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Dublin: One City, One Book - “The Barrytown Trilogy” by Roddy Doyle

The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle Image: www.dublinonecityonebook.ie
NEWS / 17 April 2015

2015 is the 10th Year of the the Dublin: One City, One Book Festival. Throughout April there are events citywide celebrating Roddy Doyle's Barrytown Trilogy: "The Commitments", "The Snapper" and "The Van".

There are five copies of Roddy Doyle's "The Barrytown Trilogy" in the Library as featured in this year's Dublin: One City, One Book Festival. Transition Year students are reading these books in English class and writing book reviews on 1990's Dublin - a time dominated by Italia '90 and unemployment; a time where no hint of the future Celtic Tiger was on the horizon. Roddy Doyle's blunt writing was turned into a very successful film - "The Commitments".

For TY students it is like reading a Dublin in another age.

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