Search results for Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’

The Booker prize-winning novelist and screenwriter shares the tune he’d want played at his funeral and why he’d have a couple of pints with Charles Dickens but not threeYou’ve writ...

Martin Doyle: ‘Brian Moore really captured my imagination as a young man, writing about my part of the world’

My Life in Books

John Boyne: ‘No one writes to win prizes, but we all need a clap on the back sometimes’

In the spring of 2007, I bought my first tuxedo. My novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, had been shortlisted for three prizes at the second annual Irish Book Awards, which was h...

Doyle nabs winner as Drogheda United get the better of Sligo Rovers

Mark Doyle’s goal in the 14th minute proved to be the difference.

Joseph Birchall’s Darcy Doyle returns with twisty mystery as missing child case turns deadly

Fiction

THE LOWLIFE

A lifelong East Ender who fought in gangs as a boy and whose mother was killed when a German bomb dropped on their house, 45-year-old Harryboy Boas resides in a small room in a scr...

Declan Gorman to bring audiences back to the ‘80s in new one-man show

ARDAL O’HANLON turns his hand to cosy crime fiction with an Irish community setting

Speaking as an avid Father Ted fan, anyone similarly inclined won’t be disappointed with the comedic elements in Ardal O’Hanlon’s latest novel. The post ARDAL O’HANLON turns his ha...

Irish journalist RORY CARROLL extracts the roots of the IRA in a thrilling new biography

Combining thriller-writer penmanship with the analytical eye required to portray Roger Casement’s life, Rory Carroll more than does his subject justice. The post Irish journalist R...

Mark Rodgers: 'We're very comfortable in our own group'

Mark Rodgers has assumed full-time free-taking duties since last year, scoring 1-50 across the league.

SÉAMAS O’REILLY takes a heavily skewed look at modern Ireland in his debut novel

Set in post-Troubles Derry, on the faultline of a divided Ireland, Séamas O’Reilly's Prestige Drama is torn between dwelling in the past and moving on. The post SÉAMAS O’REILLY ta...

Ardal O’Hanlon: ‘Even though I didn’t always agree with Dad’s politics, I always admired his conviction and his attempts...

Ardal O’Hanlon made his first attempt at writing a book when he was still a teenager. “I actually tried to write a crime novel when I was about 18,” the now 60-year-old comedian an...

'I always knew how special it was': The Dubliner highlighting the communities in the flats

Richie Power has launched a series entitled ‘Chats in the Flats’ that aims to showcase the different stories, memories, and talents of working class Dubliners.

Kevin Doyle: Bertie Ahern rides out racism row, but storm serves up subplot to Fianna Fáil leadership race

“Migration to Ireland cannot continue at its current rate if the country is to integrate successfully the thousands of newcomers eager for a slice of its growing wealth.” —Taoiseac...

John Broderick’s The Pilgrimage – an overlooked portrait of small-town Ireland – is back in the spotlight

Fiction

The Ginger Man: Seventy years since JP Donleavy's book was banned in Ireland 

The notoriety of the Irish-American author's Dublin-set tale helped ensure it was much sought after, despite the best efforts of Ireland's draconian censorship regime 

Gabh ar aistear álainn le hEoin Warner go Conamara Fiáin...

‘It’s a good job I played minor hurling’ — Conn McDunphy survives final-day ‘dirty tricks’ to win Rás on home roads

McDaid's Folk Club

PHOTO: McDaid's Folk Club in Midleton, Cork © FMF 2003....

‘They view our children as never being voters, so why look out for them?’ – a father’s fight for more special needs scho...

Dad-of-two Robbie McMahon smiles remembering a time when he was out in Blanchardstown Centre with his son, Riley, and children from his primary school came rushing up to say hello.

'They are football mad in this county' – how Roscommon make it work against the odds

Despite a small population, no large schools competing among the elite and without a training ground, Roscommon are an example to all.

‘You see the mums and dads on the sidelines screaming and shouting, I’d be thinking, I wish she was here’

The much-travelled League of Ireland footballer Mark Rutherford hasn’t had the time to sit down and put together his life story in book format, never mind come up with a title.