# The Deportees

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- Authors: [Roddy Doyle](https://www.bookquiver.com/roddy-doyle)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0701-343-5
- Published: 2008-12-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann , a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, 'The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides - in a phrase she has learnt - to 'scare them shitless'.