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{{Short description|Irish author and screenwriter (born 1958)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name             = Roddy Doyle
| image            = doyleroddy33.jpg
| image_size       = 200px
| caption          = Doyle in {{circa| 2006}}
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1958|5|8}}
| birth_place      = [[Dublin]], Ireland
| occupation       = Novelist, dramatist, short story writer, screenwriter, teacher
| notableworks     = [[The Barrytown Trilogy]], ''[[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]]'', ''[[The Woman Who Walked into Doors]]'', ''[[A Star Called Henry]]''
| alma_mater       = [[University College Dublin]]
| subject          = Working-class Dublin
| children         = 3
| spouse           = {{married|Belinda Moller|1989}}
| birth_name       = Roderick Doyle
}}

'''Roderick Doyle''' (born 8 May 1958)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958 |url=https://prnt.sc/ZJNYF58oFYkp |access-date=9 December 2023}}</ref> is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with ''[[The Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]'' in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class [[Dublin]], and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and [[Irish English]] dialect. Doyle was awarded the [[Booker Prize]] in 1993 for his novel ''[[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]]''.

==Personal life==
Doyle was born in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in [[Kilbarrack]], in a middle-class family.<ref name=Sbrockey>{{cite journal|author=Sbrockey, Karen |title=Something of a hero: An interview with Roddy Doyle|journal= Literary Review|date=Summer 1999 | volume=42 |issue=4|pages= 537–552}}</ref> His mother, Ita (née Bolger) was a first cousin of the short story writer [[Maeve Brennan]].<ref>Angela Bourke, ''Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker'', 2004, Counterpoint Books, New York.</ref> 

In addition to teaching, Doyle, along with Seán Love,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fightingwords.ie/the-work|title=The Work - Fighting Words Dublin}}</ref> established a creative writing centre, "Fighting Words", which opened in Dublin in January 2009. It was inspired by a visit to his friend [[Dave Eggers]]' [[826 Valencia]] project in [[San Francisco]], California.<ref>[http://www.fightingwords.ie/ Fighting Words] web site</ref> Doyle has also engaged in local causes, including signing a petition supporting journalist [[Suzanne Breen]], who faced gaol for refusing to divulge her sources in court,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sweney |first=Mark |date=2009-06-08 |title=John Pilger and Roddy Doyle back journalist over Real IRA interviews |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/08/john-pilger-real-ira |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> and joining a protest against an attempt by [[Dublin City Council]] to construct 9&nbsp;ft-high barriers which would interfere with one of his favourite views.<ref>O'Regan, Mark. [http://www.independent.ie/national-news/roddy-joins-chorus-of-anger-over-flood-barrier-2907856.html Roddy joins chorus of anger over flood barrier]. ''Irish Independent''. 17 October 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Nihill|first= Cian|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1017/1224305920199.html |title=Over 3,000 attend flood defence plan protest at Clontarf|newspaper=The Irish Times|date= 17 October 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.thejournal.ie/clontarf-residents-protest-over-flood-wall-plans-255484-Oct2011/ "Clontarf residents protest over flood wall plans"]. ''[[TheJournal.ie]]''. 16 October 2011.</ref><ref>Murphy, Cormac. [http://www.herald.ie/news/5000-turn-out-with-roddy-doyle-to-fight-9ft-flood-wall-2908034.html 5,000 turn out with Roddy Doyle to fight 9ft flood wall]. ''Evening Herald''. 17 October 2011.</ref>

In 1989, Doyle married Belinda Moller.<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 January 1989 |title=Notice of Marriage |pages=32 |work=[[Irish Press]] |url=https://prnt.sc/1WsJPinTEKLi |access-date=9 December 2023 |via=[[Irish Newspaper Archives]]}}</ref> She is the granddaughter of former Irish President [[Erskine Hamilton Childers|Erskine Childers]].<ref name="ChildersRE_Obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/eldest-daughter-of-erskine-childers-1.1733988|title=Eldest daughter of Erskine Childers|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=22 March 2014}}</ref> The couple have three children; Rory, Jack and Kate.

Doyle is an atheist.<ref>Chilton, Martin. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110923014328/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bath-childrens-literature/8782207/Roddy-Doyle-interview.html "Roddy Doyle interview"]. ''The Daily Telegraph''. 22 September 2011. The 53-year-old Dubliner, who will be the headline performer at the start of the 10-day Telegraph Bath Festival of Children's Literature, said: "I'm an atheist so I suppose that was part of the challenge of writing about a ghost. Strictly speaking, I don't believe in anything.</ref>

== Education ==
Doyle attended [[University College Dublin]], where he studied English and geography, and graduated with a BA in 1979.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Blackburn |first1=Anna |last2=Feb 18 2021 |first2=Natalia Duran {{!}} |title=OTwo Interviews: Roddy Doyle |url=https://universityobserver.ie/otwo-interviews-roddy-doyle-1/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=University Observer |language=en-ie}}</ref> He went on to complete a Higher Diploma in Education (HDipEd) in 1980. He spent several years as an English and geography teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1993.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Times & The Sunday Times |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article5360158.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615173001/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article5360158.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref> 

==Work==
Doyle's writing is marked by heavy use of dialogue between characters, with little description or exposition.<ref>"Our experience of Barrytown and the people that live there is constructed through the interplay of language, as Doyle's texts consist primarily of dialogue between various characters with a minimum of narrative exposition." {{cite journal|title=Dialect(ic) Nationalism?: The fiction of James Kelman and Roddy Doyle |author=Matt McGuire|journal=Scottish Studies Review| date=Spring 2006 |volume=7 |issue =1|pages=80–94}}</ref> His work is largely set in Ireland, with a focus on the lives of working-class Dubliners. Themes range from domestic and personal concerns to larger questions of Irish history. His personal notes and workbooks reside at the [[National Library of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Telford |first=Lyndsey |date=21 December 2011 |title=Seamus Heaney declutters home and donates personal notes to National Library |work=Irish Independent |publisher=Independent News & Media |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/arts/seamus-heaney-declutters-home-and-donates-personal-notes-to-national-library-2970392.html |access-date=21 December 2011}}</ref>

===Novels for adults===

Doyle's first three novels, ''[[The Commitments (novel)|The Commitments]]'' (1987), ''[[The Snapper (novel)|The Snapper]]'' (1990) and ''[[The Van (novel)|The Van]]'' (1991) comprise [[The Barrytown Trilogy]], a trilogy centred on the Rabbitte family. All three novels were made into successful films.

''The Commitments'' is about a group of Dublin teenagers, led by Jimmy Rabbitte Jr., who form a soul band in the tradition of [[Wilson Pickett]]. The novel was made into a [[The Commitments (film)|film]] in 1991. ''[[The Snapper (novel)|The Snapper]]'', made into a [[The Snapper (film)|film]] in 1993, focuses on Jimmy's sister, Sharon, who becomes pregnant. She is determined to have the child but refuses to reveal the father's identity to her family. In ''[[The Van (novel)|The Van]]'', which was shortlisted for the 1991 [[Booker Prize]] and made into a [[The Van (1996 film)|film]] in 1996, Jimmy Sr. is laid off, as is his friend Bimbo; the two buy a used [[fish and chips]] van and they go into business for themselves.

In 1993, Doyle published ''[[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]]'', which later won the 1993 [[Booker Prize]], and which showed the world as described, understood and misunderstood by a ten-year-old Dubliner living in 1968.

Doyle's next novel dealt with darker themes. ''[[The Woman Who Walked into Doors]]'', published in 1996, is the story of a battered wife, Paula Spencer, who was introduced in his 1994 television series ''[[Family (1994 TV series)|Family]]'', and is narrated by her. Despite her husband's increasingly violent behaviour, Paula defends him, using the classic excuse "I walked into a door" to explain her bruises. Ten years later, the protagonist returned in ''[[Paula Spencer (novel)|Paula Spencer]]'', published in 2006.

Doyle's most recent trilogy of adult novels is ''[[The Last Roundup (novel)|The Last Roundup]]'' series, which follows the adventures of protagonist Henry Smart through several decades. ''[[A Star Called Henry]]'' (published 1999) is the first book in the series, and tells the story of Henry Smart, an IRA volunteer and 1916 Easter Rebellion fighter, from his birth in Dublin to his adulthood when he becomes a father. ''[[Oh, Play That Thing!]]'' (2004) continues Henry's story in 1924 America, beginning on the Lower East Side of [[Manhattan]], where he catches the attention of local mobsters by hiring kids to carry his sandwich boards. He also goes to Chicago where he becomes a business partner with [[Louis Armstrong]]. The title is taken from a phrase that is shouted in one of Armstrong's songs, "Dippermouth Blues".{{citation needed|date=January 2013}} In the final novel in the trilogy, ''[[The Dead Republic]]'' (published 2010), Henry collaborates on writing the script for a Hollywood film. He returns to Ireland and is offered work as the caretaker in a school when circumstances lead to him re-establishing his link with [[Irish Republican Army|the IRA]].

Doyle frequently posts short comic dialogues on his [[Facebook]] page which are implied to be between two older men in a pub, often relating to current events in Ireland (such as the [[2015 Irish constitutional referendums|2015 marriage referendum]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Martin |last=Doyle|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/roddy-doyle-adds-his-two-pints-worth-to-marriage-equality-yes-vote-campaign-1.2197104 |title=Roddy Doyle adds his Two Pints worth to marriage equality Yes vote campaign|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=1 May 2015}}</ref>) and further afield. These developed into the novella ''Two Pints'' (2012). Other recent works are ''[[The Guts (novel)|The Guts]]'' (2013), which continues the story of the Rabbitte family from the Barrytown Trilogy, focusing on a 48-year-old Jimmy Rabbite and his diagnosis of [[bowel cancer]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Theo|last=Tait|title=Still singing the old songs|newspaper=The Guardian Review|location=London|date=3 August 2013|page=5}}</ref> and ''Two More Pints'' (2014).

===Novels for children===

Doyle has also written many novels for children, including the "Rover Adventures" series,<ref>Roddy Doyle. (2012). In Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from  http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1000114801&v=2.1&u=ucdavis&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w</ref> which includes ''The Giggler Treatment'' (2000), ''Rover Saves Christmas'' (2001), and ''The Meanwhile Adventures'' (2004).

Other children's books include ''Wilderness'' (2007), ''Her Mother's Face'' (2008), and ''A Greyhound of a Girl'' (2011).

===Plays, screenplays, short stories and non-fiction===

Doyle is also a prolific dramatist, writing four plays and two screenplays. His plays with the Passion Machine Theatre Company include ''Brownbread'' (1987) and ''War'' (1989), directed by [[Paul Mercier (film director and playwright)|Paul Mercier]] with set and costume design by Anne Gately. Later plays include ''The Woman Who Walked into Doors'' (2003); and a rewrite of ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'' (2007) with Bisi Adigun. This latter play was the subject of litigation about copyright which ended with the [[Abbey Theatre]] agreeing to pay Adigun €600,000.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ronan |last=McGreevy|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/abbey-to-pay-600-000-in-dispute-over-play-copyright-1.1255531 |title=Abbey 'to pay €600,000' in dispute over play copyright|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=31 January 2013}}</ref>

Screenplays include the television screenplay for ''[[Family (1994 TV series)|Family]]'' (1994), which was a [[BBC]]/[[RTÉ]] [[Serial (literature)|serial]] and the forerunner of the 1996 novel ''The Woman Who Walked into Doors''. Doyle also authored ''[[When Brendan Met Trudy]]'' (2000), which is a romance about a timid schoolteacher (Brendan) and a free-spirited thief (Trudy).

Doyle has written many short stories, several of which have been published in ''[[The New Yorker]]''; they have also been compiled in two collections. ''[[The Deportees and Other Stories]]'' was published in 2007, while the collection ''Bullfighting'' was published in 2011. Doyle's story "New Boy" was [[New Boy (film)|adapted]] into a 2008 [[Academy Award]]-nominated short film directed by [[Steph Green]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095191/|title=New Boy|date=27 February 2009|via=IMDb}}</ref>

''Rory and Ita'' (2002) is a work of non-fiction about Doyle's parents, based on interviews with them.<ref name=Sbrockey/>

''[[The Commitments (musical)|The Commitments]]'' was adapted by Doyle for a musical which began in the West End in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last=Brown|first=Mark|title=The Commitments West End|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/apr/23/the-commitments-west-end-musical|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=23 April 2013}}</ref>

''Two Pints'' (2017) was produced by the Abbey Theatre initially in pubs and later in the theatre itself.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-08-30|title=Two Pints - bringing Roddy Doyle's play on a pub crawl|url=https://www.rte.ie/culture/2018/0830/988481-two-pints-bringing-roddy-doyles-play-on-a-pub-crawl/|publisher=RTÉ |language=en}}</ref>

In 2018 the Gate Theatre commissioned Doyle to write a stage adaptation of ''The Snapper''. The show was directed by Róisín McBrinn and was revived in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gatetheatre.ie/production/the-snapper-2019/|title=The Snapper|website=Gate Theatre Dublin|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-02}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
* 1991 [[Booker Prize]] shortlist for ''[[The Van (novel)|The Van]]''
* 1991 [[BAFTA Award]] (Best Adapted Screenplay) for ''[[The Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]''
* 1993 [[Booker Prize]] for ''[[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]]''
* 2003 [[Royal Society of Literature]] Fellow<ref>[https://rsliterature.org/fellow/roddy-doyle-3/ Roddy Doyle] The Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved: 2023-05-18.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rslit.org/people |title=Royal Society of Literature: People |access-date=22 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002061545/http://www.rslit.org/people |archive-date= 2 October 2012}}</ref>
* 2009 [[Irish PEN Award]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/roddy-doyle|title=Roddy Doyle - Literature|website=literature.britishcouncil.org|access-date=2020-01-15}}</ref>
* 2011 [http://www.prixlitterairedesjeuneseuropeens.eu/index.php/editions/2011/13-coup-de-coeur French Literary Award] ("Prix Littéraire des Jeunes Européens") for ''The Snapper''
* 2013 [[Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards]] (Novel of the Year) for ''[[The Guts (novel)|The Guts]]''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/roddy-doyle-s-the-guts-named-novel-of-the-year-1.1608597 |title=Roddy Doyle's 'The Guts' named novel of the year|first=Laurence|last=Mackin|newspaper=The Irish Times|date= 2013-11-27}}</ref>
* 2015 Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from University of Dundee<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/news/2015/university-to-honour-leading-figures.php|title=University To Honour Leading Figures : News|first=University of|last=Dundee}}</ref>
* 2021 Dalkey Literary Awards, Shortlist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zurich.ie/dalkey-literary-awards/2021/novel-of-the-year/shortlist/ |title=Novel Of the Year Award Shortlist 2021 |publisher=Dalkey Literary Awards}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
In the television series ''[[Father Ted]]'', the character [[List of Father Ted characters#Father Dougal Maguire|Father Dougal McGuire]]'s unusual sudden use of (mild) profanities (such as saying "I wouldn't know, Ted, you big bollocks!") is blamed on his having "been reading those Roddy Doyle books again".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tv-quotes.com/shows/father-ted/quote_20669.html|title=TV Quotes Database |access-date=21 October 2020}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
{{Incomplete list|date=August 2018}}

===Novels===
* ''[[Smile (2017 Roddy Doyle Novel)|Smile]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Charlie Savage (novel)|Charlie Savage]]'' (2019)
* ''[[Love (Doyle novel)|Love]]'' (2020)

;The Barrytown Pentalogy
* ''[[The Commitments (novel)|The Commitments]]'' (1987, [[The Commitments (film)|1991 film]])
* ''[[The Snapper (novel)|The Snapper]]'' (1990, [[The Snapper (film)|1993 film]])
* ''[[The Van (novel)|The Van]]'' (1991) ; [[The Van (1996 film)|1996 film]])
* ''[[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]]'' (1993)
* ''[[The Guts (novel)|The Guts]]'' (2013)
;Paula Spencer novels
* ''[[The Woman Who Walked into Doors]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Paula Spencer (novel)|Paula Spencer]]'' (2006)
* ''[[The Women Behind The Door]]'' (2024)
;[[The Last Roundup (novel)|The Last Roundup]]
* ''[[A Star Called Henry]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Oh, Play That Thing!]]'' (2004)
* ''[[The Dead Republic]]'' (2010)

=== Short fiction ===
;Collections
*''[[The Deportees and Other Stories]]'', September 2007.
*''Bullfighting'', April 2011.
*''Life Without Children: Stories'' (2021)
;Stories<ref>Short stories unless otherwise noted.</ref>
{|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%'
|-
!width=25%|Title
!|Year
!|First published
!|Reprinted/collected
!|Notes
|-
|"Recuperation"
|2003
|{{cite magazine |author=Doyle, Roddy |date=December 15, 2003 |title=Recuperation |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/12/15/recuperation <!--|access-date=2022-07-22-->}}
|
|
|-
|"Vincent"
|2007
|{{cite book |title=[[Click (novel)|Click]] |location=New York |publisher=Arthur A. Levine Books |date=2007 <!--isbn=9780439411387--> |chapter=Vincent}}
| 
|
|-
|"Ash"
|2010
|{{cite magazine |author=Doyle, Roddy |date=May 24, 2010 |title=Ash |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=86 |issue=14 |pages=64–67 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/05/24/ash <!--|access-date=2022-07-22-->}}
|
|
|-
|"Box sets"
|2014
|{{cite magazine |author=Doyle, Roddy |date=14 April 2014 |title=Box sets |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=90 |issue=8 |pages=62–66 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/14/box-sets <!--access-date=2018-08-06-->}}
| 
|
|-
|"The Curfew"
|2019
|{{cite magazine |author=Doyle, Roddy
|date=2 December 2019 |title=The Curfew
|magazine=The New Yorker |volume=95
|issue=38 |pages=54–58
|url= https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/02/the-curfew <!--access-date=2024-09-22-->}}
|}
<!--Move these into the table above-->
* "The Slave" (2000)<ref>Middle-aged man reads ''[[Cold Mountain (novel)|Cold Mountain]]'' and obsesses over a dead rat.</ref>
* "Teaching" (2007)<ref>Reflections of a spent, alcoholic teacher. ''[[The New Yorker]],'' 2 April 2007. [https://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/04/02/070402fi_fiction_doyle Teaching online text] (2 April 2007)</ref>
* "The Dog" (2007)<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=New Yorker|date=5 November 2007|url=https://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/11/05/071105fi_fiction_doyle |title=The Dog}} (A man ponders the gradual erosion of his marriage.)</ref>
* "Bullfighting" (2008)<ref>"Bullfighting", ''The New Yorker'', 28 April 2008. "[https://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/04/28/080428fi_fiction_doyle Bullfighting online text]"< (Four middle-aged friends from Ireland take a week's vacation in Spain and reflect on life.)</ref>
* "The Child" (2004)<ref>"The Child", ''McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories,'' 2004. (An insomniac is constantly plagued by intrusive visions of a boy.)</ref>
* "Sleep" (2008).<ref>A man admires his wife while she is sleeping, reflecting also on his life with her. ''The New Yorker'', 20 October 2008, ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', 15 February 2009."[https://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/10/20/081020fi_fiction_doyle Sleep at the New Yorker]" (20 October 2008), [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615173129/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5716288.ece ''The Sunday Times'' online text]</ref>
* "The Bandstand" (2009)<ref>A homeless Polish immigrant in Dublin comes to terms with money and his family. "San Francisco Panorama," 8 December 2009. Also, it was a work in progress published in monthly instalments in Dublin immigrant magazine Metro Éireann, and recently [http://www.metroeireann.com/authors/roddy-doyle,2 Dublin immigrant magazine "Metro Eireann" web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312013904/http://www.metroeireann.com/authors/roddy-doyle,2 |date=12 March 2009 }}</ref>
* "Brilliant" (2011)<ref>March 2011 [http://www.roddydoyle.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BrilliantbyRoddyDoyle.pdf Brilliant written by Roddy Doyle for St. Patrick’s Festival Parade 2011 & Dublin UNESCO City of Literature] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321202616/http://www.roddydoyle.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BrilliantbyRoddyDoyle.pdf |date=21 March 2012 }} Full text on Doyle's website</ref>
<!--Novellas - move these into the table above, with a note that they are novellas-->
* ''Not Just for Christmas'' (1999) (part of the [[Open Door Series]] of novellas for adult literacy)
* ''Mad Weekend'' (2006) (part of the [[Open Door Series]])
* ''Two Pints'' (2012)
* ''Two More Pints'' (2014)
* ''Two for the Road'' (2019)
* ''Dead Man Talking'' (2015) (part of the [[Quick Reads Initiative]])

===Plays===
* ''Brownbread'' (1987)
* ''War'' (1989)
* ''Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner?'' (2001)
* ''The Woman Who Walked into Doors'' (2003)
* Rewrite of ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'' (2007) with Bisi Adigun
*''Two Pints'' (2017)
*''The Snapper'' (2018)

===Screenplays===
* ''[[The Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]'' (1991)
* ''[[The Snapper (film)|The Snapper]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Family (1994)|Family]]'' (1994)
* ''[[The Van (1996 film)|The Van]]'' (1996)
* ''[[When Brendan Met Trudy]]'' (2000)
* ''[[The Deportees and Other Stories#Adaptations|New Boy]]'' (2008)
* ''[[Rosie (2018 film)|Rosie]]'' (2018)

===Children's books===
* ''Wilderness'' (2007)
* ''Her Mother's Face'' (2008)
* ''A Greyhound of a Girl'' (2011)
*''Brilliant''
;The "Rover Adventures" series
* ''The Giggler Treatment'' (2000)
* ''Rover Saves Christmas'' (2001)
* ''The {{not a typo|Meanwhile}} Adventures'' (2004)
* ''Rover and the Big Fat Baby'' (2016)

===Non-fiction===
* ''Rory and Ita'' (2002) – about Doyle's parents
* ''The Second Half'' (2014) – memoirs of [[Roy Keane]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thescore.ie/roy-keane-book-roddy-doyle-the-second-half-1674088-Sep2014/ |title=Roddy Doyle: Keane was fantastic to work with right down to the proof-reading |publisher=The Score ([[TheJournal.ie]]) |date=2014-09-16 |access-date=2014-10-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141004115732/http://www.thescore.ie/roy-keane-book-roddy-doyle-the-second-half-1674088-Sep2014/ |archive-date= 4 October 2014}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
{{Library resources box|by=yes|lcheading= Doyle, Roddy}}
* "Roddy Doyle." ''[[Contemporary Authors Online]]''. Detroit: Gale, 2012. [http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1000114801&v=2.1&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w]
* Abel, Marco. "Roddy Doyle." British Novelists Since 1960: Second Series. Ed. Merritt Moseley. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 194. [http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1200007813&v=2.1&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w]
* Allen Randolph, Jody. "Roddy Doyle, August 2009." ''Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland.'' Manchester: Carcanet, 2010.
* Boland, Eavan. "Roddy Doyle." ''Irish Writers on Writing.'' San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2007.
* McArdle, Niall. ''An Indecency Decently Put: Roddy Doyle and Contemporary Irish Fiction''. (M.A. thesis, 1994, University College, Dublin)
* McCarthy, Dermot. ''Roddy Doyle: Raining on the Parade.'' Dublin: Liffey Press, 2003.
* Mouchel-Vallon, Alain. ''La réécriture de l'histoire dans les Romans de Roddy Doyle, [[Dermot Bolger]] et [[Patrick McCabe (novelist)|Patrick McCabe]]'' (PhD thesis, 2005, Reims University, France). [http://www.sudoc.abes.fr]
* Reynolds, Margaret, and Jonathan Noakes. ''Roddy Doyle: The Essential Guide.'' London: Random House, 2004.
* White, Caramine. ''Reading Roddy Doyle.'' Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2001.

==External links==
; General
* [http://www.roddydoyle.ie/ Doyle's website]
* [http://www.fightingwords.ie/ Fighting Words Writing Centre]
; Works by Doyle
* [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/roddy_doyle/search?contributorName=roddy%20doyle Archive] of Doyle's short fiction for ''The New Yorker''.
:"[https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016fi_fiction The Photograph]" (16 October 2006)
:"[https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/11/29/041129fi_fiction The Joke]" (29 November 2004)
* [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/feb/22/roddy-doyle-rules-for-writers Roddy Doyle's rules for writers]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1144626,00.html Roddy Doyle's verdict on James Joyce's Ulysses]
; Interviews and reviews
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050216194134/http://www.irishwriters-online.com/roddydoyle.html Author page] at Irish Writers Online
* [http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Doyle.html Roddy Doyle: Author Biography], Postcolonial Studies at Emory
* [http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1999/10/28/doyle/index.html The ''Salon'' Interview: Roddy Doyle]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/roddy-doyle/ Roddy Doyle] at Fantastic Fiction
* [http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/doyleroddy/paulaspencer Reviews of Paula Spencer (2006)]
* {{IMDb title|0109769|Family}}
* {{IMDb title|0220157|When Brendan Met Trudy}}

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