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Ian Niall


Born
in Old Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
November 07, 1916

Died
June 24, 2002

Genre
Fiction, Country Life

Influences
Robert Burns, Émile Zola, John Steinbeck, Lewis Grassic Gibbon ...more


Ian Niall, born John Kincaid McNeillie, was a writer from Galloway in Scotland. He wrote his works under both names. He was born in Old Kilpatrick, to parents from the Machars in South West Scotland. He moved back to Galloway at eighteen months old, and the area formed a basis for his early fiction.

McNeillie wrote over forty books. These include No Resting Place (1948), a tale of Machars traveller folk, filmed in Co. Wicklow by Paul Rotha. His classic The Poacher’s Handbook (1950) also derives much from the Machars where McNeillie spent part of his early childhood, with his grandparents at North Clutag farm, as told in his memoir A Galloway Childhood (1967). ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 148 ratings · 24 reviews · 97 distinct works
The Poacher's Handbook
4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions
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Portrait of a Country Artis...
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Fresh Woods Pastures New
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Unknown England
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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English Country Traditions
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Trout from the Hills: The C...
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions
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A Galloway Childhood
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions
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The idler's companion
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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The Way of a Countryman
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions
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One man and his dogs
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions
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“Well if it didn’t happen I heard it told with a wonderful resemblance to the truth.”
― Ian Niall, A Galloway Childhood
tags: lies, stories, storytelling, truth
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“Tread softly, for there are stones buried along the grass and the sound of your boot on a stone would make an echo up in the trees.”
― Ian Niall, Fresh Woods
tags: echo, echoes, hiking, nature, quiet, quietness, tread-lightly, walking
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