Patrick Macgill

Children of the Dead End (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Flynn (as he calls himself) begins to discover himself as a writer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birlinn
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857907035
• Artikelnr.: 44669261

Autorenporträt

Patrick MacGill, 'the Navvy Poet' was born in Donegal in 1889 and died in Florida in 1963. He wrote a number of bestselling books (many of which are semi-autobiographical), including, Moleskin Joe, The Rat-pit and The Great Push, as well as a number of poetry collections. Patrick Baker has worked in the publishing industry for many years and is the author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History (Birlinn, 2014) and the acclaimed bestseller The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories (Birlinn, 2020).