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For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for IMetro Eireann/I, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, 'The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides ndash; in a phrase she has learnt ndash; to 'scare them shitless'. Most of the stories are very funny ndash; in '57% Irish' Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, IRiverdance/I and 'Danny Boy' ndash; others deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself,Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie.
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The Deportees and Other Stories, Roddy Doyle
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- Released
- 2007
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Roddy Doyle
- Publisher
- Random House
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 242
- ISBN10
- 022408061X
- ISBN13
- 9780224080613
- Series
- Original title
- The deportees
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for IMetro Eireann/I, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, 'The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides ndash; in a phrase she has learnt ndash; to 'scare them shitless'. Most of the stories are very funny ndash; in '57% Irish' Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, IRiverdance/I and 'Danny Boy' ndash; others deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself,Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie.