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Irish Elegies

Signed title page of "Irish Elegies", by Padraic Colum.This was printed by The Dolmen Press in 1961 and consists of elegies on Roger Casement, Kuno Meyer, John Butler Yeats, Arthur Griffith, Thomas Hughes Kelly, James Joyce, Dudley Digges, Seamus O'Sullivan and Monsignor Padraig de Brun.It highlights Colum's interest in Irish history and of his various friendships.

Letter on back of The Men of the Thames

Back of page extracted from a book detailing the poem The Men of the Thames by Patrick MacGill. Originally an extract taken from the London ‘Daily Express’, November 29th 1911. MacGill writes a brief letter from 4 the Cloisters, Windsor, to a comrade stating, ‘I have found a copy other than the only one which I thought I possessed, and shall be pleased if you accept it as a present from a fellow socialist. (I presume you are one).Yours fraternally Patrick MacGill’

With permission from Donegal County Archives

The Men of the Thames

Page extracted from a book detailing the poem The Men of the Thames by Patrick MacGill. Originally an extract taken from the London ‘Daily Express’, November 29th 1911, this poem was recited by Charles Knowles, a famous English baritone, at the ‘Express’ meeting, held at Greenwich, to demand a warship for the Thames.

With permission from Donegal County Archives

MacGill Family Photo

Black and white photograph of Patrick MacGill with his family. The photograph includes Patrick MacGill and his wife, Margaret Gibbons, in the foreground, holding their twin baby daughters Patricia and Chriss Ursula. In the background, behind Patrick MacGill stands Mrs A.Gibbons, Mother of his wife Margaret, and behind Margaret stands her sister, Dolly Gibbons.

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Menu of the Dug-Out Banquet

Page from The Red Horizon (edition published in 1984), an extract from the chapter The Dug-Out Banquet. This chapter describes a memorable dinner, which took place in a trench in France, described as ‘The Savoy’ dug-out, during the First World War.

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Seán Dunne at his desk in Scoil Lorcáin

Seán Dunne at his desk in Scoil Lorcáin

© The Gallery Press (from the cover of In My Fathers House

Letter from Patrick MacGill with Socialist content

Letter written by Patrick MacGill c.1912, 4 The Cloisters, Windsor Castle, concerning the British Socialist Party. Addressed only to ‘comrade’, it offers the branch of the B.S.P (British Socialist Party?) a copy of his new book and speculates that the B.S.P is financially not very strong. MacGill states that he had been employed at the London Daily Express, under the editorship of A.C. Pearson. He also states that he now has a job in Windsor Castle translating and copying manuscripts and has induced his master to read The Clarion.

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Cover of Patrick MacGill Summer School Programme

Cover of Patrick MacGill Summer School Programme, 2003, 23rd Annual International Summer School, Glenties, Co.Donegal. The theme of the 2003 summer school is ‘Building a more Civilised Society in Ireland’. This programme details how long the summer school has been in existence, that is 1981 – 2003. 1981 was the year of the inauguration of the first Patrick MacGill festival and in 1984, the festival became known as the Patrick MacGill Summer School.

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Children of the Dead End

Front cover of Patrick MacGill’s book ‘Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy’. This is the cover of the seventh edition, published in 1918 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London. However, this book was originally published in 1914 and it is suggested that 10,000 copies were printed in March of that year. Children of the Dead End was one of two interlocking novels. The other, The Rat Pit, was published in 1915. Both tell the story of Dermod Flynn and Norah Ryan, who come from Ireland as children to work as tattie howkers in Scotland. MacGill writes with first hand knowledge of the experiences and conditions these seasonal workers had to endure.

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Black and White photograph of young Patrick MacGill.

This photographic portrait portrays a young Patrick MacGill, possibly at the beginning of his literary career, around 1911 and 1912, the time his two collections of poetry Gleanings from a Navvy’s Scrapbook and Songs of a Navvy, were published. With these and the publication of his next book, Songs of the Dead End, he became known as ‘The Navvy Poet’.

With permission from Donegal County Archives