When his close friend died, Roddy Doyle and his friends went to the pub. 'It seems like a totally inadequate way ... to mark the death of a friend — to go off and get drunk. But on the other hand, what is an adequate way to mark the death of a friend?'
Novelist Roddy Doyle is not an autobiographical writer, but he does acknowledge:"The characters have been getting older as I get older."Joe and Davy are two old friends who meet at a Dublin pub for a night of reconnecting and hard drinking. Joe has a burning secret; Davy has a concealed sorrow.
They find that their old friendship is brand new and current and actually extended right back to their childhoods. One of them had emigrated — as an awful lot of Irish people of my generation would have done. And in a way, when he returns to Dublin, he returns as a Dubliner, but also as a foreigner. We've been in lockdown here since early March. And my closest friends — men I grew up with and I've known since I was a teenager — we would meet once a week, perhaps sometimes more often, late at night in a local pub. And now we've met a few times, but it's out in the park drinking coffee because we can't go anywhere else. So we're. a little bit, in terms of our cultural lives, we're a bit homeless because there's no pub to go to.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
SEC Urging Mississippi To Change State Flag, Threatens To Pull Title GamesThe SEC commish said 'it is past time' for the state to pull the flag.
Read more »
Perspective | Destroying Confederate monuments isn’t ‘erasing’ history. It’s learning from it.'Destroying Confederate monuments isn’t 'erasing' history. It’s learning from it.' via posteverything
Read more »
Tracee Ellis Ross's Pattern Hair-Care Collection Is Expanding to Include Styling ProductsPattern is breaking out from under the water with a new array of styling products.
Read more »
'Love, Victor': 7 Inspiring Life Lessons We Learned From SimonSeason 1 of the 'Love, Simon' spinoff series is now streaming on Hulu.
Read more »