Irvine Welsh

Quick Facts

Full Name	Irvine Welsh
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	Sep 27, 1958(1958-09-27)
Age	66
Birthplace	Scotland
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Libra

Irvine Welsh Biography

Irvine Welsh is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on September 27, 1958 in Scotland, United Kingdom. Fiction writer, playwright, and screenwriter best known for Trainspotting, a 1993 novel that was adapted into a popular 1996 film. His other literary works include the short story collection The Acid House and the play Babylon Heights.

He co-wrote the screenplay for Wedding Belles, a 2007 television film that starred Scottish actress Shirley Henderson.

Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His novel Trainspotting was made into a film of the same name. His work is characterised by a raw Scots dialect and brutal depiction of Edinburgh life. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.

As well as recreational drug use, Welsh’s fiction and non-fiction is dominated by the question of working class and Scottish identity in the period spanning the 1960s to the present day. Within this, he explores the rise and fall of the council housing scheme, denial of opportunity, sectarianism, football, hooliganism, sex, suppressed homosexuality, dance clubs, low-paid work, freemasonry, Irish republicanism, sodomy, class divisions, emigration and, perhaps most of all, the humour, prejudices and axioms of the Scots.

The son of a dock worker father and a waitress mother, he grew up in public housing projects in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Irvine Welsh Net Worth

Irvine Welsh is one of the richest Playwright from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Irvine Welsh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

During the late 1970s, he was a guitarist with several London-based punk bands. He later earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Heriot- Watt University in Scotland.

Three of his novellas were published as a 1996 work entitled Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance.

Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, the port area of the Scottish capital Edinburgh. He states that he was born in 1958, though, according to the Glasgow police, his birth record is dated around 1951. When he was four, his family moved to Muirhouse, in Edinburgh, where they stayed in local housing schemes. His mother worked as a waitress. His father was a dock worker in Leith until bad health forced him to quit, after which he became a carpet salesman; he died when Welsh was 25. Welsh left Ainslie Park High School when he was 16 and then completed a City and Guilds course in electrical engineering. He became an apprentice TV repairman until an electric shock persuaded him to move on to a series of other jobs. He left Edinburgh for the London punk scene in 1978, where he played guitar and sang in The Pubic Lice and Stairway 13, the latter a reference to the Ibrox disaster. A series of arrests for petty crimes and finally a suspended sentence for trashing a North London community centre inspired Welsh to correct his ways. He worked for Hackney London Borough Council in London and studied computing with the support of the Manpower Services Commission.

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Who is Irvine Welsh Dating?

According to our records, Irvine Welsh married to Beth Quinn , Anne Antsy. As of December 1, 2023, Irvine Welsh’s is not dating anyone.

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A corrupt police officer and his tapeworm served as the narrators for his third novel, Filth (1998). The main character of Filth was a vicious sociopathic policeman. The novel was adapted to a film with the same name in 2013.

Facts & Trivia

Irvine Ranked on the list of most popular Playwright. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Irvine Welsh celebrates birthday on September 27 of every year.

Glue (2001) was a return to the locations, themes and episodic form of Trainspotting, telling the stories of four characters spanning several decades in their lives and the bonds that held them together.

Who is Irvine Welsh in Trainspotting?

Welsh made a cameo appearance as the drug dealer Mikey Forrester.

Does Irvine Welsh live in Chicago?

Irvine ‘Trainspotting’ Welsh lives in Chicago and has a new project: a pop opera.

Which order to read Irvine Welsh books?

• Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995)
• Filth (1998)
• You’ll Have Had Your Hole (1998)
• The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (2006)
• Babylon Heights (2006)
• Crime (2008)
• The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (2014)
• The Blade Artist (2016)

How old is Irvine Welsh?

64 years (September 27, 1958)

Is Irvine Welsh Scottish?

Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His 1993 novel Trainspotting was made into a film of the same name. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.