Doyle gained further critical acclaim with the publication of
The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996). Representing much of the criticism Doyle has received over the past ten years, Mary Jordan wrote in
The Washington Post (4 February 1995) that there "is no other writer documenting modern Ireland--the new Ireland of the European union, a land more U2 than lovelorn tenor, more working man than Quiet Man--the way Roddy Doyle is."
The third of four children--two girls and two boys--of Rory and Ida Bolger Doyle, Roddy Doyle was born 8 May 1958 in Dublin. He grew up in Kilbarrack, a working-class district six miles north of Dublin's city center, where his father was a printer for the government and then an employee of an agency for the coordination of apprentices; his mother was a secretary for a lawyer. Doyle was educated at a National School in Raheny from 1963 to 1971 and at St. Fintan's Christian Brothers School in Sutton from 1971 to 1976. He graduated from University College, Dublin, in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in English and geography.
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