The Commitments (novel)

The Commitments
First Edition
AuthorRoddy Doyle
IllustratorDerek Spiers
Cover artistCharlie O’Neill
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Barrytown Trilogy
GenreComedy
PublisherKing Farouk (Dublin)
Publication date
1987
Publication placeIreland
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages144
ISBN0-9512072-0-2
Followed byThe Snapper 

The Commitments (1987) (originally to be called The Partitions) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy, it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.