Storytellers: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

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Paddy Clarke, hero of this Booker Prize winner, loves life more than it loves him! 

Roddy Doyle’s Booker Prize-winner reveals a hero who loves life but who doesn’t really understand why people can’t just get along. 

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, lepers, and jumping to the bottom of the sea. But why didn't anyone help him when Charles Leavy had been going to kill him? Why do his ma and da argue so much, but act like everything is fine? Paddy sees everything, but he understands less and less. Hilarious and poignant, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha charts the triumphs, indignities, and bewilderment of a young boy and his world, a place full of warmth, cruelty, confusion and love.

Read by Mark Lambert
Directed by Eoin O’Callaghan
Executive Producer: Mary McKeagney



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Roddy Doyle’s witty novel about an Irish boy trying to make sense of his changing world.

Roddy Doyle’s Booker Prize-winner - a witty and poignant account of an Irish lad trying to make sense of his changing world. Read by Mark Lambert.

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