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Why is the following age given "Beth Quinn, 26" - is the editor going to return every year to update this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.149.79.218 ( talk • contribs) 08:15, 2 October 2006
are we sure about his birth date? yes, here the Observer tells us it's 27 September 1961, but it also told us that Welsh likes to cheat about his age. here the Independent says it's 1957, 1958 is given in many other places. High on a tree 12:05, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Is his website link down there at the bottom a broken link? I tried to get to his website and it didn't work. Someone might want to check it out to be sure. lll I don't know about the day and month (so I let them be), but the year of birth appears as 1958 (so I changed it) in 2 quite reliable sources: [2] and [3] Quatrocentu 07:18, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
The Glasgow police say his records show Welsh' birthdate to be some seven years earlier: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,772792,00.html Alcalaino 00:14, 30 July 2007 (CEST)
This is not related to the article per se, but I'd like to know who else have noticed this. In Trainspotting (the book, that is), Spud gets ripped off like the rest of the crew. Renton is feeling guilty about this. Spud also appears in a later short story, where he's described as never haven gotten over being ripped of by a friend. Then came the release of the film, and Spud suddenly doesn't get ripped off, probably to make the ending more digestable to the mainstream audience (I always tell people that the film is shite, mostly because of the too happy ending). I haven't read Porno, yet, but from what I can gather from the article about it, it follows the Trainspotting-film's version of events regarding Spud's share. If so, there's a clear inconsistency in the books and someone ought to point this out in the Porno article. -- Twisturbed Tachyon 13:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Porno and Glue are the only ones I've yet to read. I'm quite happy to have bought Trainspotting before the making of the film, thus avoiding the hideous film-poster cover. My copy might be dog-eared, but it's black and silver and has skeleton-people on the front cover, serving its content justice. Anyway, I just thought that the 'alternate ending' needed mentioning, and if someone doesn't mention it in the Trainspotting (film)-article in the near future, I'll probably get around to it at one point or another. Keep up the good work on Welsh. -- Twisturbed Tachyon 14:51, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I can't give the citation, but there is a play by the Roman playwright Plautus that has a parasite as a character. The dialog includes complaints about whoever divided the day into hours and the inventor of the sundial, because it made the parasite's day unnatural. If anyone's interested, I could find it eventually. DCDuring 04:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I've never heard of anyone attempting to thrash a community center before. Lucy1958 ( talk) 08:20, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
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I heard Irvine Welch interviewed on a radio program tonight, talking about how he's been residing in Chicago since February. If anyone has the details about this, it seems worth including in the article. Thanks. Lafong ( talk) 07:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
According to his official website (irvinewelsh.net) he lives in Chicago and Miami, not Dublin. — Preceding
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Do you find it normal that in the "biography" section, there is not a single sentence about the fact that he is a writer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.192.44.101 ( talk) 02:02, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
There's also a major inconsistency since his wife is named Beth Quinn, yet in this sentence in the biographical section her name is listed as Elizabeth: "On 20 April 2012, on BBC Breakfast, he advised he lives in Chicago with his wife, Elizabeth. Previously he lived in Dublin, Ireland" 72.78.234.202 ( talk) 08:56, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
"Welsh’s concerns are with sin and salvation, with the exercise of free will and with the individual soul. He’s much more interested in teleology than sociology."[14]
This quote can still be found on the FT-Webpage. I think it is wrong. Sin, salvation, exercise of free will, and the the individual soul, these terms belong to a theological sphere.
To my mind, the word teleology doesn´t make sense in this context. -- René Lysander ( talk) 10:14, 21 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by René Lysander ( talk • contribs) 14:26, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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In the Fiction section, it states:
His next book, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996), became his most high-profile work since Trainspotting, released in the wave of publicity surrounding the film.
What film? I assume it was Trainspotting, but clarification in the article would be helpful. 74.205.219.249 ( talk) 05:03, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
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Why is the following age given "Beth Quinn, 26" - is the editor going to return every year to update this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.149.79.218 ( talk • contribs) 08:15, 2 October 2006
are we sure about his birth date? yes, here the Observer tells us it's 27 September 1961, but it also told us that Welsh likes to cheat about his age. here the Independent says it's 1957, 1958 is given in many other places. High on a tree 12:05, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Is his website link down there at the bottom a broken link? I tried to get to his website and it didn't work. Someone might want to check it out to be sure. lll I don't know about the day and month (so I let them be), but the year of birth appears as 1958 (so I changed it) in 2 quite reliable sources: [2] and [3] Quatrocentu 07:18, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
The Glasgow police say his records show Welsh' birthdate to be some seven years earlier: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,772792,00.html Alcalaino 00:14, 30 July 2007 (CEST)
This is not related to the article per se, but I'd like to know who else have noticed this. In Trainspotting (the book, that is), Spud gets ripped off like the rest of the crew. Renton is feeling guilty about this. Spud also appears in a later short story, where he's described as never haven gotten over being ripped of by a friend. Then came the release of the film, and Spud suddenly doesn't get ripped off, probably to make the ending more digestable to the mainstream audience (I always tell people that the film is shite, mostly because of the too happy ending). I haven't read Porno, yet, but from what I can gather from the article about it, it follows the Trainspotting-film's version of events regarding Spud's share. If so, there's a clear inconsistency in the books and someone ought to point this out in the Porno article. -- Twisturbed Tachyon 13:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Porno and Glue are the only ones I've yet to read. I'm quite happy to have bought Trainspotting before the making of the film, thus avoiding the hideous film-poster cover. My copy might be dog-eared, but it's black and silver and has skeleton-people on the front cover, serving its content justice. Anyway, I just thought that the 'alternate ending' needed mentioning, and if someone doesn't mention it in the Trainspotting (film)-article in the near future, I'll probably get around to it at one point or another. Keep up the good work on Welsh. -- Twisturbed Tachyon 14:51, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I can't give the citation, but there is a play by the Roman playwright Plautus that has a parasite as a character. The dialog includes complaints about whoever divided the day into hours and the inventor of the sundial, because it made the parasite's day unnatural. If anyone's interested, I could find it eventually. DCDuring 04:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
I've never heard of anyone attempting to thrash a community center before. Lucy1958 ( talk) 08:20, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
References
I heard Irvine Welch interviewed on a radio program tonight, talking about how he's been residing in Chicago since February. If anyone has the details about this, it seems worth including in the article. Thanks. Lafong ( talk) 07:07, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
According to his official website (irvinewelsh.net) he lives in Chicago and Miami, not Dublin. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
88.127.116.52 (
talk) 20:02, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Do you find it normal that in the "biography" section, there is not a single sentence about the fact that he is a writer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.192.44.101 ( talk) 02:02, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
There's also a major inconsistency since his wife is named Beth Quinn, yet in this sentence in the biographical section her name is listed as Elizabeth: "On 20 April 2012, on BBC Breakfast, he advised he lives in Chicago with his wife, Elizabeth. Previously he lived in Dublin, Ireland" 72.78.234.202 ( talk) 08:56, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
"Welsh’s concerns are with sin and salvation, with the exercise of free will and with the individual soul. He’s much more interested in teleology than sociology."[14]
This quote can still be found on the FT-Webpage. I think it is wrong. Sin, salvation, exercise of free will, and the the individual soul, these terms belong to a theological sphere.
To my mind, the word teleology doesn´t make sense in this context. -- René Lysander ( talk) 10:14, 21 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by René Lysander ( talk • contribs) 14:26, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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In the Fiction section, it states:
His next book, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996), became his most high-profile work since Trainspotting, released in the wave of publicity surrounding the film.
What film? I assume it was Trainspotting, but clarification in the article would be helpful. 74.205.219.249 ( talk) 05:03, 1 June 2021 (UTC)