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=Roddy Doyle = Roddy Doyle is a well-known Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He was born in Dublin in 1958, and on a University Colley there, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Doyle didn’t start being an author full time before 1993. He actually spent 14 years as a Geography and English teacher first.

It is not easy to try to characterize Roddy Doyle’s personal life. He is a man full of secrets, and he tries the best he can to keep his personal life hidden from the media. Near friends of Doyle describes him to be a very modest man, and that he don’t really enjoy the celebrity status that much. However, we know that Doyle is a family man. He is actually married to a woman called Belinda, and they have to sons together.

Roddy Doyle’s has written many books, and the most of them can be characterized as bully novels that are rooted in working-class experiences. Another thing that Doyle uses constantly in his books is the use of humor, slang, vulgarism etc. Since the books he writes is almost entirely written in dialogues, he uses these agents a lot. Because of his use of swearing and vulgarism the critics haven’t always been positive. Not everyone in his home country Ireland like the way Doyle has described the Irish people. Doyle himself has pronounced” I've been criticized for the bad language in my books and that I've given a bad image of the country”. He thinks this is just rubbish, and that his job is to describe things as they really are, and not just the good images.

Like I mentioned, there’s no doubt that Doyle has had a lot of success. His first novel The Commitments came in 1987, and was the first of the three books in The Barrytown Trilogy. In the years after his first publication Doyle wrote several novels and short stories, but also theatre and screenplays. Here is a short summary of Doyle’s bibliography:

[|Picture link] As you can he has been a really productive author. Many of these novels have also been made into movies, so it’s possible to both read Doyles’ books and watch them in movies.
 * **Novels:**
 * The Barrytown trilogy
 * The Commitments (1987)
 * The Snapper (1990)
 * The Van (1991)
 * Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993)
 * The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996)
 * **Short stories:**
 * “The slave”
 * “Home to Harlem”

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