Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Navvy Poet
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Navvy Poet
Author: Patrick MacGillSongs of Donegal
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Donegal
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Great Push
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher: Birlinn Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Patrick MacGill enlisted with the London Irish Rifles in 1915 and The Great Push is the resultant work, written during the Battle of Loos. This story recounts the fear, resilience, humour, and fatalism of those who fought at the raw edge of one of the most terrifying wars ever to have been waged.
Children of the Dead End
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857907034
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Based on personal memories of his life in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s, this was Patrick MacGill's first novel. It tells the story of Dermod Flynn an independent and feisty youth who earns a meagre living as an itinerant farm hand in Donegal and County Tyrone before coming to Scotland with a potato-picking squad. After living on the road, labouring and navvying, Dermod finds work on the hydro-electric scheme at Kinlochleven –an extraordinarily brutal and unforgiving environment where hundreds died on one of the biggest engineering projects of its time. Against this background, Dermod reads voraciously, begins to discover his talent as a writer and is eventually lured to Fleet Street, where he briefly becomes a journalist. Peopled with extraordinary characters, Children of the Dead End is a gritty and uncompromising expose of the near slavery endured by the poor in Scotland and Ireland at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Poems by Mike Young
Author: Mike YoungPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524623970
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
These are just poems I wrote about my time in the navy and about other things in life.
An Irish Navvy – The Diary of an Exile
Author: Donall MacAmhlaighPublisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 1848899661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
DIrish construction workers in post-war Britain are celebrated in song and story. Donall MacAmhlaigh kept a diary as he worked the sites, danced in the Irish halls, drank in Irish pubs and lived the life of the roving Irish navvy. Work was hard, dirty and dangerous, followed by pints in the Admiral Rodney, the Shamrock, the Cattle Market Tavern and others. Living conditions were basic at best. This vivid picture of an Irish navvy's life in England in the 1950s mirrors that of an entire generation who left Ireland without education or hope. Days without food or work, the hardships of work camps, lonesome partings after trips home, periods of intense isolation and bitter reflection were all part of the experience. • Also available: Hard Road to Klondike.
The Red Horizon
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
"The Red Horizon" by Patrick MacGill. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Moy Sand and Gravel
Author: Paul MuldoonPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466879807
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Joscelyne, un unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots. At the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter" with which the book concludes, where a welter of traffic signs and slogans, along with the spirits of admen, hardware storekeepers, flimflammers, fixers, and other forebears, are borne along by a hurricane-swollen canal, and private grief coincides with some of the gravest matter of our age. Moy Sand and Gravel is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Navvy Poet
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher: Brandon
ISBN: 9780863220685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description