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Daily Archives: October 26, 2025
Classic Film Review: Renewing “The Commitments” to Irish Soul and Irish Joy (1991)
Twas the writer Roddy Doyle who re-introduced the literary world to the concept of “Irish joy.” Sure’twas. His “Barrytown Trilogy” of comic novels in the late ’80s and early ’90s — the self-published sensation “The Commitments,” “The Snapper” and “The … Continue reading
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Tagged art, books, colm-meaney, dublin, irish-cinema, music, roddy-doyle, soul-music
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