FREE UK Delivery on book orders dispatched Amazon over 10. An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile Paperback 1 Jul 2013. This item:An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile Donall MacAmhlaigh Paperback 8.99. Navvy, a shorter form of navigator (UK) or navigational engineer (US), is particularly applied to The majority of navvies were Englishmen, with 30% of the group being Irish. While this ratio varied from navvy shanty town to shanty town, John B. Keane's view of emigration as a profoundly deleterious social phenomenon which is inimical to the integrity of nation, community and the self is loudly AT the last election in June, I was delighted to regain my seat as Member of Parliament for the V I've been rereading a book I last studied in Irish class back in Dublin, called "Dialann Deoraí," or "An Irish Navvy the Diary of an Exile. Tunnel tigers, McAlpine's Fusiliers and the Connacht men who built the "Big Ditch" - the Manchester Ship Canal - have been acknowledged Donall MacAmhlaigh from Galway moved with his family to Kilkenny at the age of fourteen. Later he returned to Galway, joined the army and left in 1951 after
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