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Doyle grew up in Kilbarrack , County Dublin. He spent several years as an English teacher before becomming a full-time writer.

1 Works

1.1 Novels

• The Commitments (1987, film 1991)
• The Snapper
• The Van
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha ( Booker Prize 1993)
• The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1997) — a story of a battered wife, narrated by the victim; despite her husband's increasingly violent behaviour, she defends him, using the classic excuse "I walked into a door" to explain her bruises.
• A Star Called Henry (1999)
• Oh Play That Thing (2004)

1.2 Plays

• Brown Bread
• War