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| birth_place = Nenagh, Ireland| death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = Television critic, author| years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}John Doyle (born 1957) is a Canadian writer who is a television critic at The Globe and Mail.

Early life

John Doyle was born in 1957 in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, and came to Canada in 1980.BOOK, Fuller, Amy Elisabeth, Doyle, John 1957–, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors,weblink 259, 2008, Gale (publisher), Gale, 978-1-4144-3280-9, 507351876, 0010-7468, (iarchive:contemporaryauth0259unse/page/121/mode/1up, 121–122), WEB,weblink John Doyle, The Globe and Mail, 25 June 2020,

Career

Doyle was first hired by The Globe and Mail to write for Broadcast Week, the paper's weekly television listings, as a columnist. In 2000, he was appointed the newspaper's daily television critic. Doyle also covers soccer for the paper. His writing on soccer has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, the ECW Press anthology Best Canadian Sports Writing, and the soccer magazine Eight by Eight.{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}In 2005, Doyle published his first book, the memoir A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age about his early life in deeply conservative rural Ireland, and the book The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness, and Meaning of Soccer. Doyle has covered multiple FIFA World Cup, Euro tournaments, and the FIFA Women's World Cup.In 2004 he was involved in a public disagreement with Bill O'Reilly, then of Fox News. O'Reilly complained about Doyle's writing on his TV show.WEB,weblink Word for Word/Border Bickering; When a Canadian Insults Fox News, Them's [Expletive] Fighting Words!, Clifford, Krauss, 25 April 2004, New York Times, 25 June 2020, An article he published in 2010 argued that the Giller Prize and Gemini Awards were elitist.WEB, Grainger, Lia, 2010-11-16, Is Canada's high-low culture war a figment of John Doyle's imagination?,weblink 2021-11-03, Toronto Life, en-US, In a 2017 review of The Great Canadian Baking Show, Doyle called Dan Levy "(wikt:fey|fey)".WEB, Martin, Russ, 2017-11-10, The Globe and Mail Responds to Backlash Re: John Doyle Calling Dan Levy 'Fey',weblink 2021-11-03, Flare (magazine), Flare, 4 November 2021,weblink dead, Levy, and a CBC critic, argued that Doyle's use of the term was homophobic.NEWS, Thompson, Ryan E., 2017-11-03, Why Dan Levy's shutdown of a TV critic's homophobic insult is necessary and good for us all, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,weblink 2021-11-03,

Bibliography

• {{multiple image| image1 = GRTFEAST9780307373311.jpg| width1 = 285| caption1 = Cover of the Canadian and US editions of A Great Feast of Light| image2 = USTWIABCover41Ma-PEvpSL. SX324 BO1,204,203,200.jpg| width2 = 326| caption2 = Cover of the US edition of The World is a Ball| total_width = 300| height1 = 450| height2 = 499

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• WEB, Donaldson, Emily, 2006-01-12, A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age,weblink 2021-11-03, Quill and Quire, en,
• WEB, A Great Feast of Light,weblink 2021-11-03, Kirkus Reviews,
• BOOK

• NEWS, Bell, Douglas, 2010-05-14, Review: The World is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer, by John Doyle, en-CA, The Globe and Mail,weblink 2021-11-03,
• WEB, Massey, Benjamin, 2010-07-21, A Book Review: The World is a Ball, John Doyle,weblink 2021-11-03, Eighty Six Forever, en,
• WEB, Leonard, David, 2010-06-09, The World Is a Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer,weblink 2021-11-03, Quill and Quire, en,
• JOURNAL, Shiner, Roger A., 2011-02-01, John Doyle: The World Is A Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer,weblink Philosophy in Review, English, 31, 1, 19–22, {{Gale, A382085214, }}

See also

• List of newspaper columnists

References

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External links

• weblink" title="archive.today/20071027105612weblink">Author page at Random House of Canada
• Audio interview re: A Great Feast of Light: June 2007
• Columns at The Globe and Mail

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