THE latest book by regular contributor to The Irish Voice, Hugh Dougherty, tells of his time on the platform and in the driving cab of Western SMT buses as a Glasgow University student from 1969 to 1972.

IRISH Nurses: An Oral History is published by Four Courts Press (2025). It tells the unique stories of 45 Irish women who came to the UK to work as nurses for the NHS, and contains many meticulous stories of their experiences, from their training to the everyday stresses and strains, to the fun and craic they had outside of work.

THIS book, from the very beginning, points to a strong sense of collaborative in putting it together

AN EXCITING new addition to Irish culture in Scotland arrived in the form of a new children’s book written by Cathleen Armstrong

TEAM Ireland were kept busy supporting Irish artists and producers as the world’s largest festival took over the city of Edinburgh

IT'S beginning to feel autumnal—a time for soups and stews and turf burning fires that set your heart ablaze and bring heat to your kitchen

HUGH Dougherty, tells the story of Glasgow’s Silent Service, the city’s trolleybuses, in a new book