num_pages: 320
description: Written as fiction, this text is Patrick MacGill's autobiography. Starting with an account of his childhood in Ireland at the end of the 19th century, the story moves to Scotland where, tramp then gang-labourer then navvy, Dermond Flynn (as he sometimes calls himself) discovers himself as a writer.
language: English
title: Children of the Dead End
titlecomplete: Children of the Dead End
characters: Carroty Dan, Norah Ryan, Dermod Flynn, Moleskin Joe
genres: Ireland, Memoir, Scotland, Classics, Irish Literature, History
ratings_count: 171
places: Ireland, Glasgow, Scotland, Kinlochleven, Lochaber, Scotland, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
publisher: Birlinn