I've just read this #RoddyDoyle book. Great writing set in Covid lock down. I found the fractured storyline confusing and intriguing. Name changes seeming new characters, memories that don't match up. Is this about mental breakdown/hallucinations?
No it's 10 shortstories 😂 and I didn't realise till I'd finished.

"What did Evel Knievel want?"

"God sent him."

"On a fuckin' Suzuki?"

#RoddyDoyle

Roddy Doyle’s Two Pints is dialog of two guys sitting in a pub and talking daily bullshit. Each chapter is dialog only and brisk. Mostly funny and sometimes heartwarming.

Previous there were 3 volumes but now they’re combined along with a play and zoom episodes, which have yet been published before.

Some brilliant Irish literature that will have you calling everyone a cunt.

#IrishLiterature #humor #RoddyDoyle #reading @bookstodon #bookstodon #amreading

Jimmy was in the kitchen filling the kettle when he remembered something, something he'd read a while back. Joe Tex died in 1982.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0099590522/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_api_gl_i_HCRTP9P2V36KK9D9EGX9?linkCode=ml2&tag=carldpatte-21

#TheCommitments
#RoddyDoyle
#Books

Have you got Soul? If yes, The World’s Hardest Working Band is looking for you. Contact J. Rabbitte, 118, Chestnut Ave., Dublin 21. Rednecks and southsiders need not apply.

#TheCommitments
#RoddyDoyle

I feel it's about time for me to re-watch "The Commitments," a jukebox musical dedicated to American Soul music as interpreted by Dubliners. It's based on a book by Roddy Doyle, part of the Barrytown Trilogy of novels, all of which were made into movies. I enjoyed them all, but it's the Commitments I love the most, and have most often re-watched. It's fun and funny, and it's also a pretty good story. You can't say it has a happy ending, but I love it anyway, as it always improves my mood. Bonus- it features a young Glen Hansard, who you might know as the star of "Once," a movie about a Dublin busker.
#RoddyDoyle #TheCommitments #JukeboxMusical
#Dublin

Chatted about football, illness, writing and #RoyKeane alongside the great #RoddyDoyle on RTE Radio 1’s #SecondCaptains.

🎧: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/second-captains/programmes/2022/1231/1344316-second-captains-saturday-31-december-2022/

#RoddyDoyle and I are talking books, football, writing and #RoyKeane today on #SecondCaptains on RTÉ Radio 1 at 1pm. You can listen online here too. https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/second-captains/

⚽️ If you’d like to hear me talk about my lifelong love of #football, and explain why I have a 36-piece jigsaw of me and #RoyKeane, tune in to #SecondCaptains on New Years Eve, alongside #RoddyDoyle on #RTERadio1 at 1pm and online. Am not at liberty to say what happened during the controversial head to head round, but we did some post-show analysis over a drink. ⚽️

Jimmy Rabbitte: "The Irish are the blacks of Europe. And Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the blacks of Dublin. So say it once and say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud."
(The Commitments, Alan Parker, 1991, naar het boek van Roddy Doyle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfHC5eY5CI
Wat een film!
#TheCommitments #Dublin #soul #OtisRedding #RoddyDoyle #Ireland

A star called Henry #roddydoyle this entire book is dark, humorous poetry. Also, really enjoying Our Missing Hearts #celesteng listening on #audiable narrated by #lucyliu - I say ‘enjoying’ as much as it's beautifully written, it's all just so terrifyingly close to a possible reality. Christmas reading at it's darkest.

“She was getting what she called ‘nervous’ and she couldn't understand it, because she had been looking forward to Christmas.” Listen to Roddy Doyle reading Maeve Brennan’s Dublin-set story “Christmas Eve”, first published in the New Yorker in December 1972 https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/roddy-doyle-reads-maeve-brennan #MaeveBrennan #RoddyDoyle #Dublin #Christmas #NewYorker #podcast

Sunday listening: #RoddyDoyle (whose mother was Maeve’s cousin) reads and discusses Brennan’s story Christmas Eve on the #TheNewYorker #Fiction podcast.

🎧: https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction/roddy-doyle-reads-maeve-brennan

Listen back to this week’s #Backlisted on Brennan’s life and work in the link above.

#MaeveBrennan #IrishWriting #IrishWriters @backlistedpod

What are 5 -7 of your favourite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own. Etc. Some of mine:

#NeilGaiman
#SteveToltz
#WilliamDarlrymple
#AgathaChristie
#HilaryMantel
#TerryPratchett
#LouisdeBernieres
#RoddyDoyle

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