My father, he was Orange and me mother, she was Green. Oh, it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen. So goes the song.
Billy Boy lives this dilemma, caught between the Orange and the Green in "The most Catholic town in Scotland" where fights break out between the sects, especially when the men have been paid at the pit or the foundry. BILLY BOY is set in Whifflet, an industrial village in the Scottish Lowlands, near Glasgow. In 1865, a young Irish Catholic woman gives birth to Billy in the Old Monkland Poorhouse. Before she dies, she tells the priest that her son's father is the...
My father, he was Orange and me mother, she was Green. Oh, it is the biggest mix-up that you have ever seen. So goes the song.
Lumpy Porridge and other Scottish Memories by Joyce Milne D'Auria is a wee book of stories, anecdotes, jokes, recipes and memories of an expatriate from Coatbridge, Scotland living in Florida. It is packed with smiles and poignancy and gaily decked out with some kilties on the cover. You will find inside some memories you may recognize, amusing tales of dealing with life in these Yoonided states and trips back to the homeland. And there's more, including "Aunt Nan's Secret Shortbread Recipe," "Colin's Mince and Tattie's," more of the popular series "Tales My Grandfather Told Me," and...
Lumpy Porridge and other Scottish Memories by Joyce Milne D'Auria is a wee book of stories, anecdotes, jokes, recipes and memories of an expatriate fr...
