Mungo's City : A Glasgow Anthology

by Osborne, Brian D.; Armstrong, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9781841580258
• ISBN10: 1841580252
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

Rich, wide-ranging anthology celebrating the great diversity of the Glasgow experience from poets to politicians, from estates to slums.

Table of Contents

Foreword	1	(382)
City of Culture
Introduction	5	(3)
`The Old College' from Glimpses of Old Glasgow	8	(2)
Andrew Aird
`Early Theatre in Glasgow' from Glasgow and its Clubs	10	(8)
John Strang:
`Intellectual Life in Eighteenth-Century Glasgow' from Autobiography	18	(11)
Alexander Carlyle:
`Glasgow'	29	(2)
William McGonagall:
`Progress in Art' from Glimpses of Old Glasgow	31	(6)
Andrew Aird
`Architecture' from Glasgow in 1901	37	(7)
James Hamilton Muir
`The Adventures of a Country Customer' from Jimmey Swan, the Joy Traveller	44	(7)
Neil Munro:
The Bishop's Burgh
Introduction	51	(3)
Jocelinus of Furness: `The Life of St Kentigern'	54	(11)
`Glasgow's Cathedral' from A History of Glasgow	65	(5)
John Gibson
`Cathedral and College' from Glimpses of Old Glasgow	70	(5)
Andrew Aird
`Captured in Glasgow' from The Wallace	75	(1)
Blind Harry
`The Rhyme of Sir Launcelot Bogle'	76	(7)
W.E. Aytoun (William Edmondstoune)
`In the Laigh-Kirk' from Rob Roy	83	(12)
Walter Scott
The Merchant City
Introduction	95	(3)
`A City of Business' from A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain	98	(7)
Daniel Defoe
`The Tobacco Lords' from Glasgow and its Clubs	105	(5)
John Strang
`Highland Textile Workers'	110	(2)
George McIntosh
`Let Glasgow Flourish'	112	(1)
Andrew Park
`Manufactures and Industries' from Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland	113	(11)
Francis H. Groome
`The Warehouse' from The Staff at Simpson's	124	(15)
Frederick Niven
``Divus' Johnston' from The Runagates Club	139	(8)
John Buchan
The Clyde Made Glasgow
Introduction	147	(3)
`Steam Boats' from Annals of Glasgow	150	(3)
James Cleland
`Clyde Cruising' from The Steam-Boat	153	(8)
John Galt
`Lines on Revisiting a Scottish River'	161	(2)
Thomas Campbell
`Doon the Watter at the Fair'	163	(2)
Bass Kennedy
`Harbour Life' from The Clyde, River and Firth	165	(6)
Neil Munro
`Shipbuilding' from Glasgow in 1901	171	(10)
James Hamilton Muir
`Twin-Screw Set-1902'	181	(2)
William J.F. Hutcheson
`The Launch' from In Scotland and `The Board Room' from In Scotland Again	183	(5)
H.V. Morton
`A Ship is Launched' from The Shipbuilders	188	(11)
George Blake
Jock Tamson's Bairns
Introduction	199	(3)
`Norah and Sheila' from The Rat-Pit	202	(13)
Patrick MacGill
`A Welcome to the Waters of Loch Katrine'	215	(1)
James Nicholson
`The West End' from Aunt Bel	216	(8)
Guy McCrone
`Hullo, Glesca Hielanders!' from Courtin' Christina	224	(5)
J.J. Bell
Iain Crichton Smith: `The Building' from The Tenement	229	(5)
`Heaven Knows'	234	(1)
Janet Hamilton
`The Like of Them' from No Mean City	235	(11)
Alexander McArthur
H. Kingsley Long
`A New Life' from The Patriarch	246	(19)
Chaim Bermant
The Hampden Roar
Introduction	265	(4)
`Jimmy's Sins Find Him Out' from The Jimmy Swan Stories	269	(4)
Neil Munro
`The Old Firm' from The Shipbuilders	273	(10)
George Blake
`The Final' from The Thistle and the Grail	283	(18)
Robin Jenkins
`On Leave in Glasgow' from Officers and Gentlemen	301	(12)
Evelyn Waugh
`Kate Cranstonish' from The Brave Days	313	(4)
Neil Munro
The Revolutionary Moment
Introduction	317	(5)
`Revolution in the Air' from Montrose	322	(9)
John Buchan
`Bothwell Brig' from Old Mortality	331	(12)
Walter Scott
`The Deluge'	343	(3)
W.D. Cocker
`Andrew Amos' from Mr Standfast	346	(14)
John Buchan
Forward: `The Dilution of Labour-Mr Lloyd George in Glasgow'	360	(10)
`The River of Words' from Clyde Valley	370	(11)
Catherine Gavin
James Maxton	381	(2)
Tom Scott
Index of Authors	383