Roddy Doyle

Female child narrators are rare in Irish Literature, while the notable presence of the male childhood is enough to form a genre of its own.  Thus when Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Tatty was published to great acclaim in 2004, it was breaking…

This week's Dubland starts off with a very wholesome gift giving. Very suddenly, almost without notice, it descends into an analysis of how this is the worst year of all time (and it's only February). We go through how Sinn Fein are getting…

Episode #71 of FNI Wrap Chat on the HeadStuff podcast network is the brilliant Neili Conroy. Neilí has worked as an Actor in film, television and theatre for over twenty years. She's one of three performers from her Family, Following in the…

This week on Up To 90, Emma and Julie talk Rabbits and Curleys as they look back on Roddy Doyle’s seminal films The Commitments and The Snapper. Emma identified with the latter so much, she actually went off and got pregnant in the…

This week, Twitter witnessed Belgium suffer a devastating terrorist attack in the country's capital, leaving 31 people dead and hundreds injured. We also prepared ourselves for the Easter centenary, got a bit tired of Roddy Doyle and…

The Prophets are Weeping President Michael D Higgins has released a new poem tackling extremism and displacement inspired by the flight of people in Northern Iraq and Syria. The poem was completed before the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris…

When given the task of picking the best books of 2014 I didn’t realise how vast and daunting a task it would turn out to be… So I scratched my head for a minute and then decided to enlist the help of some experts… So with huge gratitude to…