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Choose Irvine Welsh: new documentary explores the life of Scotland's 'urban Shakespeare'

By David H. Fleming, Senior Lecturer in Film & Media, University of Stirling
On August 23, Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh’s beloved Edinburgh football team, Hibs, went head-to-head with Aston Villa in the Europa League. But they were also competing for attention with the world premiere of Choose Irvine Welsh, a documentary by filmmaker Ian Jefferies about the life, writing and cultural impact of the man it dubs Scotland’s “urban Shakespeare”.

The latter was debuting at the Edinburgh…The Conversation


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