Roddy Doyle - The Deportees: and Other Stories

THE DEPORTEES Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eight acclaimed novels and Rory & Ita, a memoir of his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. ALSO BY RODDY DOYLE Fiction The Commitments
The Van
The Snapper
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
A Star Called Henry
Oh, Play That Thing
Paula Spencer
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Non-Fiction
Rory & Ita
Plays
Brownbread
War
Guess Who's Coming For Dinner
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
No Messin' With the Monkeys
For Children
The Giggler Treatment
Rover Saves Christmas
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(19752007) These stories all appeared first in Metro Eireann. In its finished, but slightly altered, form, 'Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner' appeared in the New Yorker under the title 'The Dinner'. 'The Deportees', 'New Boy', 'The Pram', 'Home to Harlem' and 'I Understand' were published in McSweeney's. The author is grateful for permission to reprint material from the following: 'If You're Irish Come Into The Parlour' Words and Music by Shaun Glenville and Frank Miller 1919. 'The Deportees', 'New Boy', 'The Pram', 'Home to Harlem' and 'I Understand' were published in McSweeney's. The author is grateful for permission to reprint material from the following: 'If You're Irish Come Into The Parlour' Words and Music by Shaun Glenville and Frank Miller 1919.

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If your name is
Timothy
or Pat
So long as you come from Ireland
There's a welcome
on
the
mat.