![]() ![]() In 1994 he wrote a controversial mini-series for television called Family that featured a working-class Dublin family with an abusive father. It was only after Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, his fourth novel, for which he became the first Irish man or woman to win the Booker prize, that he began to be taken seriously at home. His straightforward prose, his use of four-letter words and his sharp ear for comedy made his Irish contemporaries believe that he was playing to the crowd, especially an American crowd open to stories featuring stereotypical, good-hearted, bumbling, working-class Irish characters. ![]() His first novel, The Commitments, which was later made into a successful film, was initially self-published as he couldn’t find a publisher in Ireland. It took a long time for Roddy Doyle to be accepted in his own country as a ‘serious’ writer. The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle ![]()
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