Maryhill Article – archived comments
Comments Hi am trying to trace relatives of Joseph Patrick Mc Ivor who lived in Callander street Maryhill in the 1930s he was a private in the 1st Battalion Highland light Infantry from 1932 hope someone knows him. Many thanks Pat Patricia Faulds | Sun Aug 17 2014 Modify comment | Delete comment hi […]
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Thursday, April 30, 2015 | Filed under: Writing
Unlocking Maryhill – A history of its places and people by I.R. Mitchell
Glasgow’s Venice If the Dear Green Place has a Venice then it has to be Maryhill. Such a designation will surprise the hordes of commuters from Milngavie who rush the three miles down Maryhill Road to Central Glasgow each day, leaving nothing behind but the pollution from their cars for the local weans to inhale. […]
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Two Cities – a poem by Leela Soma
Buffalo NY and Glasgow, so much in common. Tartan & Turmeric Two cities The two could be twinned, history so familiar Niagara River, and Erie Canal made this city As grain silos rose up in the sky, men worked hard To get the grain ashore, milled and built steel. The city of light, the Niagara […]
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Poetry, stories and poems
Bernard MacLaverty – Award Winning Writer
by Pat Byrne, 2003 Bernard’s new book ‘Matters of Life and Death’ is doing very well. This collection of short stories has been applauded by Anne Enright in her review on Guardian Unlimited. Matters of Life and Death – can be purchased at Amazon. (Spring 2006). Bernard MacLaverty: Glasgow Writers – Pat Byrne, February 2015. […]
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Thursday, February 12, 2015 | Filed under: writers
Glasgow Writer: Kathleen O’Rourke
Kathleen O’Rourke. A Well-Beloved Star (Linda Jackson) The last two years brought a very special woman into my life. She was Kathleen O’Rourke: a poet, teacher and an inspiration to those who met her. Kathleen died suddenly on Jan 12th and is, and will be, a huge loss to those who knew her. She worked […]
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 | Filed under: writers
Things I`ve Learned In France, Stuart Paterson
There are no taxis in Fontainebleau You gather a group of pals for a good night out in a local, buzzing tourist hotspot. Some pizza cooked in front you by a handlebar-moustachioed Italian lunatic, followed by a couple of top gigs (Cyrille Aimee & Les Doigts de l’Homme, since you asked) at a beautiful old […]
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Monday, December 29, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Poetry, Stuart Paterson: Writer's Blog
Ayah a poem by Leela Soma
Ayah My child eye watches,Ayah’s Rangoli patterns bright, on the newly washed verandaThe dots threaded together like pearls of life’s experienceCultural traditions handed down in perfect symmetryThe opalescent sky shimmers anewA visual joy starts the day. My child ear hears,Her quiet, broken piece by pieceThe coffee machine, grinds beans, the aroma rich.Golden sun beats down noon […]
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Monday, December 8, 2014 | Filed under: Christmas Poems , Stories and Winter Tales, Poetry, stories and poems, Winter 2014
Stuart Paterson, blogging from Grez sur Loing: Science fiction poetry
Techni-quarks – what are they? Where did they come from? Where are they going? Do they even exist? Is the God Particle aware of them? The answers to all of these questions can be found below by my guest blogger Techni-Quark Googolplex 23b56x000. Unfortunately, since it`s a techni-quark, which can exist at any given point […]
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Saturday, November 22, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry, Stuart Paterson: Writer's Blog
Stuart Paterson, blogging from Grez sur Loing: Tuned In.
Without wishing to sound like a Big Brother House inhabitant, I`ve been living at Hotel Chevillon for nigh on 3 weeks now. 3 weeks ago this coming Saturday, just after midday, I fell out of the Paris-Montargis train at Bouronne-Marlotte, completely unaware of what to expect, still a bit groggy from 3 days […]
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Thursday, November 20, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry, Stuart Paterson: Writer's Blog, Travel
Happy birthday Mr. Stevenson
On this day in 1850, one Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born into the noted Stevenson family, at 8 Howard Street, Edinburgh. Engineering & design was very much the Stevenson game & it`s easy to imagine young Smout (or `Runt`as he was known at a young age due to his lack of size) being lost […]
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Thursday, November 13, 2014 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Stuart Paterson: Writer's Blog
It all began late last year – Stuart Paterson blogging from Grez sur Loing
It all began late last year when another poet told me about the Fellowship. I`d spent the previous year on an extremely voluntary sabbatical, which involved moving back to Galloway after 14 years working in Manchester, 13 of them in children/families outreach and residential care. But it wasn`t all Grimsville. I met the love of […]
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 | Filed under: Stuart Paterson: Writer's Blog
Glasgow Writer: Chris Agee
Chris Agee is an American poet, essayist and editor, who is currently the Keith Wright Literary Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In this capacity he teaches classes, although this not not something that his predecessors have traditionally done, and runs workshops with students. I first became aware of Chris through the very […]
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014 | Filed under: writers
Scenes from Highland Life: Jane-Sharon Regent. Parts nine – twelve
Nine. Three days since the referendum I’m in a car hurtling towards a farmhouse in the darkness. The first Women for independence Highland meeting since the vote, and the kitchen is packed, standing room only, almost out of cups for tea, and everyone’s talking at once, louder and louder and louder. One woman says, maybe […]
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Friday, October 17, 2014 | Filed under: Scenes from Highland Life, The Referendum and Scottish Politics
Mary Irvine: Post Referendum Musings
Writing: Scottish Politics – The Referendum I am grateful that I was born into and have lived in, for most of my life, a democracy. I believe I have an obligation to exercise my right to vote. People fought, suffered and died for that right. The least I can do is turn up at a […]
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | Filed under: Mary Irvine: Writer and Philhellene, The Referendum and Scottish Politics
Fiona Alderman blogging from rural France: The Referendum Result
My Tuppenceworth For What It’s Worth As an ex- pat I was fascinated by the Referendum and anxious to see what would happen. I was not allowed to vote and that is a different issue I suppose, but now that the deal has been done I wonder whether we should have been able to? I […]
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Sunday, October 12, 2014 | Filed under: The Referendum and Scottish Politics
Scenes from Highland life, part two – part eight: Jane-Sharon Regent
Scenes from Highland life, part two The sun is low over the horizon, and my friend, now in his late 60s, leans on the bonnet of the car he’s fixing up. I don’t see why we shouldn’t run our own country, he says, I don’t see why not. His daughter, he says, is ‘mad for […]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014 | Filed under: Scenes from Highland Life, The Referendum and Scottish Politics
Scenes from Highland life, part one: Jane-Sharon Regent
Scenes from Highland life, part one I was talking to the man who runs the fish van, he’s a former soldier. He knows a lot of serving soldiers and they’re all voting YES, because they don’t want drawn into wars in Iraq and Afghanistan anymore, they’ve had enough of British adventurism. His friends in recruitment […]
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Saturday, October 4, 2014 | Filed under: Scenes from Highland Life, The Referendum and Scottish Politics
Nationalism? I say it’s a new breed and it’s bonny – Pauline Lynch
Like every other Yes voter I know, I was heartbroken by our failure to win enough people to our side. Like every other Yes voter I know, I did not anticipate feeling this way. I’d gone to bed in the wee sma’ hours of the 19th with a very bad feeling, having seen the first […]
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Thursday, October 2, 2014 | Filed under: The Referendum and Scottish Politics
Scots and British? Still Shifnal’s Son! – James Christie
James Christie’s thoughts on the Scottish Referendum Scots and British? Still Shifnal’s Son! I sent myself and Mum down to a town called Shifnal in Shropshire’s east a week last Wednesday or so. The purpose, publicly, to talk of my book in the local library of the town where I grew up. Privately, it was […]
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Glasgow Writers: Donal McLaughlin
Featured in Best European Fiction 2012 (Dalkey Archive) as both an author and a translator, DONAL McLAUGHLIN was born in Ireland, but moved to Scotland in 1970. The author of two short story collections – an allergic reaction to national anthems (2009) and beheading the virgin mary & other stories (2014) – Donal is a […]
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Monday, August 18, 2014 | Filed under: writers
Rotten English Podcast 3 – Agnes Owens
Allan Wilson and Peter McNally: discussing writers and writing Rotten English Podcast 3 – Agnes Owens [powerpress]
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 | Filed under: Rotten English Podcast
Tags: Agnes Owens, Andrew O'Hagan, Literature, Podcast, poetry, Rotten English, writing
Ars Technica, A Short Story by Paul McQuade
Ars Technica The knife cuts in, wickedly. Splinters crest in spiked knots. The knife digs deeper. For a purpose. For a promise. Joshua keeps his promises. His hands glisten with sap. There is sweat on his brow and a streak of cracking blood on his cheek. He drives the blade deeper into the wood. […]
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Saturday, July 12, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers
Glasgow Writer: Chris Agee
Chris Agee is an American poet, essayist and editor, who is currently the Keith Wright Literary Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. In this role he teaches classes, although this not not something that his predecessors have traditionally done, and runs workshops with students. I first became aware of Chris through the very […]
Glasgow Writers: Paul McQuade
Paul McQuade was born in Glasgow but has subsequently found himself moving from Edinburgh to Tokyo to upstate New York, where he is currently working. Mostly on a way out of upstate New York. His work is available online and in print, most recently in Numéro Cinq, Gutter, and is forthcoming in Pank Magazine. He […]
Andrew O’Hagan – Rotten English 2 – Podcast
In this episode Rotten English discusses the language and work of novelist Andrew O’Hagan. Peter and Allan look at aspects of style as well as content in Andrew O’Hagan’s first two novels. This is followed by a discussion of his non-fiction work. (Includes a few expletives) [powerpress]
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Saturday, May 31, 2014 | Filed under: Rotten English Podcast
Memoirs: An Old Photograph by Mary Irvine
An Old Photograph Granddad Holland, Albert Henry, was married three times and was something of a Lothario by all accounts. Of course I only knew him as a kindly old granddad! He had several children by his first wife, Martha. My mother, Mary, was the youngest. Martha died from cancer when Mary was just into […]
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Monday, April 14, 2014 | Filed under: Love Poems, Stories and Tales from Glasgow writers, Writing
Glasgow Writers: John Dingwall
John Dingwall is one of Scotland’s top music and entertainment writers. He currently writes for the Daily Record and Scottish Sunday Mail. In this line of work he has travelled the world to interview some of the biggest names in showbiz – Annie Lennox in Malawi, Sir Paul McCartney in Mexico, Lindsay Lohan in Singapore, […]
A Poem for Spring: Chaos by Helen Frudd
Chaos What if I prefer the idea of being here without a god that the right conditions met in the dark and went bang and no deity but pure chance created me and everything else. Call it science, luck or magic the point is with no design or plan all this […]
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Glasgow Writers: Frankie Gault
(I’ve signed up for another of Alan McMunigall’s Creative Writing Courses and looking forward to starting back next week on 14th January, 2014. I first heard about these courses from Brian Hamill, when I interviewed him for inclusion on my Glasgow Writers Project. Then I was further encouraged to go along by Gillian Mayes, my […]
Allan Wilson and Peter McNally discuss Tom Leonard – Rotten English 1 (Podcast)
Allan Wilson and Peter McNally discussing the poems and influence of Glasgow born poet Tom Leonard. We read a selection of Tom’s poems and explain why we like each one
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 | Filed under: Rotten English Podcast
Tags: Literature, Outsiders, Podcast, Tom Leonard
