An Irish Navvy – The Diary of an Exile
Title | An Irish Navvy – The Diary of an Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Donall MacAmhlaigh |
Publisher | Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2003-03-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1848899661 |
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.
An Irish Navvy
Title | An Irish Navvy PDF eBook |
Author | Donall Mac Amhlaigh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1971 |
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An Irish Navvy
Title | An Irish Navvy PDF eBook |
Author | Dónall Mac Amhlaigh |
Publisher | Routledge/Thoemms Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1964-12-01 |
Genre | Irish |
ISBN | 9780710028549 |
An Irish Navvy
Title | An Irish Navvy PDF eBook |
Author | Donald MacAulay |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Irish |
ISBN |
Dialann Deoraí. An Irish Navvy. The Diary of an Exile ... Translated from the Irish by Valentin Iremonger
Title | Dialann Deoraí. An Irish Navvy. The Diary of an Exile ... Translated from the Irish by Valentin Iremonger PDF eBook |
Author | Dónall MACAMHLAIGH |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1964 |
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ISBN |
Dialann deoraí. An Irish navvy: the diary of an exile; translated by Valentin Iremonger
Title | Dialann deoraí. An Irish navvy: the diary of an exile; translated by Valentin Iremonger PDF eBook |
Author | Dónall MACAMHLAIGH |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Exiles
Title | Exiles PDF eBook |
Author | Dónall Mac Amhlaigh |
Publisher | Translations 11 |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Irish fiction |
ISBN | 9781912681310 |
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'.