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Exiles (Translations 11), Translated by Micheal O hAodh

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Title
Exiles (Translations 11)
ISBN
1912681315
EAN
9781912681310
Type
Paperback / softback
Binding
Paperback / softback
Date of Publication
20201001
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Release Title
Exiles (Translations 11)
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Translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha
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Publication Year
2020
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Exiles
Item Height
203mm
Author
Donall Mac Amhlaigh
Publisher
Parthian Books
Topic
Literature
Item Width
127mm
Number of Pages
350 Pages

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Two Irish migrants on the cusp of new lives in post-war Britain. Two young people who dare to dream of a better life, and dance the music of survival in their adopted homeland. Afraid that his wife and children will arrive over any day, Trevor is in a hurry to settle old scores with his rivals and to prove himself the top fighting man within his London-Irish community of drinkers and navvies while Nano seeks to escape the stifling conformity and petty jealousies of her peers and forget her failed love-match at home. Will Trevor finally prove himself the man and secure the respect that he feels is his by virtue of blood and tribe? Does Nano have it in her to break free of the suffocating bonds of home and community and find love with Lithuanian beau Julius? Written at a time when the Irish were building England up and tearing it down again, and teeming with the raucous energy of post-war Kilburn, Cricklewood and Camden Town this novel is one of the very few authentic portrayals of working-class life in modern Irish literature. Up to one in four UK citizens claims Irish heritage. For each decade of the 1950s alone - a time of British postwar boom and Irish economic decline - over half of Ireland's population, those coming of age in that decade, emigrated: the majority to England. And while Irish-owned companies today account for one tenth of the almost GBP100bn British construction industry, those navvies who built our homes, roads and hotels comprise a forgotten generation, alongside the nurses that made the crossing alone to power our nascent Welfare State. Donall Mac Amhlaigh was among them, working on construction sites throughout London and the Midlands, including the M1 and M6 motorways. In this autobiographical novel are the people who later calcified into stereotypes of Irish immigrants and their haunts: the navvy, the drinker, the fighter, the nurse. As with the Polish builder, Romanian gangster or Spanish nurse of today, such caricatures have their source in real lives adapting to economic reality. 'A wonderful addition to Irish literature.' - Colum McCann, National Book Award winner 'I cannot stress strongly enough the importance of bringing this work to a wider readership.' -Tony Murray - Director, Irish Studies Centre, London Metropolitan University, London. 'Donall Mac Amhlaigh is the most perceptive and informed writer on the Irish in 20th century Britain.' - Professor Enda Delaney, author of The Irish in Post-War Britain

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Book Title
Exiles
Author
Donall Mac Amhlaigh
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2020
Number of Pages
350 Pages

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203mm
Item Width
127mm

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Donall Mac Amhlaigh
Series Title
Translations 11
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United Kingdom

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