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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha pdf book was awarded with Booker Prize (), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (). The main character of the story are Paddy Clarke. The book Download Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, 5/05/ · Paddy is proud of his status as an oldest son, and he is characteristically condescending to his younger brother, Sinbad, and his two baby sisters. See eNotes Ad-Free Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Roddy Doyle)» p.1» Global Archive Voiced Books Online Free Author No Naked Ads -> Here! 1 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, page 1 Select Voice: Try our free service - 10/07/ · Leave/Bibliography. Personal Connection. Recommendation. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Quotes. Author. Hello and Welcome to My Paddy Clarke Report. Click on anything. They ... read more

I had to keep an eye on Deirdre in the pram while our ma put clean socks on Sinbad. She wiped his nose and looked at his eyes for ages and pushed the tears away with her knuckle. I was afraid she'd ask him what was wrong with him and he'd tell her. I rocked the pram the way she always did it. We lit fires. We were always lighting fires. I took off my jumper so there wouldn't be a smell of smoke off it. It was cold now but that didn't matter as much. I looked for somewhere clean to put the jumper. We were at the building site. The building site kept changing, the fenced-in part of it where they kept the diggers and the bricks and the shed the builders sat in and drank tea. There was always a pile of bread crusts outside the shed door, huge batch crusts with jam stains on the edges.

We were looking through the wire fence at a seagull trying to pick up one of the crusts - it was too long for the seagull's beak; he should have grabbed it in the middle - when another crust came flying out the shed door and hit the side of the seagull's head. We heard the roars of the men's laughing from inside the shed. We'd go down to the building site and it wouldn't be there any more, just a square patch of muck and broken bricks and tyre marks. There was a new road where there'd been wet cement the last time we were there and the new site was at the end of the road. We went over to where we'd written our names with sticks in the cement, but they'd been smoothed over; they'd gone. Our names were all around Barrytown, on the roads and paths. You had to do it at night when they were all gone home, except the watchmen. Then when they saw the names in the morning it was too late, the cement was hard. Only our christian names, just in case the builders ever went from door to door up Barrytown Road looking for the boys who'd been writing their names in their wet cement.

There wasn't only one building site; there were loads of them, all different types of houses. We wrote Liam's name and address with a black marker on a new plastered wall inside one of the houses. Nothing happened. My ma once smelt the smoke off me. She saw my hands first. She grabbed one of them. My God, Patrick, you must be in mourning for the cat. Then she smelt me. She killed me. The worst part was waiting to see if she'd tell my da when he came home. Kevin had the matches, a box of Swan ones. I loved those boxes. We'd made a small wigwam out of planks and sticks and we'd brought two cardboard boxes with us from behind the shops.

The boxes were ripped up and under the wood. Wood by itself took too long to get going. It was still daytime. Kevin lit a match. Me and Liam looked around to see if there was anyone coming. There was no one else with us. Aidan was staying in his auntie's house. Sinbad was in hospital because he had to get his tonsils out. Kevin put the match under the cardboard, waited for it to grab the flame and let go of the match. We watched the fire eat the cardboard. Then we ran for cover. I couldn't really use matches properly.

The match broke or it wouldn't light or I'd pull it along the wrong side of the box; or it would light and I'd get rid of it too quickly. We waited behind one of the houses. When the watchman came we'd run. We were near the hedge, the escape route. Kevin said that they couldn't do anything to you if they didn't catch you on the building site. If they grabbed us or hit us out on the road we could bring them to court. We couldn't see the fire properly. We waited. It wasn't a house yet, just some of the walls. It was a line of six houses joined together. The Corporation were building the houses here. We waited for a while. I'd forgotten my jumper. We crawled around the side of the house; not all the way because it was taking too long. There was a barrel over near where I'd put my jumper. I ran for cover. I crouched behind the barrel and breathed in and out real hard, getting ready to go.

I looked back; Kevin stood up properly, looked around and got back down again. I took a last breath and came out from behind the barrel and dashed for the jumper. No one shouted. I made a noise like bombs exploding as I grabbed the jumper off the bricks. I slid back behind the barrel. The fire was going well, loads of smoke. I got a stone and threw it at the fire. Kevin stood up again and scouted for a watchman. The coast was clear and he signalled me to come. I charged, crouched down and got to the side of the house.

Kevin patted me on the back. So did Liam. I tied the jumper around my waist. I put the sleeves in a double knot. Kevin ran out from behind our cover; we followed him and danced around the fire. It wasn't much of a fire now. I stopped dancing. So did Kevin and Liam. Kevin pushed and pulled Liam to the fire. I helped Kevin. Liam got serious, so we stopped. We were sweating. I had an idea. We ran back to behind the house and laughed. We all joined in. The watchman is a bas-stard! We heard something; Kevin did. We escaped, dashed across the remains of the field. I zigzagged, head down, so no bullets would get me. I fell through the gap into the ditch.

We had a fight, just pushing. Liam missed my shoulder and punched my ear and it stung, so he had to let me hit him in the ear back. He put his hands in his pockets so he wouldn't try to stop me. We got out of the ditch cos the midgeys were landing on our faces. Sinbad wouldn't put the lighter fuel in his mouth. He squirmed but I held onto him. We were in the school yard, in the shed. I liked halibut oil. When you cracked the plastic with your teeth the oil spread over the inside of your mouth, like ink through blotting paper. It was warm; I liked it. The plastic was nice as well. It was Monday; Henno was in charge of the yard, but he always stayed over at the far side watching whoever was playing handball. He was mad; if he'd come over to our side, the shed, he'd have caught loads of us in the act. If a teacher caught five fellas smoking or doing serious messing he got a bonus in his wages; that was what Fluke Cassidy said and his uncle was a teacher. But Henno only watched handball and sometimes he took his jacket and his jumper off and played it as well.

He was brilliant. When he hit the ball you couldn't see it till it hit the wall; it was like a bullet. He had a sticker in his car: Live Longer, Play Handball. Sinbad's lips had disappeared because he was pressing them shut so hard; we couldn't get his mouth open. Kevin pressed the fuel capsule against his mouth but it wouldn't go in. I pinched Sinbad's arm; no good. This was terrible; in front of the others, I couldn't sort out my little brother. I got the hair above his ear and pulled it up; I lifted him: I just wanted to hurt him. His eyes were closed now as well but the tears were getting out. I held his nose. He gasped and Kevin shoved the capsule half-way into his mouth. Then Liam lit it with the match. We said we'd get Liam to light it, me and Kevin, just in case we got caught.

It went like a dragon. I preferred magnifying glasses to matches. We spent afternoons burning little piles of cut grass. I loved watching the grass change colour. I loved it when the flame began to race through the grass. You had more control with a magnifying glass. It was easier but it took more skill. If the sun stayed out long enough you could saw through a sheet of paper and not have to touch it, just put down a stone in each corner to stop it from blowing away. We'd have a race; burn, blow it out, burn, blow it out. Last to burn the paper completely in half had to let the other fella burn his hand. We'd draw a man on the paper and burn holes in him; in his hands and his feet, like Jesus. We drew long hair on him. We left his mickey till last. We cut roads through the nettles. My ma wanted to know what I was doing going out wearing my duffel coat and mittens on a lovely nice day.

The nettles were huge; giant ones. The hives from their stings were colossal, and they itched for ages after they'd stopped stinging. They took up a big corner of the field behind the shops. Nothing else grew there, just the nettles. After we hacked them over with a sideways swing of our sticks and hurleys we had to mash them down. Juice from the nettles flew up. We built roads right through the nettles, a road each because of the swinging sticks and hurleys. When we were going home the roads had met and there were no nettles left. The hurleys were green and I had two stings on my face; I'd taken off my balaclava because my head was itchy. I was looking at crumbs. My da put his hand on the magnifying glass and I let him take it. He looked at the hairs on his hand.

he said. He handed it back. He pressed his thumb down hard on the kitchen table. I wasn't sure. I shifted my chair over closer to him and held the glass over where his thumb had been. We both looked through the glass. All I could see was the yellow and red dots of the tabletop, bigger. I followed him into the living room. said my ma. He put his hand on my shoulder. We went to the window. He dragged the armchair over for me to stand on. He hauled up the venetian blinds. He spoke to them. He locked the cord and held it for a while to make sure that both sides of the blinds stayed up. He pressed his thumb on the glass. The smudge became lines, curved tracks.

I pressed my thumb on the glass, hard. He held me so I didn't fall off the chair. I looked. I said nothing; I wasn't sure. Did you know that? A few days later Napoleon Solo found fingerprints on his briefcase. I looked up at my father. We didn't do the barn. We didn't put it on fire. The barn had been left behind. When the Corporation bought Donnelly's farm he bought a new one near Swords. He moved everything out there except his house and the barn, and the smell. The smell was really bad on wet days. The rain freshened up the pigshite that had been lying there for years. The barn was huge and green, and great when it was full of hay.

We crept in from the back before the new houses were built. It was dangerous. Donnelly had a gun and a one-eyed dog. Cecil, the dog's name was. Donnelly had a mad brother as well, Uncle Eddie. He was in charge of the chickens and the pigs. He raked the stones and pebbles of the driveway in front of the house every time a car or a tractor went over them and messed them up. Uncle Eddie walked by our house one day when my ma was painting the gate. My ma mentioned Uncle Eddie when we were having our dinner one day. Uncle Eddie had two eyes but he was a bit like Cecil because one of them was closed over. My da said that it went that way because it got caught in a draught when Uncle Eddie was looking through a keyhole.

When you were doing a funny face or pretending you had a stammer and the wind changed or someone thumped your back you stayed that way for ever. Declan Fanning - he was fourteen and his parents were thinking of sending him off to boarding school because he smoked - he had a stammer and he got it because he was jeering someone with a stammer and someone else thumped him in the back. Uncle Eddie didn't have a stammer but he could only say two words, Grand, grand. We were at mass and the Donnellys were behind us and Father Moloney said, -You may be seated. We were getting up from our knees and Uncle Eddie went, -Grand, grand. Sinbad burst out laughing. I looked at my da to make sure that he didn't think it was me. You could climb up the bales of hay, right up into the barn. We dived down from one level to another level of bales. We never hurt ourselves; it was brilliant. Liam and Aidan said that their Uncle Mick, their ma's brother, had a barn like Donnelly's barn. They didn't know.

We saw mice. I never saw any, but I heard them. I said I saw them. Kevin saw loads of them. I saw a squashed rat. The marks of the tyre were on it. We tried to light it but it wouldn't go. We were up in the top of the barn. Uncle Eddie came in. He didn't know we were there. We held our breaths. Uncle Eddie walked around in a circle twice and went back out. There was a block of sunlight at the door. It was one of those big corrugated-iron doors that slid across. The whole barn was corrugated iron. We were so high up we could touch the roof. The barn became surrounded by skeleton houses. The road outside was being widened and there were pyramids of huge pipes at the top of the road, up at the seafront. The road was going to be a main road to the airport.

Kevin's sister, Philomena, said that the barn looked like the houses' mother looking after them. We said she was a spa, but it did; it did look like the houses' ma. Three fire brigades came out from town to put the fire out but they weren't able to. The whole road was flooded from all the water. It happened during the night. The fire was gone when we got up the next morning and our ma said we couldn't go near the barn and she kept an eye on us to make sure we didn't. I got up into the apple tree but I couldn't see anything. It wasn't much of a tree and it was full of leaves.

It only ever grew scabby apples. They found a box of matches outside the barn; that was what we heard. Missis Parker from the cottages told our ma. Mister Parker worked for Donnelly; drove the tractor and went to the pictures with Uncle Eddie every Saturday afternoon. That's right. Sinbad didn't believe me but he did believe me as well. His eyes went all wet; I hated him. Uncle Eddie was burnt to death in the fire; we heard that as well. Missis Byrne from two houses up told my ma. She whispered it and they blessed themselves. I was dying to get down to the barn to see Uncle Eddie, if they hadn't taken him away. My ma made us have a picnic in the garden. My da came home from work. He went to work in the train. My ma got up out of the picnic so she could talk to him without us hearing. I knew what she was telling him, about Uncle Eddie.

said my da. My ma nodded. All he said was Grand grand. There was a gap and then they burst out laughing, the two of them. He wasn't dead at all. He wasn't even hurt. The barn was never green again. It was bent and buckled. The roof was crooked like the lid of a can. It swung and creaked. The big door was put leaning against the yard wall. It was all black. One of the walls was gone. The black on the walls fell off and the whole thing became brown and rusty. Everyone said that someone from the new Corporation houses had done it. Later, about a year after, Kevin said he'd done it. But he didn't. He was in Courtown in a caravan on his holidays when it happened.

I didn't say anything. On a nice day we could see the specks of dust in the air under the roof. Sometimes I'd go home and it was in my hair. On windy days big dead chunks fell off. The ground under the roof was red. The barn was nibbled away. Sinbad promised. My ma pushed his hair back from his forehead and combed her fingers through it to keep it on top of his head. My ma started to untie his hands. I was crying as well. She tied his hands to the chair to stop him from picking the scabs on his lips. He'd screamed. His face had gone red, then purple, and one of the screams went on for ever; he didn't breathe in. Sinbad's lips were covered in scabs because of the lighter fuel.

For two weeks it had looked like he had no lips. She held his hands at his sides but she let him stand up. She was checking to see that he wasn't telling a lie. Francis was Sinbad. He put his tongue back in. She let go of his hands but he didn't go anywhere. I went over to where they were. You ran down the jetty and jumped and shouted Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, and whoever got the most words out before they hit the water won. No one ever won. I once got as far as the second The but Kevin, the ref, said that my bum had gone into the water before I got to Of. We threw stones at each other, to miss.

I hid behind the sideboard when the Seaview was being swallowed by a giant jellyfish; it was terrible. I didn't mind it at first and I put my fingers in my ears when my da told my ma that it was ridiculous. But when the jellyfish kind of surrounded the submarine I crawled over to the sideboard. I'd been lying on my tummy in front of the telly. I didn't cry. My ma said that the jellyfish had gone but I didn't come back out till I heard the ads. She brought me to bed after it and stayed with me for a while. Sinbad was asleep. I got up for a drink of water. She said she wouldn't let me watch it next week but she forgot. Anyway, the next week it was back to normal again, about a mad scientist who'd invented a new torpedo.

Admiral Nelson gave him a box that sent him bashing into the periscope. He didn't see it; he just heard it. He didn't look up from his book. I didn't like that; he was jeering me. My ma was knitting. I was the only one let up to watch it. I told Sinbad it was brilliant but I wouldn't tell him why. I was in the water down at the seafront, with Edward Swanwick. He didn't go to the same school as most of us. He went to Belvedere in town. She laughed. Edward Swanwick had to wear a blazer and tie and he had to play rugby. He said he hated it but he came home on his own in the train every day so it wasn't too bad.

We were flinging water at each other. We'd stopped laughing cos we'd been doing it for ages. The tide was going out so we'd be getting out in a minute. Edward Swanwick pushed his hands out and sent a wave towards me and there was a jellyfish in it. A huge see-through one with pink veins and a purple middle. I lifted my arms way up and started to move but it still rubbed my side. I screamed. I pushed through the water to the steps. I felt the jellyfish hit my back; I thought I did. I yelled again; I couldn't help it. It was rocky and uneven down at the seafront, not like the beach. I got to the steps and grabbed the bar. He was coming back to the steps a long way, around the jellyfish. I got onto the second step. I looked for marks. Jellyfish stings didn't hurt until you got out of the water. There was a pink lash on the side of my belly; I could see it. I was out of the water. I showed him my wound. He was up on the platform now, looking over the railing at the jellyfish.

I took my togs off without bothering with the towel. There was no one else. The jellyfish was still floating there, like a runny umbrella. Edward Swanwick was hunting for stones. He went down some of the steps to reach for some but he wouldn't get back into the water. I couldn't get my T-shirt down over my back and chest because I was wet. It was stuck on my shoulders. I had my T-shirt on now. I lifted it to make sure the mark was still there. I thought it was beginning to get sore. I wrung out my togs over the railing. Edward Swanwick was plopping stones near the jellyfish.

He missed. I wrapped my togs in my towel. It was a big soft bath one. I shouldn't have had it. I ran all the way, up Barrytown Road, all the way, past the cottages where there was a ghost and an old woman with a smell and no teeth, past the shops; I started to cry when I was three gates away from our house; around the back, in the kitchen door. Ma was feeding the baby. She looked down for a cut on my leg. I got my T-shirt out to show her. I was really crying now. I wanted a hug and ointment and a bandage. She touched my side. No, look; the mark across. It's highly poisonous.

Oh, now I do. I pulled my T-shirt down. I tucked it into my pants. she asked me. That'll mend it. Have I time for me to finish feeding Deirdre and Cathy before we put it on? I pressed my hand hard into my side to keep the mark there. The seafront was a pumping station. There was a platform behind it with loads of steps down to it. When there was a spring tide the water spread over the platform. There were more steps down to the water. There were steps on the other side of the pumping station as well but it was always cold over there and the rocks were bigger and sharper. It was hard to get past them to the water. The jetty wasn't really a jetty. It was a pipe covered in cement. The cement wasn't smooth. There were bits of stone and rock sticking out of it. You couldn't dash along to the end. You had to watch your step and not put your foot down too hard. It was hard to play properly down at the seafront. There was too much seaweed, slime and rocks; you always had to keep your eyes down searching under the water.

All you could really do was swim. I was good at swimming. Sinbad wouldn't get in unless our ma was with him. Kevin once dived off the jetty and split his head. He had to go into Jervis Street for stitches. He went in a taxi with his ma and his sister. Some of us weren't allowed to swim down at the seafront. If you cut your toe on a rock you'd get polio. A boy from Barrytown Drive, Sean Rickard, died and it was supposed to have been because he'd swallowed a mouthful of the seafront water. Someone else said he'd swallowed a gobstopper and it got caught in his windpipe. We looked at Kevin thumping his back. We all tried it. She spoke softer. The seafront water was grand, my da said. The Corporation experts had tested it and it was perfect. My Granda Finnegan, her father, worked in the Corporation.

The teacher we had before Henno, Miss Watkins, brought in a tea-towel with the Proclamation of Independence on it because it was fifty years after It had the writing part in the middle and the seven men who'd signed it around the sides. She stuck it up over the blackboard and let us up to see it one by one. Some of the boys blessed themselves in front of it. she kept saying after every couple of boys went past. I looked at the names at the bottom. Thomas J. Clarke was the first one. Clarke, like my name. Miss Watkins got her bata[3] and read the proclamation out for us and pointed at each word.

Signed on behalf of the provisional government, Thomas J. Clarke, Seán MacDiarmada, Thomas MacDonagh, P. Pearse, Eamonn Ceannt, James Connolly, Joseph Plunkett. Miss Watkins started clapping, so we did as well. We started laughing. She stared at us and we stopped but we kept clapping. I turned back to James O'Keefe. Pass it on. Miss Watkins rapped the blackboard with the bata. The prefabs were behind the school. You could crawl under them. The varnish at the front of them was all flaky because of the sun; you could peel it off. We didn't get a room in the proper school, the cement one, until a year after this, when we got changed to Henno. We loved marching. We could feel the boards hopping under us. We put so much effort into slamming our feet down that we couldn't keep in time. She made us do this a couple of times a day, when she said we were looking lazy. While we marched this time Miss Watkins read the proclamation. She had to stop. It wasn't proper marching any more.

She hit the blackboard. Kevin put his hand up. It took ages for me to get out of my desk. I smiled. She pointed at Thomas Clarke in one of the corners of the tea-towel. He looked like a granda. The only noise was me on the floorboards. She pointed to a bit of writing under Thomas Clarke's head. And this is your grandfather who lives in Clontarf, is it, Patrick Clarke? I pretended to look at the picture again. Is this man your grandfather? She gave me three on each hand. When I got back to the desk I couldn't put the seat down; my hands couldn't do anything. James O'Keefe pushed the seat down for me with his foot. It made a bang; I thought she'd get me again. I put my hands under my legs. I didn't crouch: she wouldn't let us.

The pain was like my hands had dropped off; it would soon become more of a wet sting. The palms were beginning to sweat like mad. There was no noise. I looked over at Kevin. I grinned but my teeth chattered. I saw Liam turn round at the front of the row, waiting for Kevin to look his way, waiting to grin for him. I liked my Granda Clarke, much more than Granda Finnegan. Granda Clarke's wife, my Grandma, wasn't alive any more. He gave me half a crown when we went to see him or when he came to see us. He once came on a bike. I was messing through the drawers in the sideboard one night when Mart and Market was on the television.

The bottom drawer was so full of photographs that when I was sliding the drawer back in some of the photographs on the top of the pile fell out the back onto the floor under the sideboard. I got them out from under there. One of them was of Granda and Grandma Clarke. We hadn't been to his house in ages. My da looked like he'd lost something, then found it, but it wasn't what he'd wanted. He sat up. He looked at me for a while. I couldn't. He picked me up. My da's hands were big. The fingers were long. They weren't fat. I could make out the bone under the skin and the flesh. He had one of his hands dangling over the chair. He was holding his book with his other hand. His nails were clean -except for one - and the white bits at the top were longer than mine.

The wrinkles at his knuckles were a bit like the design of a wall, the cement between the bricks up and across. There weren't many other wrinkles but the pores were like hollows, with a hair for every pore. Dark hair. Hair came out from under his cuff. The Naked and the Dead. That was what the book was called. There was a soldier on the cover with his uniform on. His face was dirty. He was American. He looked at the cover. I nodded at the cover. I'll let you know. World War Three Looms Near. I got the paper every day for my da when he'd get home from work, and at the same time on Saturdays.

Ma gave me the money; the Evening Press. I asked my ma. She looked at the headline. They exaggerate things. I asked her. She was making the dinner; she put on her busy look. Ireland wasn't really in the war. Your daddy will tell you. I was waiting for him. He came in the back door. He read it. He didn't seem fussed. He sometimes liked these questions, and sometimes he didn't. When he did he folded his legs if he was sitting down and leaned a bit to the side into his chair. That was what he did now, leaned nearer to me. I couldn't hear him for the first bit because it had been what I'd hoped he'd do - fold his legs and lean over - and it had happened the way I'd wanted it to. The same old story, I'm afraid. Internet Archive logo A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building façade. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest.

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Key Features: How to study the text - Author and historical background - General and detailed summaries - Commentary on themes, structure, characters, language and style - Glossaries - Test questions and issues to consider - Essay-writing advice - Cultural connections - Literary terms - Illustrations - Colour design. General Editors: John Polley - Senior GCSE Examiner Head of English, Harrow Way Community School, Andover; Martin Gray - Head of Literary Studies, University of Luton. Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of confidences--some planned, some spontaneous--in this captivating new book from the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

Old friends meet up on a summer's evening at a Dublin restaurant. Both are now married with grown-up children, and their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be. Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in store, but as two pints turns to three, then five, and the men set out to revisit the haunts of their youth, the ghosts of Dublin entwine around them. Their first buoyant forays into adulthood, the pubs, the parties, broken hearts and bungled affairs, as well as the memories of what eventually drove them apart.

As the two friends try to reconcile their versions of the past over the course of one night, Love offers a moving portrait of what it means to put into words the many forms love can take throughout our lives. A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending and uplifting short stories. Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories, Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move.

An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness and the shifting of history underneath our feet. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and set in a Dublin suburb during the World Cup, this completes a trilogy which began with The Commitments and The Snapper. Jimmy Rabitte Sr seeks refuge from the vicissitudes of unemployment by joining a friend in running a fish-and-chip van. The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects artworks to narrate a history of Ireland. Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. This book shares the concision of a collection of poems, and the timing of a virtuoso comedian.

An historical novel like none before it, A Star Called Henry marks a new chapter in Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle's writing. It is a vastly more ambitious book than any he has previously written. A subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism, at its centre a passionate love story, this new novel is a triumphant work of fiction. Born in the slums of Dublin in , his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, charming, often cold, always hungry, but a prince of the streets. At fourteen, already six foot two, Henry's in the General Post Office on Easter Monday , a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army, fighting for freedom. A year later he's ready to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian, and, soon, a killer. With his father's wooden leg as his weapon, Henry becomes a republican legend - one of Michael Collins' boys, a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike, a lover.

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