The Commitments

Roddy Doyle

1987 • 165 pages

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Average rating3.7

The Commitments (1987) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.[2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy, it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.

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[Barrytown Trilogy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL762601W)

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Series

3 primary books

#1 in The Barrytown Trilogy

The Barrytown Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1987 with contributions by Roddy Doyle.

Series

1 primary book

#1 in Jimmy Rabbitte

Jimmy Rabbitte is a 1-book series first released in 1987 with contributions by Roddy Doyle.

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KittySupporter

The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van are possibly the funniest and warmest books I know. I love Nick Hornby, but his work is shallow and artificial compared to Doyle's. Roddie Doyle thinks up people - Irish people - so warm, so real, so alive - so contradictory, so foolish that you have to like them. Also, they are very working class. Interesting.

Above all, his dialogues are incomparable. Beautiful and witty and again: realistic.

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