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ISBN: 9781841580005 - Children of the Dead End
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Children of the Dead End

Patrick MacGill

ISBN: 9781841580005
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Birlinn General
Edition: New edition


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Written as fiction, Children of the Dead End is in fact Patrick MacGill's autobiography. Starting with an account of his childhood in Donegal, Ireland, at the end of the nineteenth century, the story then moves to Scotland. Here …

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Although written as fiction, this book is autobiographical -- peopled with extraordinary characters, suffused with humor, and yet unflinching in its portrayal of the near slavery of the poor in Scotland and Ireland.
 
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