Children Of The Dead End - Couverture souple

MacGill, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780277644 ISBN 13 : 9781780277646

Editeur : Birlinn Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Patrick Baker has worked in the publishing industry for many years and is currently writer for an investment management company. He is a keen outdoor enthusiast and has walked and climbed throughout Scotland and Europe. He is the author of The Cairngorms: A Secret History. 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Birlinn Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1780277644
• ISBN 13: 9781780277646
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible