The Commitments

Roddy Doyle

About this book

The Commitments (1987) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.[2] 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.

---------- Also contained in: Barrytown Trilogy

Subjects

  • bands (music)
  • culchies
  • dublin (ireland), fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • gigs
  • musical fiction
  • musicians, fiction
  • soul music
  • soul musicians