Susannah doyle biography of rory

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Roddy Doyle

Irish father and writer (born 1958)

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Personal life

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Doyle was born plentiful Dublin, Eire, and grew up terminate Kilbarrack, flash a middle-class family.^[2] His mother, Ita (née Bolger) was a first relation of say publicly short forgery writer Maeve Brennan.^[3]

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Susannah Doyle (born 5 July 1966) is an English actress, playwright and film director, best known for her roles as Joy Merryweather in Drop The Dead Donkey and as Avril Burke in Ballykissangel.

The daughter of the Irish actor Tony Doyle, she realized that she wished to follow in his footsteps when, aged about five or six, she was taken to see him work, often in tiny theaters with audience and actors close together. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Her big TV break came in 1991 with the role of Joy, the intelligent, acid-tongued secretary and foil to her corporate-speak boss, in the Channel 4 comedy Drop The Dead Donkey. Other TV roles followed, including two episodes of Soldier, Soldier in 1996 and A Touch of Frost in 1997. When her father died in 2000, the producers of Ballykissangel asked whether she would join the cast. She had reservations over her ability to cope emotionally but took on the part of Avril Burke. In 2001, she also appeared in an episode of Cold Feet and one of Pie in the Sky. In 2012 she appeared in an episode of Lewis. In 2012 she appeared in an episode of police comedy Vexed.

Since 2001, she has been pursuing parallel careers of script-writing and acting.

In 2016, she appeared in "Shut Up and Dance", an episode

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Rory and Ita

Ita Doyle: "In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very interesting person." Rory and Ita, Roddy Doyle's first nonfiction book, tells, largely in their own words, the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods, the people (aunts, cousins, shopkeepers, friends, teachers), the politics (both came from Republican families), idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, for Rory, his apprenticeship as a printer. Ita's mother died when she was three ("the only memory I have is of her hands, doing things"); Rory was the oldest of nine children, five of them girls.

By the time they put down a deposit of 200 pounds for a house in Kilbarrack, Rory was working as a compositor at the Irish Independent. By the time the first of their four children was born, he'd become a teacher at the School of Printing in Dublin. Kilbarrack began to change ("it wasn't a rural place any more") and Ireland too.

Through their eyes we see the intensely Catholic society of their youth being transformed into the vibrant, modern Ireland of today. Both Rory and Ita Doyle