Title: The Commitments
Description: 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.


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Also contained in:
[Barrytown Trilogy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL762601W)
Subjects: Fiction, Bands (Music), Soul musicians, Musical fiction, soul music, gigs, culchies, Dublin (ireland), fiction, Musicians, fiction, Fiction, general
Places: Dublin, Ireland, Barrytown, America
People: Commitments, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Derek Scully, Outspan Foster, Jimmy Rabbitte, Joey Fagan, Joe Tex, Four Tops, Steven Clifford, Imelda Quire, Natalie Murphy, Mickah Wallace, Bernie McGloughlin, Dean Fay, Liam Foster, Billy Mooney, Declan Cuffe, Brassers