Bibliograph

Children of the dead end, the autobiography of a navvy

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Children of the dead end, the autobiography of a navvy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Children of the dead end

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

the autobiography of a navvy

Summary

The groundbreaking autobiographical novel by the renowned Irish journalist, poet, and author of The Great Push and The Rat-Pit. Peopled with extraordinary characters, suffused with humor and yet unflinching in its portrayal of the near slavery of the poor in Scotland and Ireland. It was as influential in its own way as the work of social investigators such as Rowntree in bringing about change in British and Irish attitudes to poverty and destitution. Starting with an account of his childhood in Donegal, Ireland at the end of the 19th century, the story moves to Scotland where, living as a tramp, then working as a gang laborer, and for some years as a navvy at Kinlochleven near Fort William, Dermod Flynn (as he calls himself) begins to discover himself as a writer

Target audience

adult

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