Novelist
Roddy Doyle
Irish novelist of The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, which won the Booker Prize, and a schoolteacher for fourteen years. Born in Dublin.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
- Born
- 1958-05-08, Dublin, IrelandA Thursday
- At birth
- Sun in Taurus, Moon in Capricorn
- Nationality
- Ireland
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1958-05-08, Dublin, Ireland · time unknown, noon chart
Europe/Dublinthe zone used then
Europe/DublinThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 17°20′ | Direct |
| Moon | Capricorn | 22°11′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Aries | 22°34′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aries | 3°15′ | Direct |
| Mars | Pisces | 8°20′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Libra | 24°12′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 24°49′ | Retrograde |
| Uranus | Leo | 7°46′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 3°01′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Leo | 29°47′ | Retrograde |
Roddy Doyle is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Roddy Doyle was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.