IRISH author Roddy Doyle is to see his 'Gigglers' receive the Wallis and Gromit treatment in a new children's animation. The award-winning Dublin writer is adapting his own children's book, 'The ...

Doyle just gets better and better. After the touching hijinks of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and the poignantly powerful The Woman Who Walked into Walls, he has embarked on nothing less than a trilogy that ...

Doyle is best known for his first book, The Commitments, though his Booker Prize moment came in 1993, for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. As he notes in his introduction, Ireland has vastly changed since those ...

Roddy Doyle has written for stage and film, but he is best known for his 11 novels, including the Booker Prize-winning "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha." His latest book, "Smile," builds on many of his familiar ...

Roddy Doyle - already acclaimed for memorable portraits of Dublin such as "The Commitments" and "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" - turned Irish historical fiction on its ear in 1999 with his novel "A Star ...

Irish author Roddy Doyle will chair the 2025 Booker Prize judging panel. Doyle, who has written 13 novels, is the first ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The Booker Prize-winning author of “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha” sets his latest book in a Dublin restaurant, with two old friends ...

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Penguin, $15). From the first page, Doyle’s Booker Prize–winning 1993 novel took me back to growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 1960s. Doyle’s writing ...

Roddy Doyle is the author of 11 novels including The Commitments, which was adapted into a successful film and stage musical, The Snapper, and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, which won the Booker Prize. His ...