7. SJI Interviews Ep2: Roddy Doyle, Fighting Words

Listen to Roddy Doyle, one of Ireland's greatest living authors, in conversation with Mick Clifford of the Irish Examiner at our recent 2019 Social Policy Conference.

Roddy discusses Fighting Words, the organisation he created to help children and young people to discover and harness the power of their own imaginations and creative writing skills. He also gives his opinions on education policy (including his desire that the Leaving Certificate be scrapped and something else be built from scratch in its place), and many other areas.

Roddy has produced some of the greatest works of Irish fiction of the last three decades, including the Barrytown Trilogy, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors, and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, for which he won the Booker Prize in 1993.