ISBN: 9781903464366 - an irish navvy: the diary of an exile (4 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: New.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. This is the 2004 Reprint in very good condition. Light edge wear. Edge of page block starting to fox. Internally clean bright and tight. No pen marks or inscriptions. Not ex-lib. Please examine all seller photos.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Thus. This copy is in fine, unread condition, bright, white, tight and square, in illustrated card covers as issued. Originally published in 1964, this is Donall MacAmhlaigh's own story as a navvy or unskilled workman in post World War II England. Here is backbreaking, blister-making work, followed by pints of the black stuff in the Admiral Rodney and many other pubs. Workless and foodless days, the hardships of work camps, lonesome partings after trips home, periods of intense isolation and occasional bitterness-this is an honest account of how the average Irish labourer worked and lived in and contributed to the country of the ancient enemy. Celebrated in song as 'McAlpine's Fusiliers' This is the story of the thousands of unskilled labourors who left Ireland without hope or education, Days without food or work, the hardships of work camps, lonesome partings after trips home, periods of intensive isolation and bitter reflection, were all part of the experience. Ref SS3.…