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"Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission." -- Patrick MacGill
Patrick MacGill (24 December 1889 — 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.

MacGill was born in dowisatrepla Glenties, County Donegal. A statue in his honour is on the bridge where the main street crosses the river in Glenties.

During the First World War, MacGill served with the London Irish Rifles (1/18th Battalion, The London Regiment) and was wounded at the Battle of Loos on 28 October 1915.

MacGill wrote a memoir-type novel called "Children of the Dead End".

In early 2008, a docu-drama starring Stephen Rea was made about the life of Patrick MacGill. One of the film's locations was the boathouse of Edinburgh Canal Society at Edinburgh on the Union Canal, and one of its rowing boats.

An annual literary summer school is held in Glenties in mid July each year in his honour.

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Total Books: 132
The RatPit
2010 - The Ratpit (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781142607029
ISBN-10: 114260702X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Great Push An Episode of the Great War
2010 - The Great Push an Episode of the Great War (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781141409839
ISBN-10: 1141409836
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Songs of a Navvy
2010 - Songs of a Navvy (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781152614581
ISBN-10: 1152614584
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Songs of a Navy
2010 - Songs of a Navy (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781152614604
ISBN-10: 1152614606
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Children of the Dead End The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy
2010 - Children of the Dead End the Autobiography of an Irish Navvy (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151965769
ISBN-10: 1151965766
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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The Brown Brethren
2009 - The Brown Brethren (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151195685
ISBN-10: 1151195685
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Soldier Songs
2009 - Soldier Songs (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781151680952
ISBN-10: 1151680958
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Maureen
2009 - Maureen (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781150778537
ISBN-10: 1150778539
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Glenmornan
2009 - Glenmornan (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781150259999
ISBN-10: 115025999X
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Songs of the Dead End
2009 - Songs of the Dead End (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781151327154
ISBN-10: 1151327158
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Children of the Dead end the Autobiography of a Navvy
2009 - Children of the Dead End the Autobiography of a Navvy (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781117502588
ISBN-10: 1117502589
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The Amateur Army
2009 - The Amateur Army (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781116681406
ISBN-10: 1116681404
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The red horizon
2009 - The Red Horizon (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780217765022
ISBN-10: 0217765025
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The Dough Boys
2009 - The Dough Boys [1918] (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781112397127
ISBN-10: 1112397124
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The Diggers The Australians in France
2009 - The Diggers the Australians in France (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781110840694
ISBN-10: 1110840691
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Great Push An Episode Of The Great War
2009 - Great Push an Episode of the Great War (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781843421351
ISBN-10: 1843421356
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The Rat Pit
2008 - The Rat Pit [1915] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781437401066
ISBN-10: 1437401066
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Songs Of Donegal
2008 - Songs of Donegal [1921] (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781436575713
ISBN-10: 1436575710
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Rifleman MacGill's War a Soldier of the London Irish During the Great War in Europe including The Amateur Army The Red Horizon  The Great Push
The Navvy Poet Collected Poetry
1985 - The Navvy Poet Collected Poetry (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781850660019
ISBN-10: 1850660018
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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THE NAVVY POET The Collected Poetry of Patrick MacGill
The Navvy Poet the Collected Poetry of Patrick Macgill (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780863220692
ISBN-10: 086322069X
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