John Boyle
Praise for Galloway Street
'Compels complete attention because everything here, down to the last full stop, has been carefully considered...a precise and deeply moving evocation of the vanished Irish immigrant world that once flourished in Sc ...
Irish Times
'An affecting account...Boyle refreshes the familiar material with an engagingly plain, colloquial style...valuable as a historic record, but this eventually seems incidental to its value as a recollection of a fair ...
The Times Literary Supplement
'Full of humour in the midst of grinding poverty'
The Scotsman
'Compels complete attention because everything here, down to the last full stop, has been carefully considered...a precise and deeply moving evocation of the vanished Irish immigrant world that once flourished in Sc ...
Irish Times
'An affecting account...Boyle refreshes the familiar material with an engagingly plain, colloquial style...valuable as a historic record, but this eventually seems incidental to its value as a recollection of a fair ...
The Times Literary Supplement
'Full of humour in the midst of grinding poverty'
The Scotsman
'Compels complete attention because everything here, down to the last full stop, has been carefully considered...a precise and deeply moving evocation of the vanished Irish immigrant world that once flourished in Sc ...
Irish Times
'An affecting account...Boyle refreshes the familiar material with an engagingly plain, colloquial style...valuable as a historic record, but this eventually seems incidental to its value as a recollection of a fair ...
The Times Literary Supplement
'Full of humour in the midst of grinding poverty'
The Scotsman