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In 1991, a gritty Irish music film about an unlikely soul band became one of the most beloved rock movies of its era. Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, the film follows a group of working-class ...

Roddy Doyle's best-selling novel, THE COMMITMENTS, is now live on stage for the very first time. Be the first to experience this musical as it makes its World Premiere at the Palace Theatre in ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

Is it just us, or is it hard to believe it's been 34 years since the now-iconic film The Commitments hit the big screen? Released on October 4th in 1991, the Roddy Doyle-penned film made superstars ...

Wannabe-impresario Jimmy Rabbitte has a question: “Have you got soul?” The question opens an ad Jimmy has placed in a Dublin paper aimed at recruiting members for a new R&B band. It also underpins ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish author Roddy Doyle's bestselling novel "The Commitments" is finally being made into a musical, more than 25 years after the heartwarming tale of a group of aspiring soul ...

Bizarre but true: For all its raucous soul sound, “The Commitments” turns out to be a reinvention of old-fashioned Mickey-and-Judy musicals. But where they “put the show on right here,” this is Roddy ...

When Alan Parker was casting his wildly popular 1991 film The Commitments, about a group of struggling North Dublin rockers covering American soul classics, he emphasized musicianship over acting ...