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Children Of The Dead End

Children Of The Dead End

by Patrick MacGill

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Author
MacGill, Patrick, 1890?-1963
Title
Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy
Credits
Produced by MWS, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Donegal (Ireland : County) -- Fiction
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 50324
Release Date
October 27, 2015
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.CHILDREN OF THE DEAD END
  2. 2.FOREWORD
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.CHAPTER I A NIGHT IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE — FOOTNOTE:
  5. 5.CHAPTER II OLD CUSTOMS
  6. 6.CHAPTER III A CORSICAN OUTRAGE
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV THE GREAT SILENCE — FOOTNOTES:
  8. 8.CHAPTER V THE SLAVE MARKET
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI BOYNE WATER AND HOLY WATER
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII A MAN OF TWELVE
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII OLD MARY SORLEY
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX A GOOD TIME
  13. 13.CHAPTER X THE LEADING ROAD TO STRABANE
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI THE 'DERRY BOAT
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII THE WOMAN WHO WAS NOT ASHAMED
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII THE MAN WITH THE DEVIL'S PRAYER BOOK
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV PADDING IT
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV MOLESKIN JOE
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI MOLESKIN JOE AS MY FATHER
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII ON THE DEAD END — FOOTNOTES:
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII THE DRAINER
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX A DEAD MAN'S SHOES
  23. 23.CHAPTER XX BOOKS
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXI A FISTIC ARGUMENT — FOOTNOTE:
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXII THE OPEN ROAD — FOOTNOTES:
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII THE COCK OF THE NORTH
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIV MECCA
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXV THE MAN WHO THRASHED CARROTY DAN — FOOTNOTE:
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXVI A GREAT FIGHT
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVII DE PROFUNDIS
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVIII A LITTLE TRAGEDY
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXIX I WRITE FOR THE PAPERS
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXX WINTER
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXXI THE GREAT EXODUS
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXII A NEW JOB
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXIII A SWEETHEART OF MINE — FOOTNOTE:
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIV UNSKILLED LABOUR OF A NEW KIND
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXXV THE SEARCH
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXXVI THE END OF THE STORY

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