The Gorbals Philosophy Club

Gorbals, Glasgow 1938 Stephen Daly sat quietly on the box bed which was set into the living room wall of the dingy tenement flat. He watched as his uncle Charlie and three of his friends manoeuvred the coffin into the small room and settled it rather gingerly onto the kitchen table which stood in the centre of the room. His mother had already placed a heavy curtain over the table to avoid it being scratched, and this gave it the air of a small altar...