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The Commitments is a 1991 musical comedy-drama film based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle. It was directed by Alan Parker from a screenplay written by Doyle, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Set in the Northside of Dublin, the film tells the story of Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins), a young music fanatic who assembles a group of working-class youths to form a soul band named "The Commitments". Starring Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Félim Gormley, Glen Hansard, Dick Massey, Johnny Murphy, Andrew Strong, Kenneth McCluskey

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Dead Man Talking by Roddy Doyle (Quick Reads)

Rating: ❤️❤❤❤❤

[doyouknowthismusical]

From what I understood, there is both a stage musical and a movie musical called The Commitments. They are based on the same novel but use different songs. This poll is for the stage musical.

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Quotable – Roddy Doyle

Read more about the author here

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AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.'

'If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.'

'I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.'

'When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.'

'When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself - am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: 'I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do.'

Author Extraordinaire Roddy Doyle

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Time for a new read. Well, re-read. It's been a couple of years since I read this one through so it's time to pick it up again. God bless these three hilariously addictive stories.

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watching tv ('the van')

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Book Review: Love by Roddy Doyle

Author: Roddy Doyle Title: Love Narrator: Morgan C. Jones Publication Info: Penguin Audio (2020)  Summary/Review: Two old friends meet in a Dublin pub.  Davy, the narrator, has long ago emigrated to England, only returning to visit his ailing father.  Joe does most of the talking, telling a story of a woman named Jessica who they were both attracted to four decades earlier when they were young…

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Booker Prize geht an Paul Lynch

Der irische Schriftsteller gewinnt mit seinem Roman »A Prophet Song« den wichtigsten britischen Buchpreis. Paul Lynch folgt auf Shehan Karunatilaka, dessen Roman »Die sieben Monde des Maali Almeida« morgen in der deutschen Übersetzung erscheint. Continue reading Untitled

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"Popmuziek uit Vittula" van Mikael Niemi

Door omstandigheden is het al een hele tijd geleden dat ik mijn “willekeurige woordenzoeker” nog eens heb moeten gebruiken. Vandaag is het dan eindelijk zo ver en het is meteen prijs: “Popmuziek uit Vittula” van Mikael Niemi. Ik herinner me nog de opwinding toen ik me het boek aanschafte. “Het Zweedse antwoord op The Commitments” stond er als teaser op de kaft. “The Commitments”! Het boek…

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If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

Roddy Doyle

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Una Stella Di Nome Henry di Roddy Doyle - Recensione

Una Stella Di Nome Henry. Una stella che illumina il cielo d’Irlanda. Dublino di inizio ‘900 è la rappresentazione della miseria. Fame, povertà, disgrazie. Non manca nulla alla città di James Joyce, Samuel Beckett e Oscar Wilde. Le famiglie vivono di stenti e i bambini scorrazzano allegramente in strada schivando malattie mortali e scappando dalla violenza gratuita dei padri. In questo…

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I put this song on - and re-listen to Roddy Doyle's introduction The Dispossessed, now that I've finally finished it.

The moon landing in 1969 & Shevek from the Moon in 1974.

We watched The Dish last weekend.

And I'm sure something else will appear on the horizon soon, that I will connected this as well. And so on. I am obsessed with the way the stars of art make out lives into constellations. I feel like I am always (we are always?) trying to observe some recognisable pattern in the barrage of light and dark.

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Why does this edition of The Dispossessed have an introduction from some guy talking about he generally finds sci fi silly and is too preoccupied with Manly War Novels to read women authors but Le Guin is One Of The Good Ones bro shut the FUCK up fr

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The Commitments (1991)