Archived comments for The Garngad: Heaven and Hell by Ian R. Mitchell
I was born in villar St Jan 1949 margaret cox | Fri Aug 15 2014 I was born in Villiers Street in 1949. My Grandparents lived in Turner Street. You have written a very interesting piece on the history of industry in Garngad, I have learned a lot from this. However, you have not given […]
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Monday, August 8, 2016 | Filed under: Ian Mitchell
The Garngad: Heaven and Hell by Ian R. Mitchell
A chapter from Ian R. Mitchell’s forthcoming book for Luath Press, called Orange, Green and Red; Class, Community and Conflict on Clydeside, whch takes things all the way from New Lanark to the Vale of Leven, with a few new Glasgow chapters as well. THE GARNGAD: Heaven and Hell. The splendid spire of Townhead and […]
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West Texas Highs; Be In Your Own Movie by Ian R. Mitchell
West Texas Highs; Be In Your Own Movie. The Country for Cold Men. The image of Texas widely held might not encourage the timorous traveller to head that-aways. Texas is usually viewed as a flat desolation roughly the size of France and Spain combined, full of, at best hard bitten rednecks, and at worst […]
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Sunday, July 17, 2016 | Filed under: Ian Mitchell
Glasgow Writer: James Connarty
James Connarty was born in Bellshill, grew up in Coatbridge and now lives in Wishaw. He would be telling lies if he said he was a Glasgow writer, although he has written in and about the city. James graduated from Strathclyde University with an honours degree in English Literature in the mid 90s and has […]
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 | Filed under: writers
Glasgow Writer: Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown works as a freelance copywriter and subtitler. She is a graduate of the Glasgow Uni Creative Writing MLitt. In 204, she was shortlisted for The Sceptre prize in 2014. Her work has been published in ‘From Glasgow To Saturn’, ‘Gutter Magazine’ – The Magazine of New Scottish Writing and on the website […]
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Monday, May 9, 2016 | Filed under: writers
Glasgow Writers: Stephen Watt, Poet
Stephen Watt – Scottish poet and spoken word artist Stephen Watt was born in Dumbarton in 1979, and is a Scottish poet and spoken word artist. He is the author of the poetry collection ‘Spit’, and was crowned the Poetry Rivals Slam Champion in Peterborough in 2011 after beating 8,000 entrants. Since then, Stephen’s online […]
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Monday, May 2, 2016 | Filed under: writers
Glasgow Writer: Micheal Norton
Micheal Norton is an Irish writer from a rural background in Tipperary. He lived and studied in Galway for ten years, initially at the Institute of Technology before undertaking a Masters in Script Writing at the National University of Ireland. For the past five years he has lived in Glasgow. He enjoys reading books by […]
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Glasgow Writers: Phil Murnin
Phillip Murnin is a fiction writer, who has gained numerous awards for his work. He studied M.Litt Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, where he won The Sceptre Prize for emerging writers. In 2014 he was awarded the Scottish Book Trust, New Writers’ Award 2014 and, in 2012, the Gillian Purvis Award for New […]
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Monday, April 25, 2016 | Filed under: Ten Writers Telling Lies, writers
The Carbeth Clearances
The Carbeth Clearances: An Item For The Land Reform Agenda. Ten miles north of Glasgow at Carbeth, over 100 tenants face eviction from their homes, or rather huts, they built at their own expense. For the best part of a century~ these huts, for which the tenants traditionally paid a fairly low ground rent, have […]
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | Filed under: Ian Mitchell
Phil Murnin: Glasgow Writer
Phillip Murnin is a fiction writer, who has gained numerous awards for his work. He studied M.Litt Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, where he won The Sceptre Prize for emerging writers. In 2014 he was awarded the Scottish Book Trust, New Wriiters’ Award 2014 and, in 2012, the Gillian Purvis Award for New […]
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Sunday, April 10, 2016 | Filed under: writers
Glasgow Writers: Gillian Margaret Mayes
Gillian Mayes started writing in diaries when she was eleven. A pursuit she abandoned when her children learned to read. As an academic, at the University of Glasgow, where she is now Honorary Research Fellow (School of Psychology & Neuroscience), she wrote many journal articles, reviews, research reports and co-authored a book, Child Sexual Abuse’. […]
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Sunday, March 27, 2016 | Filed under: Ten Writers Telling Lies, writers, Writing
Glasgow Writers: James Carson
It’s always a pleasure to read James Carson’s stories – a thoughtful communicator and great listener with an irreverent sense of humour, he has an abundance of gifts to bring to the task of story telling and, with his talent for mimicry, it’s also a joy to watch him perform. James demonstrates an enviable dedication […]
The Old Baths – Christina Byrne
Social History Essay on Clydebank by Christina Byrne Go for a swim these days and you’ll find yourself in something called a Leisure Centre. Swish and sophisticated it will have rooms with sprung dance floors and wall to wall mirrors for aerobic classes, a gym with lethal machines to trim, tone and torture, possibly a […]
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Sunday, January 3, 2016 | Filed under: Christina Byrne, Writing
First School by Christina Byrne
(The Clydebank Blitz, evacuation, coupons and going to primary school) We had been blitzed out of our house and evacuated to Airdrie. There we lived with a family of two adults and four children in a three-bedroomed house. Whilst some folk in our street went to live in large mansion-type houses, our hosts had a […]
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 | Filed under: Christina Byrne, Writing
Christina Byrne – 17th December, 1936 – 17th December, 2012
A beautiful song Jim wrote in memory of his mother: Promise That We’ll Meet Again It was a terrible shock to her friends and family when Christina Byrne, my mother-in-law, did not recover from a heart operation just before Christmas, 2012. Christina, or Rena as she was also known, will be very much missed. She […]
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Sunday, December 27, 2015 | Filed under: Christina Byrne
Glass Nylons and Woollen Combinations by Christina Byrne
Starting work in Clydebank in the 50’s ‘You can start on Monday and the wage is 29/6d. a week with 2/5d. off for National Insurance.’ It was 1951 and I had been offered my first job. I was to work in the Scotch Wool and Hosiery Stores in Glasgow Road, Clydebank. I started at nine […]
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Glasgow Writers: Chris Dolan
Chris will lead discussion at the event Ethel MacDonald: An Anarchist’s Story part of Havana Glasgow Film Festival at CCA on 17 Novbember, 2016. Book Launch: Lies of the Land, the second Maddy Prior novel, Glasgow Caledonian University, 1 June, 2016 at 6.30 p.m. Rebus – A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin. Adapted for […]
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
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
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
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Glasgow writer and poet: John McGarrigle (died in the Clutha Disaster, 29th November, 2013)
On 29th November, 2013, ten people lost their lives when a helicopter crashed into the roof of The Clutha Vaults, Stockwell Street, Glasgow. Among them was writer and poet, John McGarrigle, aged 59. (The other victims were Pilot David Traill, 51; Constables Tony Collins, 43 and Kirsty Nelis, 36; and customers Mark O’Prey, 44; Gary […]
Glasgow Writers: Allan Wilson
Allan Wilson is a busy and talented Glasgow writer; always working on short stories, novels and plays. His short story collection Wasted in Love raised quite a stir when it was published by Cargo in 2012, including being shortlisted for the Scottish Book of the Year in 2012. Apart from his own enthusiasm for writing, […]
Glasgow Writers: Elaine Reid
Elaine Reid is a Glaswegian writer and graduate of Glasgow University’s Creative Writing MFA programme. She is a previous winner of Strathclyde University’s prestigious Keith Wright Literary Prize and has been published in From Glasgow to Saturn, Valve Journal and Gutter Magazine. Elaine also writes monologues and has performed at Edinburgh International Book Festival. Currently […]
Glasgow Writers: John Hamilton May
Love in the Past Participle Edinburgh Festival Fringe Writer and Director John Hamilton May, originally from North Yorkshire, is a Glasgow-based writer and director. He has just completed studying his M.A. in Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow and, aged only 22, already he’s making quite a mark in the world of theatre. […]
Glasgow Writers
There is an impressive and vibrant literary scene in Glasgow with book launches, writers’ workshops, spoken word events and a variety other other bookish activities taking place every night of the week. I highlight these events on the site in my What’s On in Glasgow Books, Talks and Poetry Events, however, given the abundance of […]
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Friday, April 12, 2013 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, writers
