The Barrytown Trilogy

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He has produced work for a number of commercial clients, television projects, and composed music for two short films. I haven't seen the movie but don't know how it could be any better -- funnier, quicker, sweeter, or even more musical -- than this. 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.

In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked the film at number 38 on its list of the "100 best British films of the century", based on votes from 1,000 leading figures of the film industry. Georgina "Gina" Rabbitte – sharon's daughter, born in The Snapper and featured as a toddler in The Van, often repeating in baby talk the profanity used by family members. Each time our flawed hero (Jimmy jr, Sharon, Jimmy sr) faces a problem and is thrown into extreme situations but always comes out on top. I was recommended this by an Irish friend and I think you have to have be or have an Irish streak to really enjoy it. The second - my favorite - focuses on the dad as he deals with his eldest daughter's out-of-wedlock pregnancy and seemingly just a glancing sweep of the daughter.I actually rediscovered the Rabbitte family when I stumbled across Doyle's recently written and published sequel "The Guts" (a must read, too! The snapper shows a different side of the Rabbitte family, seeing as 90 % of the commitments was just them singing soul in Joey's mother's garage.

The blurb for The Van made it seem like it was about a couple of buddies following the Irish World Cup team, but it really isn't.

The focus of these two is on the Rabbitte family as a whole, whereas The Commitments only featured Jimmy Jr.

The band comes together but ends up consisting entirely of white musicians who have little experience with the genre. His first novel, The Commitments, was published to great acclaim in 1987 and was made into a very successful film by Alan Parker.The third novel, The Van, is more somber and ambiguous, which is appropriate since it's about a later stage of life. Sharon Rabbitte is one of the daughters who accidentally is knocked up the pole by a local married resident.