Biographie de McCawley Grange
McCawley Grange was born in York in 1940. At the age of ten he emigrated with his family to County Wicklow, Eire, whereupon the family began to suffer financial hardship. Leaving school at thirteen years of age he worked in the building trade, then as a hotel worker and gardener and on his return to York in 1956, successively as a linesman, factory worker and builder. At age seventeen, following a row with his father, he left home for London, where for a time he lived and worked with the Irish labouring fraternity.
Returning to York, he joined the Fire Service in 1962 and after twenty-five years left the service with the rank of Assistant Divisional Officer. Following this, he spent two years with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) organization building 'low cost' housing in Kenya. Now retired, he lives in York with his wife, two children and four grandchildren employing much of his time playing golf and writing.
Some Lessons in Gaelic is his first book.