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No 639 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Last year I read Roddy Doyle’s The Woman Who Walked in to Doors and was stunned by his ability to so vividly inhabit the voice of a battered woman. In Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, I was stunned again, this time by his ability to so believably recreate the voice of a ten-year old boy.…
No 689 The Woman Who Walked in to Doors by Roddy Doyle
I thought I knew Roddy Doyle and his work, but really, I didn’t have a clue. The Commitments, The Van, and The Snapper – I had read and enjoyed them. Everyone in Ireland did in the late 1990s. The movie adaptations were fun. The warm hearted, foul mouthed family focused characters were the stock in…
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Roddy Doyle Giveaway!
If there’s one thing Roddy Doyle does brilliantly, it’s dialogue, so it’s no surprise that his Two Pints books have distilled his writing down to that bare minimum of speech. Two Pints and Two More Pints started life as extended Facebook posts on Doyle’s page and have now been published in two slight…
Ireland Month – it’s nearly here!
It’s hard to believe it, but March is nearly here and that can only mean one thing, it’s time for some craic! As of next Sunday, it will be Reading Ireland Month (or The Begorrathon, if you are so inclined!) and we will kick off a month long celebration of Irish books and culture. I’ve…
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