Dubliners

by Chris O'Dowd

MP3 CD

About the author

Christopher O'Dowd is an Irish actor, best known for comedic roles such as Miles Daly in the Epix comedy series Get Shorty and Roy Trenneman in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd. O'Dowd created and starred in the Sky 1 television series Moone Boy, which aired between 2012 and 2015.He co-wrote a series based on his childhood called Moone Boy for Sky 1. Segments of the series are filmed in his hometown, Boyle. A book based on the series and also co-written by O'Dowd, Moone Boy: The Blunder Years, was published in May 2015. He had a recurring role on the comedy-drama series Girls.

O'Dowd is also known for his film roles, most notably Bridesmaids (2011), This Is 40 (2012), The Sapphires (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Calvary (2014), and St. Vincent (2014). He made his Broadway debut in the play adaptation of Of Mice and Men in 2014, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tough going as an audiobook, even though Chris O'Dowd expends himself fiercely with every scrap of poetry in his body!

[Merlot58 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this much better than Ulysses (I just didn’t get most of the references to The Odyssey), these stories are little slices of life in Ireland and give you a really good sense of what it was like at the beginning of the 1900’s and how people lived and spoke.

O’Dowd is a fantastic reader. Highly recommend.

[DEBrianKelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

O'Dowd does a brilliant narration job!

[Troy Tradup · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brilliant match of narrator to content -- Chris O'Dowd's reading is superb. Although I don't believe there's any actor alive who can save the interminable penultimate story, "Grace."