Scholarcast Series 13: Dublin, One City One Book 2015 - The Barrytown Trilogy
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English - April 24, 2015 09:00 - 3 minutes - 1023 Bytes Video - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsEducation ucd scholarcast art culture literature english dcu paige reynolds frank mcguinness claire wills Homepage Download IPFS Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Roddy Doyle is perhaps the single most successful novelist of this period, gaining an audience far beyond the environs of Dublin's Northside where most of his writing is set. Along with the emergence of rock group U2, Doyle represents a brash generational shift, a confident certitude in his generation's worth and ability. His literary focus is not exactly the urban world; rather it is the suburban world.