Prochóg na luchóg /

le Pádraig Mac a' Ghoill; curtha i nGaeilge ag Mícheál mac Giolla Easbuic.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: MacGill, Patrick, 1890-1963.
Contributors: Mac Giolla Easbuic, Mícheál, translator.
Summary:The Rat-Pit was the name of a boarding house in Glasgow where destitute women could get accommodation for a few pennies, and no-one was turned away. Patrick MacGill viewed the world as one such big pit. He tells the tragic story of Nóra Ní Riain, a young woman who spent a life of poverty in Tyrconnell at the end of the 19th century. She committed 'the big sin' when she was in slavery in Scotland, and she is left on the empty strand of the big world's pit. However much difference there is between life at that time and life as it is today, love and dejection are still with us, and there is power in MacGill's telling of it. - (translation of summary on back cover).
Format: Book
Language:Irish
Text in Irish.
Published / Created: Coiscéim,
Subjects:
Notes:Includes portrait of Patrick McGill.

Patrick MacGill (24 December 1889 – 22 November 1963) was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing.

Physical description: [8], 261, [2] pages : portrait ; 21 cm.

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