The Name's the Same: Scottish Placenames Worldwide

by Mary McCabe

191 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Mary McCabe is a Scottish author and political activist. She has worked as a secondary school teacher, a researcher of housing conditions, chronicler of community arts, careers advisor (which took her down coalmines and into shipyards and universities) and Researcher/Writer for Glasgow City Council Department of Education.

McCabe's novel Two Closes and a Referendum (2017) explores the impacts of Scotland's 2014 independence referendum on the lives of a dozen households in two Glasgow tenements.