Children of the Dead End
Peopled with extraordinary characters, suffused with humour and yet unflinching in its portrayal of the near slavery of the poor in Scotland and Ireland, Children of the Dead End sold 50,000 copies a year in the 1920s. It was as influential in its own way as the work of social investigators such as Rowntree in bringing about change in British and Irish attitudes to poverty and destitution. Starting with an account of his childhood in Donegal, Ireland at the end of the 19th century, the story moves to Scotland where, living as a tramp, then working as a gang labourer, and for some years as a navvy at Kinlochleven near Fort William, Dermod Flyn…
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- ISBN: 978-0-85790-703-5
- EAN: 9780857907035
- Produktnummer: 19599234
- Verlag: Birlinn
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 682 KB
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Patrick MacGill, known as 'the Navvy Poet' was born in Donegal in 1889. During the First World War he served with the London Irish Rifles and was wounded at Loos in 1915. His novel The Great Push was written as result of his wartime experiences. He emigrated to America with his wife and daughters in 1930 and died in Florida in1963.
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