A real peoples history

INTRODUCTION
Farquhar McLay

ANNE MULLEN
For Whom It May Concern
JANETTE SHEPHARD
Two Stories
Where I Came From
Christmas Party
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND
fae A Clydeside Lad
BRENDAN McLAUGHLIN
Life's A Bowl o' Cherries
ADAM McNAUGHTON
The Glasgow I Used to Know
JIM McLEAN
Farewell to Glasgow
ALEXANDER RODGER (1784-1846)
Sawney, Now the King's Come
JOHN TAYLOR CALDWELL
The Battle for the Green
SANDY HOBBS
Clyde Apprentices' Strikes
RUTHERGLEN DRAMA GROUP
Caterpillar Talking Blues
FREDDY ANDERSON
The Orra Man
PHIL McPHEE
Hutchie E. A Monument to Corruption,
Stupidity and Bad Planning
JOHN McGARRIGLE
Refuge
Write Nice Things
JAMES McFARLAN (1832-1862)
The Rhymer
PETER ARNOTT & PETER MULLAN
Beechgrove Garden Festival
LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON (1901-1935)
Glasgow
FARQUHAR McLAY
Three Poems
Toast o' the Mongers' Man
Langmuir an Algie Earns
Glasgow Smiles
ETHEL MacDONALD (1909-1960)
The Volunteer Ban
ROBERT LYNN
Not a life, Just a Leaf from it
R.D.LAING
from Wisdom, Madness and Folly
ALEX CATHCART
Nostalgically Speaking, Imagination is Money
DOMINIC BEHAN
Call Me Comrade
Babylon
THURSO BERWICK (1919-1981)
Glasgow Eskimoes
IAN McKECHNIE
The Balloon Goes Up
JEFF TORRINGTON
Singing No, No, Yuppie, Yuppie - NO!
JACK WITHERS
Four Poems: Glasgow Winter - GIesga -
Dear Grey City - Somewhere Between St.
George's Cross and Hillhead Subway
JANETTE McGINN
Gizza Hoose
FARQUHAR McLAY
Pillayboys
IAIN NICOLSON
Ihe Labour Provost
MATT McGINN (1928-1977)
A'for the Sake o' a Pub Licence
J.N. REILLY
from Triptych
JAMES D. YOUNG
Culture and Socialism
HAMISH HENDERSON
Jimmy Tyrie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANNE MULLEN

To Whom It May Concern
I read about it in the papers, I'm seeing it
on the news. COME TO GLASGOW THE CULTURE CITY.
.... It's giving me the blues.

COME TO GLASGOW'S GARDEN FESTIVAL. Only one
week's buroo money. We could live off the smell
of flowers. While they reap all the money.

ENTERTAINMENT CITY. To the exclusive few.
40 grand houses, a shopping mall, an opera
house or two. ENTERTAINMENT CITY .......
For who?

William needs new shoes, the window's needing
fixed, the roof is letting in water and the
settee's needing stitched.

Can you read between the lines. Have you ever
really tried.... Don't you really want to know
what it is they're trying to hide.


From:
Workers City "The Real Glasgow Stands Up"
Edited By Farquar McLay Clydeside Press

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