Patrick Mac Gill, ‘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.
12 E-böcker av Patrick MacGill
Patrick Macgill: Rat-Pit
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In the city of …
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Patrick MacGill: The Rat Pit
Set in the Ireland and Scotland of the early 1900s, and based on real events, The Rat-Pit is the tragic story of Norah Ryan, a devout and intelligent Donegal girl who leaves her homeland after the de …
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Patrick MacGill: The Great Push
Patrick Mac Gill 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 fatal …
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Patrick MacGill: Children of the Dead End
Based on personal memories of his life in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s, this was Patrick Mac Gill’s first novel. It tells the story of Dermod Flynn an independent and feisty youth who earn …
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Patrick MacGill: Moleskin Joe
Moleskin Joe is one of the most memorable characters to appear in Patrick Mac Gill's first two books, Children of the Dead End and The Rat-Pit. This sequel, first published in 1923, recalls the …
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Patrick Macgill: THE GREAT PUSH – An Episode on the Western Front during the Great War
By 1915 the trenches of the Western Front were in different states of repair, including the captured trenches, which had all but been destroyed as a result of shell fire. The countryside and villages …
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Patrick MacGill: THE DIGGERS – The Australians in France
In this small ebook, are but nine chapters which give an Australian perspective of their time spent on the Western Front in France. The imperishable deeds of the Commonwealth’s glorious soldiers, lea …
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Patrick MacGill: Rat-Pit
In the city of Glasgow there is a lodging house for women known as ’The Rat Pit’. Here the vagrant can get a nightly bunk for a few pence…’The Rat Pit’ is a transcript from life and most of the cha …
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Patrick MacGill: Amateur Army
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. At Chelsea I found …
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Patrick MacGill: Great Push – An Episode Of The Great War
Winner of a much esteemed star from doyen of First World War writers Cyril Falls, the author writes of the battle of Loos in 1915, particularly graphically. Mac Gill was actually engaged and wounded …
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Patrick MacGill: Amateur Army
Patrick Mac Gill (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. This work …
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Patrick MacGill: Red Horizon
"The Red Horizon" by Patrick Mac Gill is a powerful novel set against the backdrop of war and military conflict, focusing on the experiences of soldiers on the frontline during combat. The …
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