John Boyle was born and raised in Scotland but he could never feel Scottish. His parents were poor immigrants from the West of Ireland who came to Scotland to find work and eventually settled in Paisley, where John was the first of six children. Galloway Street beautifully captures the poverty and the rough humour of the family's life in the Paisley tenements, the songs and stories of their Irish Catholic relatives and the often uneasy relationships with their Scottish Protestant neighbours. It also shows how the boy is marked at the age of ten by an extended stay with his spinster aunt on the remote island of Achill, as he begins to understand the life his parents left behind. This is a book about exile and belonging, about the poignancy of growing up Irish in Scotland, so close to the place your mother still calls home. It is a truthful, funny and moving evocation of a unique place and time, experienced through the eyes of a child. John Boyle left Scotland at nineteen and has lived most of his adult life abroad. He taught English in Spain and London, managed language schools in Belgium and Holland, then set up a communications consultancy in Brussels. Now a writer and columnist, he still does commercial voiceovers in Brussels, New York and London.


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John W. Boyle September 1, — September 28, , also credited as John Boyle , was an American cinematographer whose career spanned from the silent era through the s. Over his career he would photograph more than films, including features, shorts and documentaries. He would also work on several British films over the course of his career. Boyle was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 1, In he photographed the silent classic, Cleopatra , starring Theda Bara.
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Boyle struck Noreen in the head, then suffocated her by putting a plastic bag over her head. Authorities obtained search warrants partly on the word of their children, the News Journal reported earlier. Authorities recovered Noreen's body on Jan. Noreen Boyle filed for divorce in November after 22 years of marriage, charging extreme mental cruelty and gross neglect. The couple had a year-old son, Collier, who was a key witness for the prosecution, and an adopted daughter, 3-year-old Elizabeth. Boyle, 76, filed five motions on Sept. Boyle said on the telephone blog that for whatever reason, at a. He said after further investigation by his friend Robert Norris in reviewing those motions, he realized they were contrary to law and operations of law. Boyle said he was sentenced to 20 years to life for the aggravated murder on July 2,