The Rat Pit

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857902832

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Set in the Ireland and Scotland of the early 1900s, and based on real events, The Rat-Pit is the tragic story of Norah Ryan, a devout and intelligent Donegal girl who leaves her homeland after the death of her father hoping to find a better life 'across the water'. Unable to escape the cycle of grinding poverty, Norah's fate is further sealed when she becomes pregnant by Alec Morrison, the son of the farmer on whose land she lives and progressive views on social justice, Alec callously abandons her and, too proud to accept his begrudging offer of financial help, she finds herself bitterly ostracised. More than the story of one woman's decline and death, The Rat-Pit is also a grim and unflinchingly realistic portrayal of the Irish immigrant experience in Scotland, as well as a savage critique of a Church and society that did its best to crush those who could scarcely be more vulnerable and disadvantaged.

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547059035

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The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill Pdf

This absorbing work tells the tragic story of a Donegal girl named Norah Ryan. Righteous and intelligent Norah left her homeland after her father's death, desiring a better life across the water. Unable to get out of the cycle of poverty, Norah's fate is drastically affected when she becomes pregnant by Alec Morrison, the son of the farmer on whose land she lived and worked in awful conditions. Set in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1900s and based on actual events, 'The Rat-Pit' follows her struggles against poverty.

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Boardinghouses
ISBN : NYPL:33433074875661

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The Rat-pit by Patrick MacGill Pdf

Author : PATRICK. MACGILL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033177970

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RAT-PIT by PATRICK. MACGILL Pdf

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230302336

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The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII THE TRAGEDY OFTEN a youth leaves Donegal and goes out into the world, does well for a time, writes frequently home to his own people, sends them a sum of money in every letter (which shows that he is not a spendthrift), asking them for a little gift in return, a scapular blessed by the priest, or a bottle of water from the holy well (which shows that he has not forgotten the faith in which he was born); but in the end he ceases to write, drops out of the ken of his people and disappears. The father mourns the son for a while, regrets that the usual money-order is not forthcoming, weeps little, for too much sentiment is foreign to the hardened sensibilities of the poor; the mother tells her beads and does not fail to say one extra decade for the boy or to give a hardearned guinea to the priest for masses for the gasair's soul. Time rapidly dries their tears of regret, their sorrow disappears and the more pressing problems of their lives take up their whole interests again. In later years they may learn that their boy died of fever in a hospital, or was killed by a broken derrick-jib, or done to death by a railway train. "Them foreign parts were always bad," they may say. "Black luck be with the big boat, for it's few it takes back of the many it takes away!" A year had passed by since James Ryan last heard from Fergus his son. No word came of the youth, and none of the Prosses people, great travellers though the young of Frosses were, had ever come across him in any corner of the world. "We are missing the blue pieces of paper," Mary Ryan said to her husband one evening in the late autumn, fully three years after Fergus's departure. She now spent her days sitting at the fire, and though her health was not the best it had...

Author : Patrick Macgill
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0265311047

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The Rat-Pit (Classic Reprint) by Patrick Macgill Pdf

Excerpt from The Rat-Pit Grant can get a nightly bunk for a few pence, and no female is refused admittance: the unfortunate, the sick, and work-weary congregate under the same roof, breathe the same fetid air and forget the troubles of a miserable existence in strong drink, the solace of the sorrowful, or in heavy stupor, the slumber of the toilworn. The underworld, of which I have seen and known such a lot, has always appeared to me as a Greater Rat-pit, where human beings, pinched and poverty-stricken and ground down with a weight of Oppression, are hemmed up like the plague-stricken in a pest-house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ike Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Rats
ISBN : UCAL:$B309116

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Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher, After 25 Years' Experience by Ike Matthews Pdf

Author : Ike Matthews
Publisher : Publio Kiadó Kft.
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789633819692

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Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher by Ike Matthews Pdf

In placing before my readers in the following pages the results of my twenty-five years’ experience of Rat-catching, Ferreting, etc., I may say that I have always done my best to accomplish every task that I have undertaken, and I have in consequence received excellent testimonials from many corporations, railway companies, and merchants. I have not only made it my study to discover the different and the best methods of catching Rats, but I have also taken great interest in watching their ways and habits, and I come to the conclusion that there is no sure way of completely exterminating the Rodents, especially in large towns. If I have in this work referred more particularly to Rat-catching in Manchester that is only because my experience, although extending over a much wider area, has been chiefly in that city, but the methods I describe are equally applicable to all large towns. Yours truly, IKE MATTHEWS.

Author : Joe Shute
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781399402491

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Stowaway by Joe Shute Pdf

A cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing. Rats are creatures which inspire fear and fascination in equal measure. Their lives are more closely entwined with humans than any other animal, but they remain the most misunderstood of all species. Yet, arguably no animal has sacrificed more in the pursuit of human health but also been so resolutely blamed for spreading plague and pestilence. No animal has been so determinedly targeted by humans, and still managed to survive and thrive in our midst. No animal is so often derided as being vicious and cunning, but possesses such a rich and complex inner life. In Stowaway, Joe Shute, explores our complex and often contradictory relationship with the rat. He travels the world from sub-Saharan Africa to the Rocky Mountains and visits some of the most rodent-infested cities on earth to unpick the myths we tell ourselves about rats and investigate the unexplored secrets of their own extraordinary lives. He examines the way in which rats have shaped human history and meets cutting-edge researchers harnessing the power of rat intelligence to achieve incredible results. He explores the hidden world they inhabit beneath our feet as well as their role in natural ecosystems. And through his own pet rats, he discovers the close emotional bonds they form with humans when given the chance. Ultimately, this is a book which questions what the lives of rats reveal to us about our own, and whether there might be a better way to live alongside our ancient enemies in the modern age?

Author : David Brian Plummer
Publisher : COCH Y BONDDU BOOKS
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10
Category : Ferreting
ISBN : 0953364879

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Tales of a Rat-Hunting Man by David Brian Plummer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 008058537X

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Molecular Endocrinology of Fish by Anonim Pdf

Hormones have a manifold impact upon growth and metabolism. This book focuses upon the molecular biology of fish hormones and their regulation. Chapters dealing with gonadotropin, corticotropin, vasotocin, isotocin, somatolactin, and other hormones are written by an international team of fish physiologists and endocrinologists. In addition, there are chapters that survey a growing literature on the ways hormones are regulated both in terms of their actions and in terms of the gene transcription that leads to their formation. The first two sections of the book covers brain and pituitary hormones and the latter two sections are devoted to other hormones and their regulation. As more and more endocrinologists and physiologists seek to use hormones that are inexpensive, provide for more facile experimental replication, and are less subject to cumbersome regulation, they will turn to the sorts of fish models reviewed in this book.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556039338561

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Bald Mountain Mine, North Operations Area Project by Anonim Pdf

Author : Milton Fingerman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482287066

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Endocrinology and Reproduction by Milton Fingerman Pdf

While advances in marine biotechnology will certainly enhance our capabilities in the marine realm, what we learn there will doubtless provide new insight into the biology of freshwater and terrestrial organisms. This volume is a compilation of information that covers a wide range of animal groups. This book will be of interest not only to biotechnologists but also to aquaculturists, comparative animal physiologists, comparative endocrinologists, and developmental biologists.

Author : Jan Bondeson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781445609645

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Amazing Dogs by Jan Bondeson Pdf

Amazing Dogs tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

Author : Robert Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781596919174

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Rats by Robert Sullivan Pdf

New York Public Library Book for the Teenager New York Public Library Book to Remember PSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year "Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Behold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of this most perversely intriguing, remarkable, and unexpectedly elegant New York Times bestseller. Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. With an all-new Afterword by the author