Wannabe-impresario Jimmy Rabbitte has a question: “Have you got soul?” The question opens an ad Jimmy has placed in a Dublin paper aimed at recruiting members for a new R&B band. It also underpins ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1991, a gritty Irish music film about an unlikely soul band became one of the most beloved rock movies of its era. Based on the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish author Roddy Doyle's bestselling novel "The Commitments" is finally being made into a musical, more than 25 years after the heartwarming tale of a group of aspiring soul ...

I loved the Alan Parker movie, and I loved the novel, Roddy Doyle‘s first, but I have mixed feelings about the new stage musical of The Commitments, which combines elements of both but somehow doesn’t ...

In 1991, a gritty Irish music film about an unlikely soul band became one of the most beloved rock movies of its era. The Commitments, directed by Alan Parker, was recently included in Consequence's ...