Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy. Patrick MacGill
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| Автор произведения | Patrick MacGill |
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Patrick MacGill
Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664574763
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I A NIGHT IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE
CHAPTER III A CORSICAN OUTRAGE
CHAPTER VI BOYNE WATER AND HOLY WATER
CHAPTER X THE LEADING ROAD TO STRABANE
CHAPTER XII THE WOMAN WHO WAS NOT ASHAMED
CHAPTER XIII THE MAN WITH THE DEVIL'S PRAYER BOOK
CHAPTER XVI MOLESKIN JOE AS MY FATHER
CHAPTER XIX A DEAD MAN'S SHOES
CHAPTER XXIII THE COCK OF THE NORTH
CHAPTER XXV THE MAN WHO THRASHED CARROTY DAN
CHAPTER XXVIII A LITTLE TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XXIX I WRITE FOR THE PAPERS
CHAPTER XXXIII A SWEETHEART OF MINE
CHAPTER XXXIV UNSKILLED LABOUR OF A NEW KIND
CHAPTER XXXVI THE END OF THE STORY
FOREWORD
"I wish the Kinlochleven navvies had been thrown into the loch. They would fain turn the Highlands into a cinderheap," said the late Andrew Lang, writing to me a few months before his death.
In the following pages I have endeavoured to tell of the navvy; the life he leads, the dangers he dares, and the death he often dies. Most of my story is autobiographical. Moleskin Joe and Carroty Dan are true to life; they live now, and for all I know to the contrary may be met with on some precarious job, in some evil-smelling model lodging-house, or, as suits these gipsies of labour, on the open road. Norah Ryan's painful story shows the dangers to which an innocent girl is exposed through ignorance of the fundamental facts of existence; Gourock Ellen and Annie are types of women whom I have often met. While asking a little allowance for the pen of the novelist it must be said that nearly all the incidents of the book have come under the observation of the writer: that such incidents should take place makes the tragedy of the story.
Patrick MacGill.
The Garden House,
Windsor.
January, 1914.
CHILDREN
OF
THE
DEAD
END
CHILDREN OF
THE DEAD END
CHAPTER I A NIGHT IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE
"The wee red-headed man is a knowing sort of fellow,
His