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Ah
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John
McBarron was born in 1928 into a family that
fared no better than others in the poverty-stricken East End of Glasgow.
As was the fate of many he failed to escape the scourge of the tenements,
tuberculosis, and was hospitalised in Mearnskirk sanatorium at the age of
three. After four years of cosseted treatment he emerged into the bleak
world that was the tenement culture of Bridgeton.
SADLY the Author John McBarron
DIED on 1st Jan 2015
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He grew up in the shadow of the Celtic Football
Club whose success in those early years helped to relieve the
stress of the pervasive poverty.
His parents, who had gleaned a living from street hawking from a barrow,
were now the owners of a small general store (the wee shop) just down the
road from Celtic Park.
This was the centre of his early life where he was exposed first-hand to
the pain of the community trying to make ends meet via the pawn
shop...............
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The book hit Glasgow high streets
in September 2004 and by December 2004 almost sold out!!!
A second edtion of 'Ah
B'lang tae Glasgow' is available and John's second
book
'Glasgow leave of absence'
is also now available, June 2008
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Ah belang tae Glasgow,
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relates the author's right of passage in Glasgow's East
End.
Emerging after 4 years of treatment in the years leading up to World-War
II, all of the gritty reality, violence, yet indefatigable humour that
is woven into the "Glesga" cultural fabric is portrayed
faithfully.
In the not too distant world that had no television and little radio,
"ra peepul" relied on their own self-made entertainment, the
occasional cinema trip but especially the weekly tribal battles know as
the 'fitba' and 'ra dancin''. Alternately moving and laugh-out-loud funny, the author perfectly
conveys the mood of the times and the character and spirit with which
every Scot can identify.
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Welcome tae GLESCAPALS John....June 2004

John McBarron
'Ah b'lang tae Glasgow' author
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GlescaPals webmaister :- "Well pals ah hiv met
John and he has a tale tae tell, wonderful
stories about an era long gone, never tae return, but brought back tae life
in this book. Glesga folk, pals wi' an appetite for reading aboot
hame wull luv it." |
John Paton, Perth, Australia,
Webmaister I received my signed copy of Ah b’lang tae glasgow only read
first chapter so far but you can tell it’s going to be good. Thanks for
putting me on to it………
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Josie, California, USA
...I am sending this from Coronado California in regards to Ah B,lang
tae Glasgow , it is a wonderful book and would ask all who like to read to
order this book ,it is so well written you feel as if it was you going
through all that happened in the author's life. I've just finished reading
it and I couldn't put it down it was such a great book
I was just wishing it would have gone on and let us know how the
rest of his life progressed so I hope he writes another book as a
continuation of this one, I do not know the writer so I am just giving my opinion
on it ..................... All The Best to my GlescaPals /////////// |
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