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Personal life. Doyle was born in Dublin and grew up in Kilbarrack, in a middle-class family. [ 2] . His mother, Ita (née Bolger) was a first cousin of the short story writer Maeve Brennan. [ 3] In addition to teaching, Doyle, along with Seán Love, [ 4] established a creative writing centre, "Fighting Words", which opened in Dublin in January 2009.
Roddy Doyle è uno scrittore e sceneggiatore irlandese. Molti dei suoi libri sono diventati film di successo, ad esempio, The Commitments, diretto da Alan Parker o The Snapper, di Stephen Frears. È cresciuto a Kilbarrack, Dublino. Si è laureato in lettere all'University College Dublin e prima di diventare scrittore a tempo pieno, nel 1993, ha ...
Roddy Doyle (born May 8, 1958, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish author known for his unvarnished depiction of the working class in Ireland, particularly in his home city of Dublin.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
16 mar 2020 · Roddy Doyle is one of Ireland's best-loved writers, the success of his Barrytown Trilogy and the film adaptation of The Commitments brought Irishness to the global stage in an unprecedented...
26 ott 2020 · In Roddy Doyle’s new novel two teenage friends, Davy and Joe, stumble across a pub in their native Dublin they’ve never noticed before. Inside the bar is clean, the landlord treats them like grown men and the clientele is smarter and sexier than anywhere they’ve ever drank.
Although Doyle remains protective of many details of his personal and family life, he has admitted in interviews that since his retirement from teaching in 1993, he generally devotes each...
26 ago 2017 · Roddy Doyle in Temple Bar in 1994: a northside Dubliner, he has lived in Clontarf for nearly 30 years, a short hop from where he was reared. His life is normal, disciplined, family-oriented.
