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.
4 Ebooks by Brian D. Osborne
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 …
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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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Neil Munro: Para Handy
Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. The master mariner and his crew – …
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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 …
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