An Irish Navvy

Author : Donall MacAmhlaigh
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848899661
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Ultan Cowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956643612
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Men who Built Britain written by Ultan Cowley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donall Mac Amhlaigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish Navvy written by Donall Mac Amhlaigh and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dónall Mac Amhlaigh
Publisher : Routledge/Thoemms Press
ISBN 13 : 9780710028549
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish Navvy written by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh and published by Routledge/Thoemms Press. This book was released on 1964-12-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ultan Cowley
Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Men who Built Britain written by Ultan Cowley and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The contribution of the Irish 'Navvy' to the British construction industry has indeed been 'immeasurable'. For over two centuries, for hundreds of thousands of rural male Irish emigrants to Britain, the best chance of a start was in construction. While the men themselves have been largely forgotten or ignored, the canals, the railways, the roads, tunnels, dams and public utilities of Britain stand as lasting monuments to their sacrifices and achievements." "The Men who Built Britain has been researched by Ultan Cowley over a number of years. In it he quotes extensively from numerous interviews with Irish navvies and subcontractors, senior English management and relatives of those involved. Generously illustrated with striking pictures - many never previously published - this book ensures that the true story of the Irish navvy will not be forgotten."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Dónall Mac Amhlaigh
Publisher : Translations 11
ISBN 13 : 9781912681310
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiles written by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh and published by Translations 11. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-crafted novel is one of the few novels in either Irish or English that explores this generation of Irish people, often termed the 'silent' or 'lost generation' when over a half-a-million people emigrated, primarily to Britain to work in the post-war economy there - 'building England up and tearing it down again'.

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy written by Patrick MacGill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy" by Patrick MacGill. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0857907034
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466879807
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moy Sand and Gravel written by Paul Muldoon and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Muldoon's ninth collection of poems, his first since Hay (1998), finds him working a rich vein that extends from the rivery, apple-heavy County Armagh of the 1950s, in which he was brought up, to suburban New Jersey, on the banks of a canal dug by Irish navvies, where he now lives. Grounded, glistening, as gritty as they are graceful, these poems seem capable of taking in almost anything, and anybody, be it a Tuareg glimpsed on the Irish border, Bessie Smith, Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth I, a hunted hare, William Tell, William Butler Yeats, Sitting Bull, Ted Hughes, an otter, a fox, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Joscelyne, un unearthed pit pony, a loaf of bread, an outhouse, a killdeer, Oscar Wilde, or a flock of redknots. At the heart of the book is an elegy for a miscarried child, and that elegiac tone predominates, particularly in the elegant remaking of Yeats's "A Prayer for My Daughter" with which the book concludes, where a welter of traffic signs and slogans, along with the spirits of admen, hardware storekeepers, flimflammers, fixers, and other forebears, are borne along by a hurricane-swollen canal, and private grief coincides with some of the gravest matter of our age. Moy Sand and Gravel is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.