![]() Jimmy Rabbitte isn’t so much the book’s protagonist as an inciting incident. The film was dwarfed at the box office by Disney’s animated feature, Beauty and the Beast ($14m worldwide gross Vs $248m), but The Commitments’ cultural legacy was set.ĭoyle’s novel had captured something raw and relatable about being working-class in Ireland in the 1980s (and working-class, young and unseen elsewhere). Then musician Elvis Costello praised the book’s portrayal of garage band life, publisher Random House picked it up – and suddenly, The Commitments had arrived.Ī film adaptation followed in 1991, along with two soundtrack albums. It was self-published, initially to not so great acclaim in the Dublin music press. Roddy Doyle’s debut novel was a slow-burn, cult, breakout hit, somehow all at the same time. ![]() Revisiting Roddy Doyle’s 1987 breakout novel, The Commitments, in which Blackness stands for joy, revolution and good music … but reveals the duality in how we talk about race. ![]()
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