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One thing I need to get across right now: this is all true. Trust me when I say I wish it wasnt true... but it is. This is what I have had to deal with my whole life. Everyone thinks they know me, but they don't. Well... It official. I put on a brave face and did it. This book is now visible to... EVERYONE. Yes, it was a VERY hard decision... but also one that could help others.
Keane was editor of the Glasgow Free Press from 1862. He and his deputy Peter McCorry turned the first Scottish Catholic newspaper into a campaigning sheet, setting the Irish priests against the Scottish priests, and in particular the vicars-apostolic. The paper supported the nationalist Patrick Lavelle,[4] who used its pages to attack Paul Cullen.[5] John Murdoch, the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District was another particular target, the background being the increasing number of Irish Catholic priests in Scotland, and an increasing Irish immigrant population.[6] Keane and McCorry found themselves in court proceedings.[7]
A truly panoramic book consisting of five books of overt or subtle autobiographical origin, featuring culture, history, art, verse, despair, addiction, humour, redemption, faith, love and so much more besides; a truly incredible experience, chockful of fascinating facts and tales; and all with a Christian basis. But that’s not to say “Where the Halling Valley River Lies” has attained its definitive state, because by its very nature, it can be added to ad infinitum. So that it remain perpetually fluid and perpetually inchoate. And in perpetual evolution.