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The Northern Light (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Roddy Doyle’s much anticipated creative writing centre. Fighting Words, has gone online prior to its opening in Dublin in January. Taking its inspiration from David Eggers’ 826 Valencia, the centre pairs volunteer professional writers with local children. It doesn’t mention the fact explicitly, but the subtext here is that one-on-one mentoring can help revive a deprived [...]
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Flaming Nora (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
Just finished reading my first Roddy Doyle book, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors . It wasn't the most comfortable of subjects to read about but it's a book I can highly recommend, all the same.
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Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 2009 each month I’m going to focus on a different author: January for Julia Alvarez, February for Roddy Doyle, March for Willa Cather, April for Haruki Murakami, May for Toni Morrison, June for Albert Camus, July for Joyce Carol Oates, August for F. Scott Fitzgerald, September for Banana Yoshimoto, October for Dave Eggers, November for Virginia Woolf, and December for Kurt Vonnegut....
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ExPad.ie (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
For the real reason why a black man moving house to Pennsylvania Avenue is big news for Ireland, don’t go looking in Moneygall, take peek into Roddy Doyle’s back catalogue. Say it once, say it loud. I’m black and I’m proud. The look on Glen Hansard’s face when he’s told he’s a minstrel is beautiful. Next [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT by far, since arriving in Ireland in 1996, is coming up with the idea for the new version of , persuading Irish writer Roddy Doyle to co-write it with me, getting my company Arambe Productions to commission its writing with an Arts Council grant and enabling the Abbey Theatre to produce its premiere, precisely 100 years after the production of the original masterpiece...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
From the time when she read Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors , Deepa Mehta had been thinking about the universality of domestic abuse and the way that in every culture, families will find a way to hush it up.
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Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... in the blogosphere) Jezebel on Elizabeth Edwards Benny's World on Elizabeth Edwards Irish Voice on Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright Paper Magazine on the "Next Generation in Fashion" panel Stilettos on Cobblestone on the "Next Generation in Fashion" panel Emdashes friend Newyorkette at the Festival Joe Trippi on the political strategy panel that he was on Ta-Nehisi Coates on the political...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
... as the official kickoff to IFOA, features an onstage conversation between popular Irish writer Roddy Doyle and Toronto actor and filmmaker Don McKellar at the Fleck Dance Theatre. The event also marks the 25th anniversary of PEN Canada, which lobbies on behalf of imprisoned and persecuted writers around the world."Zargana is always being scooped up for things that he writes or says,"...
