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  • Roddy Doyle
    Roddy Doyle
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    …Doyle wrote the BBC miniseries Family, which generated heated controversy throughout Ireland for its raw depiction of topics that were regarded as taboo. The program shed harsh light on a family’s struggle with domestic violence and alcoholism and offered a grim portrait of life in a housing estate, the same…

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    …Doyle wrote the BBC miniseries Family, which generated heated controversy throughout Ireland for its raw depiction of topics that were regarded as taboo. The program shed harsh light on a family’s struggle with domestic violence and alcoholism and offered a grim portrait of life in a housing estate, the same…

    Read More