Word: barrytown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have met the Curleys before. Under another name they are the central figures of novelist Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy about working-class Irish folk, from which Doyle also adapted The Commitments for the screen. He's a writer who likes to pack lots of lively characters, talk and unpremeditated activity into relatively tight spaces, thereby creating the kind of lifelike untidiness, fractiousness and believable goofiness that American movie comedy, with its stress on easily summarizable concepts and subteen gag writing, can only dream about...