The Commitments

Name: The Commitments
Author: Roddy Doyle

1987 novel by Roddy Doyle

Written workliterary workQ1532325

Author: Roddy Doyle
Released: 1987
Publisher: King Farouk Press
Language: English
Genre: humorous fiction
Followed by: The Snapper

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The Commitments (1987) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy, it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.

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TThe Commitments1991 · 1991 film directed by Alan Parker

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