For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for IMetro Eireann/I, a magazine 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 todays Ireland. The stories range from -~Guess Whos 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 charges older sisters and decides - in a phrase she has learnt - to -~scare them shitless. Most of the stories are very funny - in -~57% Irish Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keanes goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, IRiverdance/I and -~Danny Boy - others deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself,Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides its time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie.