patrick macgill

Children of the Dead End

Peopled with extraordinary characters, suffused with humour and yet unflinching in its portrayal ...

The Great Push

In 1915 Patrick MacGill, the 'navvy poet' whose autobiographical novel about his life as a potato...

Moleskin Joe

Moleskin Joe is one of the most memorable characters to appear in Patrick MacGill's first two boo...

The Rat Pit

'A restrained poetic vision overshadowed only by MacGill's passionate hatred of the gombeen men a...

The Rat-Pit

In the city of Glasgow there is a lodging house for women known as 'The Rat Pit'. Here the vagran...

The Amateur Army

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no speci...

The Amateur Army

Patrick MacGill (24 December 1889 - November 1963) was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, kn...

The Red Horizon

The Amateur Army

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no speci...

GREAT PUSH. An Episode of The Great War

The Rat-Pit

In the city of Glasgow there is a lodging house for women known as 'The Rat Pit'. Here the vagran...

The Rat-Pit

In the city of Glasgow there is a lodging house for women known as 'The Rat Pit'. Here the vagran...