Roddy Doyle was born in May of 1958 in the northern Dublin suburb of Kilbarrack, Ireland. From Roddy Doyle's point of view, he seemed to have had a happy childhood, especially when he told an interviewer, " There are memories of my own childhood, running through a field and seeing pheasants fly up, balls of dust under the kitchen table, and my parents happily married." He also said talking about his childhood that "The place was mine, and the time was mine." He was raised in a middle-class family, quite different from the gritty, working-class characters in his books. He attended St. Fintan's Christian Brothers School in Sutton and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He continued his education at University College, Dublin, where he achieved a Bachelors degree in English and geography. He undertook teacher training at Greendale Community School, in Kilbarrack, and after getting certified, he became a member of that school's faculty. He taught fourteen years at Greendale, where he was known to his students as "Punk" Do

yle because of the earring and the Doc Martens boots he wore. Doyle is currently married to Belinda Doyle and has two sons, Rory and Jack Doyle. Since 1993, Doyle has been dedicated to writing full time.

Truly Roddy Doyle is one of the great Irish writers, one of the new breed of writers who came of age in the 60's and 70's.

Roddy Doyle describes himself as one of the guys, and a soccer fanatic. He is said to be studious-looking and down-to-earth with both feet on the ground. "He still acts rather like a teacher..." John Rockwell observed.

According to Mary Jordon, " His favorite authors are American: Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Conner, and Anne Tyler," writers who, in Doyle's words, are " more intrested in the characters than their own cleverness."

Doyle's first novel came in the 1980's. The novel was titled Your Granny's a Hunger Striker; Doyle said it was "brilliant," but after that it went completely downhill. Later in the 80's, approximately 1986, he published the first successful novel of his writing career. The name of it was The Commitments, which, with the help of a friend, he published himself under the "King Farouk" imprint, and sold himself. One copy of his book landed at William Heinemann, a London-based publishing house. Heinemann enjoyed the book so much he decided to publish it himself in 1987. Two years late

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