Title: The Barrytown Trilogy
Description: Roddy Doyle's winning trio of comic novels depicting the daily life and times of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin.

[The Commitments](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL762611W/Commitments)
Still one of the freshest and funniest rock 'n' roll novels ever written, Doyle's first book portrays a group of aspiring musicians on a mission: to bring soul to Dublin.

[The Snapper](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL762613W/Snapper)
Doyle's sparkling second novel observes the progression of twenty-year-old Sharon's pregnancy and its impact on the Rabbitte family - especially on her father, Jimmy Sr - with with, candor, and surprising authenticity.

[The Van](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL762614W/Van)
Set during the heady days of Ireland's brief, euphoric triumphs in the 1990 World Cup, this Booker Prize nominee is a tender and hilarious tale of male friendship, midlife crisis, and family life.

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Subjects: Fiction, Bands (Music), Soul musicians, Musical fiction, soul music, gigs, culchies, City and town life, Friendship, Literature, Humorous stories, Humorous fiction, fish and chips, Unmarried mothers, Teenage pregnancy, literary fiction, women's fiction, Fiction, humorous, Literatura Expressao Inglesa, English fiction, Irish authors, Fiction, general, Ireland, fiction, Dublin (ireland), fiction
Places: Dublin, Ireland, Barrytown
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, Jimmy Rabbitte Sr., Brendan Reeves, Sharon Rabbitte, Rabbittes, Jimmy Rabbitte Sr, Veronica Rabbitte, George Burgess
Time periods: 1990