biography
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| (1890–1963)
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| biography:
| Navvy, novelist, and poet, born in the Glenties, Co Donegal, N Ireland. Sold into servitude by his farming parents, he escaped, working as a farm-labourer and a navvy. He wrote verses, and worked on the London Daily Express before being adopted as secretary by Canon John Neale Dalton of Windsor. He published his semi-autobiographical novel Children of the Dead End (1914), and this was followed by many other successful books. He married Margaret Gibbons (who published stories as Mrs Patrick MacGill), and went to the USA in 1930, where he declined into poverty, and developed multiple sclerosis. |
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