Patrick says that da would “be mean now and again, really mean for no reason…He was always busy. Patrick is named after his da, who works in the city. His ma maintains the home routine, playing the role of comforter while looking after Patrick’s younger sisters, toddler Catherine and infant Deirdre. Patrick is the oldest child in a working-class family. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is set in the late 1960s in the fictional north Dublin community of Barrytown. With his use of clipped dialogue, Irish vernacular, and stream-of-consciousness narration, Doyle vividly depicts the small but meaningful everyday experiences and emotions of his naïve child narrator. Ten-year-old Patrick Clarke narrates a year of his life as he transitions from carefree prankster to man of the house when his parents’ marriage falls apart. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is a coming-of-age novel written in 1993 by Irish author Roddy Doyle.
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