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Children of the Dead End

By: Patrick MacGill

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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.

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Birlinn Ltd

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0857907034

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9780857907035

Children of the Dead End

By: Patrick MacGill

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By: Patrick MacGill

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The Great Push

By: Patrick MacGill

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The Great Push

By: Patrick MacGill

Patrick MacGill 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 fatalism of those who fought at the raw edge of one of the most terrifying wars ever to have been waged. A classic of war literature, The Great Push is a passionate and compelling book which describes the fear, resilience, humour and fatalism of those who fought in the raw edge of one of the most terrifying wars ever to have been waged.

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0857903276

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9780857903273

The Unremembered Places

Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories

By: Patrick Baker

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The Unremembered Places

Exploring Scotland's Wild Histories

By: Patrick Baker

Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Awards – Outdoor Book of the Year 2020 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020 There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible stories and past lives which still resonate today. Yet why are so many of these 'wild histories' unnoticed and overlooked? And what can they tell us about our own modern identity? From the high mountain passes of an ancient droving route to a desolate moorland graveyard, from uninhabited post-industrial islands and Clearance villages to caves explored by early climbers and the mysterious strongholds of Christian missionaries, Patrick Baker makes a series of journeys on foot and by paddle. Along the way, he encounters Neolithic settlements, bizarre World War Two structures, evidence of illicit whisky production, sacred wells and Viking burial grounds. Combining a rich fusion of travelogue and historical narrative, he threads themes of geology, natural and social history, literature, and industry from the places he visits, discovering connections between people and place more powerful than can be imagined.

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226

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788852664

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9781788852661

Forcing Choice

The Risky Reward of Referendums

By: J. Patrick Boyer

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Forcing Choice

The Risky Reward of Referendums

By: J. Patrick Boyer

Direct voting on key issues is a measure of society’s democratic maturity. “Forcing choice,” says Patrick Boyer, shows that a nation respects the judgment of its people and that its government is prepared to heed their will, and it can strengthen the bond that unites a country. But, just as a general election, a referendum can be risky business.

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385

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Dundurn

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1459739132

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9781459739130

THE GREAT PUSH

A novel from the trenches of Loos on the Western Front during 1915

By: Patrick MacGill

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THE GREAT PUSH

A novel from the trenches of Loos on the Western Front during 1915

By: Patrick MacGill

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 were a scene of utter devastation, nothing but mud and mounds of rubble where communities and fields of wheat had once stood. The main battles during 1915 were Ypres, French Flanders, Artois, Aisne, Champagne and Vosges. During September and October 1915 an attack by French and British forces from Vimy Ridge to La Bassée, was called the Artois-Loos Offensive or the Third Battle of Artois. This novella by Patrick MacGill, the 5th of 20, is based on his experiences in the trenches of Loos during this period, which resulted in arguably his best book on World War One. A classic of war literature, The Great Push could be considered autobiographical in nature and is nevertheless a passionate and compelling book which describes the fear, resilience, humour and fatalism of those who fought in the raw edge of one of the most terrifying wars ever to have been waged. MacGill had somehow penned all but the last two chapters in the trenches of Loos before being wounded. He wrote the last two chapters while recovering in hospital in the latter part of 1915. 10% of the profit from this book will be donated to the Royal British Legion to help fund their work with returned servicemen. TAGS: The Great Push, Great War, 1915, Loos, trenches, Ypres, French Flanders, Artois, Aisne, Champagne, Vosges, Vimy Ridge, La Bassée, Artois-Loos Offensive, Third Battle of Artois,

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Abela Publishing Ltd

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8826453187

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9788826453187

Culture in Camouflage

War, Empire, and Modern British Literature

By: Patrick Deer

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Culture in Camouflage

War, Empire, and Modern British Literature

By: Patrick Deer

Examines how literary writers including Ford Madox Ford, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, James Hanley, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and others countered the war culture promoted by mass media, war planners, and military historians.

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342

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199239886

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9780199239887

Moleskin Joe

By: Patrick MacGill

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Moleskin Joe

By: Patrick MacGill

Moleskin Joe is one of the most memorable characters to appear in Patrick MacGill's first two books, Children of the Dead End and The Rat-Pit. This sequel, first published in 1923, recalls the tramps and navvies MacGill encountered during his time on the road in Scotland and the north of England in the early years of the twentieth century. It centres around the adventures of Moleskin Joe, with his philosophy of 'there's a good time comin', although we may never live to see it', who in this book falls in love with a young Irish woman he meets on his travels. Filled with superb characterisation, humour, poignancy and eloquence, Moleskin Joe is a vivid portrayal of the hardships of the immigrant experience, which McGill not only experienced himself, but also successfully exposed to a huge audience through his writing.

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Birlinn Ltd

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0857907107

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9780857907103

Book's by Patrick MacGill

Children of the Dead End

Children of the Dead End

Children of the Dead End

Children of the Dead End

The Great Push

The Great Push

The Unremembered Places

The Unremembered Places

Forcing Choice

Forcing Choice

THE GREAT PUSH

THE GREAT PUSH

Culture in Camouflage

Culture in Camouflage

Moleskin Joe

Moleskin Joe

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