Irvine Welsh

...with the Press Association site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has urged politicians to tackle Scotland's "cheap bevvy" culture. The author called for action to...

In this article: Scotland, Wine and Spirit Trade Association, and Trainspotting

Minimum alcohol pricing backed by author Irvine Welsh Mr Welsh says the price and availability of alcohol is causing problems Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has urged politicians to tackle Scotland's "cheap bevvy" culture. The...

In this article: Scotland, Trainspotting, Democracy, Over-consumption, Heroin, Wine and Spirit Trade Association, Ewan McGregor, and Nicola Sturgeon

...with the site. Published Date: 22 November 2009 By David Leask HE DEFINED Scotland's generation of 1980s drugs excess. Now Irvine Welsh has set his sights on perhaps the nation's most widely available drug a cheap booze. The...

In this article: Ecstasy, Over-consumption, Heroin, Trainspotting, and Scotland

...theatrical outing at the Players Theatre, as the stage adaptation of Trainspotting opens tonight Off-Broadway. The show, adapted from Irvine Welsh's novel as well as the play (which was previously produced in Glasgow in 1994), will run for 17...

In this article: Lionel Barrymore, Aaron Sorkin, Lynn Fontanne, Roundabout Theatre Company, Li'l Abner, Vagina Monologues, The Glass Menagerie, Michael Kidd, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Mourning Becomes Electra

...sceptics when that claim was voiced by Riordan who, at times, partook of a lifestyle more like that of a character in one of Irvine Welsh's lurid portrayals of life in Leith than a professional footballer at Easter Road - his remarkable...

In this article: Derek Riordan, Scotland, George Burley, Celtic, Hibs, Wales, Dog, Edinburgh, and Boxer

...it not only inspired me to read Palahniuk's other work, but got me excited about reading in general. I am now an avid reader, and consider Irvine Welsh, Margaret Atwood, Alex Garland, Cormac McCarthy, Dave Eggers among the many authors I came...

In this article: Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Department of Education, Alex Garland, and Margaret Atwood

...Doyle, Neil Jordan, Colm Toibin, Eugene McCabe, Dermot Bolger, Eoin Colfer, Maeve Binchy, John Connolly, Kevin Barrry, John Boyne and Irvine Welsh. The book is dedicated to the late Limerick writer Frank McCourt, who also contributed to the...

In this article: Roddy Doyle, Frank McCourt, Anne Enright, Seamus Heaney, UN, Ireland, Amnesty International, Eoin Colfer, and John Boyne

...mischief. "It's not difficult to make the case that John Irving is the greatest American novelist of his generation," Irvine Welsh wrote recently. And beyond the simple fact that this is another great read, Irving is also,...

In this article: John Irving, The World According to Garp, and Coos County

The actor is best known for his portrayal of the sociopathic Frank Begbie in the 1996 film Trainspotting, based on the book by Irvine Welsh. The Full Monty, the Oscar and Bafta-winning film in which Carlyle played an unemployed Sheffield...

In this article: Robert Carlyle, The Full Monty, Tax, London, Trainspotting, Oscar, Universal Studios, Stargate Universe, and Hugh Grant

...Rees, Wales On Sunday HAPPY Mondays star Shaun Ryder has signed up to star alongside Glen Matlock from the Sex Pistols in a Welsh comedy series gaining cult internet status. The rock pair are about to start filming for an episode of...

In this article: Glen Matlock, Svengali, Sex Pistols, ITV, Dean Cavanagh, YouTube, and Sally Phillips