Download or read book The Navvy Poet written by Patrick MacGill and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Navvy Poet written by Patrick MacGill and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Navvy Poet written by Patrick MacGill and published by Brandon. This book was released on 1984 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Children of the Dead End written by Patrick MacGill and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book An Irish Navvy The Diary of an Exile written by Donall MacAmhlaigh and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2003-03-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Great Push written by Patrick MacGill and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Poems by Mike Young written by Mike Young and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are just poems I wrote about my time in the navy and about other things in life.

Download or read book The Railway Navvies written by Terry Coleman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways – the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.

Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Songs of Donegal written by Patrick MacGill and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin written by Nottingham (England). Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A World History of Railway Cultures 1830 1930 written by Matthew D. Esposito and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, this first volume covers the United Kingdom.

Download or read book The Nottingham Library Bulletin written by Nottingham Free Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book There is Only One Road and it Goes Everywhere written by Kathleen Phelan and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Phelan (nee Newton) was utterly unique; a female vagabond who embraced the freedom of the tramp lifestyle and philosophy. Like the infamous women explorers of the Victorian era, she traveled before as a single woman adventuring to every place on the planet funding her travels through canny bets on horseracing. At age 26 in 1944, she met and married author and fellow tramp, Jim Phelan who introduced her to his literary circle. She tramped another 40+ years after he passed roaming from continent to continent, staying with Picasso in Spain, playing football with Pele in Brazil, and even telling her stories to the Shah of Iran. Her magnetism attracted friends all over the world with whom she corresponded and kept entertained with lively letters. We meet Kathleen here in her never before published memoir of her travels with husband Jim and her return to the road after his passing in 1966. Also included are personal correspondence and magazine articles written by Kathleen while on the road. Her nephew Liam Phelan, a senior journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, writes a moving and personal introduction.

Download or read book A History of Irish Working Class Writing written by Michael Pierse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael Pierse is Lecturer in Irish literature at Queen's University Belfast. His research mainly explores the writing and cultural production of Irish working-class life. Over recent years this work has expanded into new multidisciplinary themes and international contexts, including the study of festivals, digital methodologies in public humanities and theatre-as-research practices. Michael has contributed to a range of national and international publications, is the author of Writing Ireland's Working Class: Dublin after O'Casey (2011), and has been awarded several Arts and Humanities Research Council awards and the Vice Chancellor's Award at Queen's"--