MacGill Patrick
Patrick MacGill (24 December 1889 – November 1963) was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing. MacGill was born in Glenties, County Donegal. A statue in his honour is on the bridge where the main street crosses the river in Glenties. During the First World War, MacGill served with the London Irish Rifles (1/18th Battalion, The London Regiment) and was wounded at the Battle of Loos on 28 October 1915.[1] MacGill wrote a memoir-type novel called "Children of the Deadend". In early 2008, a docu-drama starring Stephen Rea was made about the life of Patrick MacGill. One of the film's locations was the boathouse of Edinburgh Canal Society at Edinburgh on the Union Canal, and one of its rowing boats.
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the rat pit
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A tragic story of the struggle of Donegal girl, Norah Ryan against poverty in turn-of-the-century Glasgow by Patrick MacGill (1889 –1963), an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet". “The Rat Pit” became a semi sequel to “Children of the Dead End”, MacGill's autobiographical novel of his childhood in Ireland and later Scotland. The story Norah Ryan, who is forced into the harshest of lives, is filled with fierce anticlericalism and describes the social conditions in the early years of the century.
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the great push an episode of the great war
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Patrick MacGill, a twentieth century Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known also as "The Navy Poet", says in preface: I have tried in this book to give, as far as I am allowed, an account of an attack in which I took part. Practically the whole book was written in the scene of action, and the chapter dealing with our night at Les Brebis, prior to the Big. Push, was written in the trench between midnight and dawn of September 25th; the concluding chapter in the hospital at Versailles two days after I had been wounded at Loos.
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the rat pit
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A tragic story of the struggle of Donegal girl, Norah Ryan against poverty in turn-of-the-century Glasgow by Patrick MacGill (1889 –1963), an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet". “The Rat Pit” became a semi sequel to “Children of the Dead End”, MacGill's autobiographical novel of his childhood in Ireland and later Scotland. The story Norah Ryan, who is forced into the harshest of lives, is filled with fierce anticlericalism and describes the social conditions in the early years of the century.
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Patrick MacGill, a twentieth century Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known also as "The Navy Poet", says in preface: I have tried in this book to give, as far as I am allowed, an account of an attack in which I took part. Practically the whole book was written in the scene of action, and the chapter dealing with our night at Les Brebis, prior to the Big. Push, was written in the trench between midnight and dawn of September 25th; the concluding chapter in the hospital at Versailles two days after I had been wounded at Loos.
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the brown brethren
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Originally published in 1917. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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songs of a navvy
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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romance of a harem translatede by clarence forestier walker
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maureen
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1920 edition by Herbert Jenkins Limited, London. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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glenmornan
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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children of the dead end the autobiography of an irish navvy
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children of the dead end the autobiography of a navvy
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“Children of the Dead End” by Patrick MacGill, an Irish novelist, known as "The Navy Poet", appears to be his own autobiography, though written as a fiction novel. The book transports readers to the end of the 19th century, the author’s childhood times in Ireland; and continues the narration of the journey and events of his further navying life. Exhausted by the grinding poverty, the hero leaves home and at the age of 12 in search of work ‘beyond the hills’; works to exhaustion for indifferent tenant farmers, and runs away, joining the emigrants headed for Scotland. The book, a moving tale of lost love, published in 1914, still remains fresh and exciting reading.
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The Red Horizon
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III OUR FRENCH BILLETS The fog is white on Glenties moors, The road is grey from Glenties town, Oh! lone grey road and ghost white fog, And ah! the homely moors of brown. THE farmhouse where we were billeted reminded me strongly of my home in Donegal with its fields and dusky evenings and its spirit of brooding quiet. Nothing will persuade me, except perhaps the Censor, that it is not the home of Marie Claire, it so fits in with the description in her book. The farmhouse stands about a hundred yards away from the main road, with a cart track, slushy and muddy, running across the fields to the very door. The whole aspect of the place is forbidding, it looks squalid and dilapidated, and smells of decaying vegetable matter, of manure and every other filth that can find a resting place in the vicinity of an unclean dwelling-place. But it is not dirty; its home-made bread and beer are excellent, the new-laid eggsare delightful for breakfast, the milk and butter, fresh and pure, are dainties that an epicure might rave about. We easily became accustomed to the discomforts of the place, to the midden in the centre of the yard, to the lean long-eared pigs that try to gobble up everything that comes within their reach, to the hens that flutter over our beds and shake the dust of ages from the barn-roof at dawn, to the noisy little children with the dirty faces and meddling fingers, who poke their hands into our haversacks, to the farm servants who inspect all our belongings when we are out on parade, and even, now, we have become accustomed to the very rats that scurry through the barn at midnight and gnaw at our equipment and devour our rations when they get hold of them. One night a rat bit a man's nosebut the tale is a long one and I will tell it at some other...
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The Amateur Army
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Patrick MacGill (1889-1963) was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a "navvy" (itinerant labourer) before he began writing. At the age of 19 years he self-published eight thousand copies of a small book (56pp) printed by The Derry Journal which he called Gleanings from a Navvy's Scrapbook (1910). The following year Patrick was working as a journalist for the London Daily Express. Then he published his first novel Children of the Dead End (1914), of which 10,000 copies were printed in March 1914; Described as 'un nuovo grande astro della litteratura inglese' in La Stampa. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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