Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Moleskin Joe
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Moleskin Joe
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher:
ISBN: 9780863220319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Children of the Dead End
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
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.
Canadian Bookman
Author: The English Review
Author: Ford Madox FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Modernism (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Book Review Digest
Author: The Great Push
Author: Patrick MacGillPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857903276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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. A classic of war literature, The Great Push is a passionate and compelling book which describes the fear, resilience, humour and fatalism of those who fought in the raw edge of one of the most terrifying wars ever to have been waged.
The Knot Garden: Some Old Fancies Reset
Author: Marjorie BowenPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Knot Garden by Marjorie Bowen is about intelligent and capable Princess Sophia Magdalena as she goes about her daily duties and searches for a suitor despite having an ugly face. Excerpt: "WHEN I was a child," said Princess Sophia Magdalena thoughtfully, "I used to dream of escaping into the woods and of living there forever. I thought that I could exist on wild strawberries, that the moss would make a very pleasant bed at night, that the dew, caught in the cups of the lily leaves, would make a delicious drink."
Author: Marian Bower