1. Roderick Doyle was born on 8 May 1958 and is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter.
22 Facts About Roddy Doyle
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Roddy Doyle is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories.
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Roddy Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect.
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Roddy Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
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Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in Kilbarrack, in a middle-class family.
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Roddy Doyle's mother, Ita was a first cousin of the short story writer Maeve Brennan.
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Roddy Doyle is the granddaughter of former Irish President Erskine Childers.
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Roddy Doyle attended University College Dublin, where he studied English and geography, and graduated with a BA in 1979.
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Roddy Doyle went on to complete a Higher Diploma in Education in 1980.
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Roddy Doyle spent several years as an English and geography teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1993.
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Roddy Doyle's writing is marked by heavy use of dialogue between characters, with little description or exposition.
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Roddy Doyle's work is largely set in Ireland, with a focus on the lives of working-class Dubliners.
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Roddy Doyle is determined to have the child but refuses to reveal the father's identity to her family.
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In 1993, Roddy Doyle published Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, which later won the 1993 Booker Prize, and which showed the world as described, understood and misunderstood by a ten-year-old Dubliner living in 1968.
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Roddy Doyle goes to Chicago where he becomes a business partner with Louis Armstrong.
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Roddy Doyle has written many novels for children, including the "Rover Adventures" series, which includes The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, and The Meanwhile Adventures.
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Roddy Doyle is a prolific dramatist, writing four plays and two screenplays.
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Roddy Doyle's plays with the Passion Machine Theatre Company include Brownbread and War, directed by Paul Mercier with set and costume design by Anne Gately.
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Roddy Doyle authored When Brendan Met Trudy, which is a romance about a timid schoolteacher and a free-spirited thief.
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Roddy Doyle has written many short stories, several of which have been published in The New Yorker; they have been compiled in two collections.
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Rory and Ita is a work of non-fiction about Roddy Doyle's parents, based on interviews with them.
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In 2018 the Gate Theatre commissioned Roddy Doyle to write a stage adaptation of The Snapper.