. Doyle’s work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. After achieving worldwide critical acclaim, Doyle is now recognized as one of Ireland’s greatest living writers. His idiosyncratic use of language and dialect, in particular, has received a substantial amount of critical and scholarly attention. – In addition to writing, Doyle, along with Seán Love, established a creative writing centre, Fighting Words, which opened in Dublin in January 2009.

Read more about Roddy Doyle on Wikipedia.

Major Awards and Honors

Man Booker Prize (Great Britain)
  • 1993: “Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha”
Irish PEN Award for Literature
  • 2009
Irish Book Awards
  • 2008: Best Irish Children’s Book (senior) – “Wilderness”
British National Book Awards
  • 1994: Author of the Year
Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain)
  • 2003: Fellow
BAFTA Award
  • 1991: Best Adapted Screenplay – “The Commitments”

 

Bibliography

Novels
  • The Barrytown Pentalogy:
    • The Commitments (1987)
    • The Snapper (1990)
    • The Van (1991)
    • Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha (1993)
    • The Guts (2013)
  • The Paula Spencer Novels:
    • The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1996)
    • Paula Spencer (2006)
  • The Last Roundup:
    • A Star Called Henry (1999)
    • Oh, Play That Thing! (2004)
    • The Dead Republic (2010)
Two Pints
  • The Complete Two Pints (2021)
    • Two Pints (2012)
    • Two More Pints (2014)
    • Two Pints: The Play (2017)
    • Two for the Road (2019)
    • The Zoom Pints (2021)
Novellas and Short Stories
  • Finbar’s Hotel (1997)
    – Contributor.
  • Not Just for Christmas (1999)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • The Slave (2000)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • Yeats Is Dead! (2002)
    – Contributor.
  • Recuperation (2003)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • The Child (2004)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • Mad Weekend (2006)
    – Novella.
  • The Deportees and Other Stories (2007)
    – Collection of short stories.
  • Teaching (2007)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • The Dog (2007)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • Click (2007)
    – Contributor.
  • Sleep (2008)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • Bullfighting (2008)
    – Collection of short stories.
  • The Bandstand (2009)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • Ash (2010)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • Brilliant (2011)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • Box Sets (2014)
    – Stand-alone short story.
  • Dead Man Talking (2015)
    – Novella.
Plays and Screenplays
  • Brownbread (1987)
  • War (1989)
  • The Commitments (1991)
    – Screenplay.
  • The Snapper (1993)
    – Screenplay.
  • Family (1994)
    – Screenplay.
  • The Van (1996)
    – Screenplay.
  • When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
    – Screenplay.
  • The Woman Who Walked into Doors (2003)
  • The Playboy of the Western World (2007)
    – Rewrite of the 1907 play by John Millington Synge, with Bisi Adigun.
  • New Boy (2008)
    – Screenplay.
  • Two Pints (2017)
  • The Snapper (2018)
    – Stage play.
  • Rosie (2018)
    – Screenplay.
Children’s Fiction
  • Not Just for Christmas (1999)
    – Novella.
  • The Rover Adventures:
    • The Giggler Treatment (2000)
    • Rover Saves Christmas (2002)
    • The Meanwhile Adventures (2004)
    • Rover and the Big Fat Baby (2016)
  • Wilderness (2007)
  • Her Mother’s Face (2008)
  • A Greyhound of a Girl (2011)
Memoirs
  • Rory and Ita (2002)
  • The Second Half (2014)

 

A Selection of Quotes

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

“Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.”

Yeats Is Dead!

“She’d tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.”

Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life

“To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.”

 

Find more quotes by Roddy Doyle on Goodreads.

 

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