Galloway Street - Softcover

Boyle, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385602316 ISBN 13: 9780385602310

Verlag: Doubleday, 2001

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Long since demolished, Number 4 Galloway Street in Paisley was the room and kitchen on the top landing of the dilapidated tenement where in 1941 John Boyle was born. Originally from the remote island of Achill, off the west coast of Ireland, his parents were among the many impoverished rural labourers who in the thirties and forties flocked to Scotland for the potato harvest. John's father was barely literate, and when his mother became pregnant the couple took the tiny flat and settled into life in the small Catholic community in the predominantly Protestant west of Scotland town.

Galloway Street beautifully captures both the harshness of poverty and the warm good humour of the family's life in the enclosed community where they lived. The first of six children, wee John grew up sleeping four to a bed, dressed in cast-offs and making what he could of a Catholic education in a town where religious bigotry was a way of life. But he was also surrounded by the stories, songs and laughter of the place his parents still called home. It was only at the age of ten, when he was sent to Ireland for the first time to spend the summer in Achill with his unmarried aunt, that he had an experience by which he would define himself for the rest of his life.

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ok about exile and belonging – a truthful, funny and moving evocation of a unique place and time, experienced through the eyes of a child.

John Boyle was born and raised in Scotland but he never felt Scottish. His parents were immigrants from the west of Ireland who came to Scotland to find work, and eventually settled in Paisley where John was the first of six children. Galloway Street beautifully captures the poverty and the rough humour of the Boyle family’s life in the Paisley tenements, the songs and stories of their Irish Catholic relatives and the often uneasy relationships with their Scottish Protestant neighbours. He also reveals how a trip at the age of ten to visit an aunt on the remote island of Achill was his first introduction to the life his parents left behind.

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385602316
• ISBN 13: 9780385602310
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240