27th September 1958

Author Irvine Welsh is born

Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh and found immediate success with the 1993 publication of his first novel, Trainspotting. Within three years it had been made into a film with Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle in lead roles.

 

 

Other events that occured in September

  • 01

    Taggart arrives on British screens
    Taggart was originally written as a three-part miniseries but it became one of British television's longest running drama series of all time.

  • 02

    Bicycle pedal inventor is born
    Dumfries and Galloway-born Kirkpatrick Macmillan is credited with inventing the pedal cycle and changed transport forever.

  • 03

    New York Herald founder is born
    James Gordon Bennett Sr was born in Banffshire and initially trained to become a priest but moved to the US and founded the New York Herald.

  • 04

    Egyptologist James Burton is bron
    Scottish explorer James Burton was the first man of the modern day to enter the largest tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.

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