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Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley (28 October 1922 – 9 August 1999) was a journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster from Glasgow in Scotland. Originally from Shettleston in the city's East End, he was educated at Eastbank Academy .
Aug 9, 1999 · Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley was a Scottish journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He was educated at Eastbank Academy in Glasgow. During the late 1930s, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector.
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- October 28, 1922
- Clifford Hanley
- August 9, 1999
- Early Life
- Journalism
- Lyricist
- Scriptwriter and Novelist
- Broadcaster
- Canada, 1979–80
- Personal Life
- Death, 1999
- Tributes
- Scotland The Brave Lyrics
Clifford Leonard Clark Hanley was born on 28 October 1922. Originally from Shettleston in the city's East End, he was educated at Eastbank Academy. During the late 1930s, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector.
Hanley began his journalistic career as a court and crime reporter with a small news agency in Glasgow's West Nile Street, before joining the Daily Recordat Kemsley House in Hope Street. Then in his mid-20s he found himself in his element, writing fast news pieces, theatre reviews, humourous articles, and full-scale features on almost any subject a...
In 1951, the famous Scots singer Robert Wilson was looking for a song to close his Christmas performance at a Scottish review musical show at Glasgow's Empire Theatre, and asked Hanley to write the words to accompany an old Highland pipe tune. Although few realised it at the time, Scotland the Brave was to become a nationwide and international hit,...
From the 1950s he tackled comedy script-writing for the BBC in Scotland. Hanley's childhood in Glasgow's East End provided the material for his most celebrated novel, Dancing In The Street, an evocative semi-autobiographical work published in 1957/58. (In its contemporaneous serialisation in the Evening Times it was retitled My Gay Glasgow.) It was...
Hanley's light and humorous touch, and sharp observations on Scottish life, saw him much in demand as a commentator on radio and television, not only in Scotland but on UK-wide programmes. Very much a 'professional Glaswegian', he was often called upon to comment on issues affecting the city. When Radio 4 Scotland re-launched its morning radio prog...
In October 1979 Hanley emigrated with his wife to Toronto, Canada after he was awarded a £8,500 fellowship from Glendon College, York University as Writer in Residence for eight months. This included lecturing at various universities. He told the Evening Times: He later said that the experience and honour was a highlight of his career.
A diminutive man, he married Anna, who was six feet tall, and much enjoyed the visual gag presented by the couple, whose long and happy marriage only ended with her sudden death. From 1965 to 1972 he was an active member of the Scottish Arts Council. Hanley was a lifelong fan of Partick Thistle.
Hanley never fully recovered from the sudden death of his wife Anna of heart failure in 1990, and the last three years of his life were spent comfortably in a city nursing home, marked by a deterioration in his memory. Cliff Hanley died on 9 August 1999. He left a son, Clifford, 50, and two daughters: Jane, 48, and Joanna, 41.
His daughter Jane, a stage manager, said: The writer and broadcaster Jimmy Reid described Hanley as a warm-hearted, ebullient man with a passion for music: Gordon Irving in the Heraldwrote: Ruth Wishart wrote that "his hallmark was that brand of self-deprecating, but sharp, humour which ensures that no Glaswegian can entertain ideas above his stati...
Hark when the night is falling Hear! Hear the pipes are calling, Loudly and proudly calling, Down thro' the glen. There where the hills are sleeping, Now feel the blood a-leaping, High as the spirits of the old Highland men. Towering in gallant fame, Scotland my mountain hame, High may your proud standards gloriously wave, Land of my high endeavour...
Clifford Hanley. 3.85. 20 ratings3 reviews. Dancing in the Streets is the book - not only the book about Glasgow, but the book about every city where people are alive. Hilarious, sad and tender, gentle anfd gutsy at the same time, this is the classic of its own day.
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Aug 30, 2021 · Cliff Hanley's Dancing in the Streets. One of the sharpest, funniest books ever written about Glasgow. Tom Morton. Aug 30, 2021. Freshers Week, Glasgow University, 1973. Getting on for a half a century ago, and I was swilling about Gilmorehill with hundreds of other hapless 17-year-olds, simultaneously thrilled with myself and absolutely terrified.
- Tom Morton
Aug 10, 1999 · Clifford Hanley, writer, novelist, and song-writer; born October 28, 1922, died August 9, 1999.
Aug 30, 2021 · The Christian Union bussed prospective ultra-Calvinists out to Loch Lomond for a barbecue, possibly the only beer-free event of the seven days. And Cliff Hanley spoke at a debate.
