{"id":1671,"date":"2015-04-26T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2015-04-26T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T14:33:59","slug":"shaggers-guide-to-scotland-at-the-cuirt-lecture-meeting-irvine-welsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/shaggers-guide-to-scotland-at-the-cuirt-lecture-meeting-irvine-welsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaggers Guide to Scotland – at the C\u00fairt lecture meeting Irvine Welsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meeting Irvine Welsh at the book signing after his lecture at the Cuirt Festival here in Galway was quite an experience. I was and am a massive fan of Trainspotting, and though I never read his other works – which are all on a similar vein – when I heard he was in town I made it my business to attend the lecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What was I expecting? I don’t know. Not an articulate chap who you could sit and have a pint with anyway, but what appeared on the stage was just a normal guy, and quite a character to boot. <\/p>\n

He lamented that if Trainspotting was to come out today it would not be published, as today society seems to be a lot more conservative and he thinks books need more shagging and hedonism in them. This is a unique take on the current literary scene, escpecially in light of the publication of 50 Shades of Grey.<\/p>\n

I was at the lecture in the company of James Delaney who is doing the final cuts to the Rhymers Club documentary. Amont the audience was an old freind \/ nemesis of mine Kevin Higgins<\/a> and his good wife Susan Millar du Mars two rows beneath and to the left. We were in the Town Hall Theatre, and the gallery area was very cramped, but there was a great view of the stage.<\/p>\n

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Highlight of my week was meeting Irvine Welsh who wrote #trainspotting at the #cuirt festival in #galway<\/a><\/p>\n

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