Based on personal memories of his life in Ireland and Scotland in
the early 1900s, this was Patrick MacGill's first novel. It tells
the story of Dermod Flynn an independent and feisty youth who earns
a meagre living as an itinerant farm hand in Donegal and County
Tyrone before coming to Scotland with a potato-picking squad. After
living on the road, labouring and navvying, Dermod finds work on
the hydro-electric scheme at Kinlochleven -an extraordinarily
brutal and unforgiving environment where hundreds died on one of
the biggest engineering projects of its time. Against this
background, Dermod reads voraciously, begins to discover his talent
as a writer and is eventually lured to Fleet Street, where he
briefly becomes a journalist. Peopled with extraordinary
characters, Children of the Dead End is a gritty and uncompromising
expose of the near slavery endured by the poor in Scotland and
Ireland at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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