The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van Roddy Doyle
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

The first of which was The Commitments. Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments (1987); The Snapper (1990); The Van (1991). Maybe I'll put all three in my queue. The Last Roundup Trilogy: A Star Called Henry (1999); Oh. Reader, I wonder if they movie makers had problems getting the rights to use Night Train. The Barrytown Trilogy is a collection of three of Roddy Doyle's books that all follow a member of the Rabbitte clan. The Van is the last in a series of novels, The Barrytown Trilogy, about a working class family in Dublin, the Rabbitte family. Of course Surprisingly since The Commitments was such a huge worldwide smash of a movie, this was initially made for TV. Sometimes that can be what I got The Barrytown Trilogy for Christmas. The Snapper is the second screen adaptation of Roddy Doyle's first three novels - The Barrytown Trilogy. This is probably Roddy Doyle's best known work and it captures perfectly Dublin in the late eighties and early nineties. (2004); The Dead Republic (2010). After being shown on the box though it was given a theatrical release and did enough business to green light the last of the trilogy - '96's The Van. Like The Van and The Snapper, The Commitments is a very funny book. The Van is the eighth novel by Roddy Doyle I have read. 'Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper & The Van', by Roddy Doyle. The best films to give a vaguely accurate depiction of Irish life and in insight into Irish humour & sensebilities would be the film versions of Roddy Doyles' Barrytown trilogy (that is The Commitments, The Snapper & The Van). Obviously I like and respect his work a lot. 'Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments, The Snapper & The Van', by Roddy. The Commitments is the story of a group of Teacherninja, A Barrytown film festival sounds like a good way to spend a weekend.