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The Rat-Pit
Patrick MacGill
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The child, shivering from cold, was sitting on the hassock, her hands spread out to the peat blaze.
“She has only just come in from the other side of the water,” said the mother, who was sitting up in bed, knitting stockings. “She lay out all night, poor creature! Twenty-seven women in all were lying out on the snow. And she got no yarn! Thanks be to God! but it’s a bad time.”
“A bad time, a hard time, a very hard time!” said the old man, sitting down on an upturned creel and taking off his mairteens. “No yarn! and there was not a fish in all the seas last night.”
“None but the ones we didn’t catch,” said Fergus. “It is that dirty potato-basket of a boat that is to blame.... Are you cold, Norah?”
“I am only shivering; but . . . Read More
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Caution :Contains spoilers.
Tells the heartbreaking story of Norah Ryan from her childhood in Donegal to her descent into prostitution and early death at age 22 in Glasgow. Macgills hatred of the role played by the Catholic Church in the lives of the Irish poor is powerfully conveyed and supported by
This book is set in early twentieth century Ireland and Scotland. Famine and poverty run unchecked among the working class. Norah Ryan is an intelligent, beautiful, and God fearing girl. She works hard in the cloth shops and the potato farms to keep her family fed. I expected that she would rise out