Two men sit at a bar, drinking Guinness and putting the world to rights. The setting, though, is not a Dublin pub - but Coventry's Belgrade Theatre, where Roddy Doyle's play Two Pints is part way ...

The Irish writer Roddy Doyle was riding a wave of fame for his novels The Commitments and ‘Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha’, when he first wrote the character of Paula Spencer. The 1994 TV drama she ...

Feistiness and a fighting Irish spirit transcend the barriers of time linking Irish singer and author Maria Doyle-Cuche with Irish woman Margaret Kelly (1910-2004) aka 'Miss Bluebell' of the Lido ...

Doyle’s stated intention of giving voice to a character type consciously sidelined by Irish society. It also furthers the author’s established interest in the multiculturalism of modern ...

For the writer, who also penned The Barrytown Trilogy ... There’s plenty of younger Irish writers Doyle is excited about – naming Michelle Gallen and Colin Barrett – while still appreciating ...

Irish author Roddy Doyle has been announced as the first Booker Prize winner to chair the judging panel. The author has written 13 novels but is best known for his books The Snapper, The Van ...

The event took place in the Alumni House and commenced at 7 p.m. with an introduction by UConn’s Irish literature concentration coordinator and professor of English, Mary Burke. Doyle currently serves ...

But in Doyle’s crisp, wry language ... The latest novel by the popular and acclaimed Irish writer is a covid tale about what happens when the world falls apart and after it comes back together ...

He became the fifth Irish author to win the Booker Prize, after Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright, the organizers of the competition said. The Northern Irish writer Anna ...