BOLD TARTAN OF ULSTER

by Seamus Glas

Overview

A sixteen-year-old tormented Belfast youth finds temporary solace escaping the home

violence only to find violence outside it.

Glasgo, tired of a disenfranchised home, seek the company of his friends in an east Belfast riot

at the time of looming civil war between the protestant loyalists and Irish republicanism. With

naivety and boundless energy he goes off to have what most youths from the Irish divisions in

the seventies wanted, risk and devil may care attitude skirting the perimeter of the powerful

paramilitaries/vigilantes. But soon our trio is banged-up [imprisoned] when they find not all things are kosher with some disguised antagonists.

Character Profile.

Glasgo is a sixteen-year-old typical male youth. He is not enjoying life at home. Parents are

not in touch with their children's emotional or psychological requirements. This bares out on

their attitude to them and increasingly makes Glasgo yearn for a sense of belonging and then

excitement. He is lanky and feeling inadequate as a young male who wishes he had the

the physique of some of his new peers. So, could it be, his parents are less inclined to love a son born to another woman. A Catholic woman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538093511
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	08/25/2018
Series:	The Bold Tartan , #1
Edition description:	Irish Historical Look at the Nineties ed.
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

Seamus Glas, a Scot Irish, a citizen of Northern Ireland, United Kingdom was born to an English mother and a Scot Irish father in 1956 in Belfast City hospital. As a Presbyterian protestant, he remembers the commencement of the Ulster troubles with firsthand experience. He grew up east of the capital, Belfast, at a village called Dundonald; Co. Down, in which he claims, is the most panoramic county of Ulster. He fondly remembers the bold characters that shaped his reality then and formed his outlook today. He is one of three boys, and claims this is largely due to his parents, whom he says, kept this part a secret. Today when back in the province, he writes when he can about his experiences and particularly his focus on the loyalist protestant cause when it commenced with honorable motives in light of imminent civil war. He attended the Boy’s High School Dundonald.

As a mature student, he embarked on a three-year language course at the Luton/London University, England, majoring in German. He is fluent in four European languages.
Today, he resides in the state of Arizona for most of the time returning to Europe to be with his only real family, a feral tabby, which he calls Serial, for obvious reasons. The green has a realigning effect on his disposition, whilst the arid dusty canyons of Arizona are his alternative fulfillment of another life possibly as a native American he has possessed since he was a young boy. Today he plans to embark on a part-time English language program teaching Native Americans on the reservation. He does not kill his food normally; though he enjoys fishing and accompanies the odd elk hunt with his friends. He enjoys the lonely life of exploring canyon treasures, amid the pumas and wild boars that come past his campsite from time to time. No children that he knows of, though they're still maybe the possibility of learning his parents secret.
S.G

Editorial Reviews

This is a great insight into reality and not one of the flakey accounts that are more of the Irish Balerney genre. This writer takes you into the real world of an orange protestant group and one feels the writer tells it verbatim. The vehicular is learning and rarely reflected from other POVs. This is not cheating the reader and if it's a real journey into knowledge and learning of this world, then you are about to take that journey. Please don't read if you want a sugar-coated read.

Reader - James Gray