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November 2, 2017
Roddy Doyle: The Waterstones Interview
Roddy Doyle’s eleventh novel, Smile, is the kind of book that is difficult to talk about unless it’s with someone else who has read it; a powerful novel with an ending that forces you to look at the whole book anew. Waterstones got the chance to speak to him about the real-life event behind this book, his love of dialogue and his work to help the writers of tomorrow find their own voices. Smile is available now here.
The Irish Times Interview: Roddy Doyle: ���The work I���ve done? If I wasn���t me, I���d be impressed���
Roddy Doyle: ���The work I���ve done? If I wasn���t me, I���d be impressed���.
The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older.
You can read the full interview here.
The Irish Times Interview: Roddy Doyle: ‘The work I’ve done? If I wasn’t me, I’d be impressed’
Roddy Doyle: ‘The work I’ve done? If I wasn’t me, I’d be impressed’.
The Dubliner on the savagery of school, how being famous is easy in Ireland, and getting older.
You can read the full interview here.
September 1, 2017
Smile
‘This is a book that will make people think, you won’t easily forgot it.’
Interview in The Irish Times Magazine
Extract in The Irish Independent
Sunday Business Post – interview
The Snapper
Gate Studio Commission
The Snapper offers a wickedly funny account of the ups and downs of family life and pregnancy in Northside Dublin of the late 1980s. It is salty and sweet and the Gate Theatre sits right next door to the Rotunda Hospital where Sharon’s baby ‘the snapper’ is born…
The second instalment of the celebrated Barrytown Trilogy is a story that remains fresh, vivid, astute and relevant for today.
Previews: from Thurs 14th June, 2018
Opening Night: Wed 20th June, 2018
Matinees: Wed & Sat – 2.30pm
Shows: Mon to Sat – 7.30pm
Tickets: €27 – €40
See www.gatetheatre.ie for
Two Pints
“Who was he?”
“The king of England.”
“Wha’ happened the fuckin’ Queen?”
“Before her.”
“He was her da”
“I think so, yeah. Grandda maybe.”
“Anyway, they found him.”
Two men meet for a pint.
They talk about their Da’s, death, Nigella,
North Korea, the afterlife…
Pull up a stool and listen in as they chew
the fat and set the world to rights…
Starring: Liam Carney and Lorcan Cranitch
Written by: Roddy Doyle
Directed by: Caitríona McLaughlin
Design by: Kate Moylan
Produced by: Kelly Phelan
Tour 2018 – on sale soon. check Abbeytheatre.ie for details.
Smile
Just moved into an apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnolly’s pub for a pint, a slow one.One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seem’s to know Victor’s name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers. He prompts other memories too – of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on radio. But it’s the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control and eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.
Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: razor -sharp dialogue, the humour, the superb evocation of childhood – but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to re-evaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.
July 5, 2017
October 14, 2016
Rover and the Big Fat Baby
The BFB (Big Fat Baby) is missing!
Can Rover the wonder dog and his little nephew Messi (who is actually very tidy) track her down?
While Rover and Co. are hot on the trail of the BFB, via Granny Mack’s backpack, the post lady’s basket and a plane bound for Africa, it looks like the Gigglers are about to run out of poo . . .
And without an urgent delivery from Rover, how will they be able to give the Giggler Treatment to grumpy adults and help kids all over the country?
Rover returns in a brand-new adventure in the bestselling series..
May 21, 2015
Dead Man Talking 2014
Pat had been best friends with Joe Murphy since they were kids. But five years ago they had a fight. A big one, and they haven’t spoken since — till the day before Joe’s funeral.
What? On the day before his funeral Joe would be dead, wouldn’t he?
Yes, he would…
Dead Man Talking is a book in the Quick Reads series which sets out to show that books and reading can be for everyone. Each year they commission authors to write short books that are specifically designed to be easy to read. They are the same as mainstream books in every respect but are simply shorter and easier to tackle for adults who are less confident in their reading. Dead Man Talking was published in February.
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