Roddy Doyle Quote

I live on an island called Ireland where most of the music is shite. I grew up listening to Danny Boy; I grew up hating Danny Boy, and all his siblings and his granny. The pipes, the pipes are caw-haw-hawing. Anything with pipes or fiddles or even - forgive me, Paul - banjos, I detested. Songs of loss, of love, of going across the sea; songs of defiance and rebellion - I vomited on all of them.

Roddy Doyle

I live on an island called Ireland where most of the music is shite. I grew up listening to Danny Boy; I grew up hating Danny Boy, and all his siblings and his granny. The pipes, the pipes are caw-haw-hawing. Anything with pipes or fiddles or even - forgive me, Paul - banjos, I detested. Songs of loss, of love, of going across the sea; songs of defiance and rebellion - I vomited on all of them.

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About Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle (born Roderick Doyle, 8 May 1958) 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 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.