Extremes
Seamus Deane, 7 February 1985
Children of the Dead End: The Rat-Pit
by Patrick MacGill.
Caliban, 305 pp., £10, September 1983,0 904573 36 2 Show More
by Patrick MacGill.
Caliban, 305 pp., £10, September 1983,
The Red Horizon The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War
by Patrick MacGill.
Caliban, 306 pp., £9, October 1984,0 904573 90 7 Show More
by Patrick MacGill.
Caliban, 306 pp., £9, October 1984,
The Navy Poet: The Collected Poetry of Patrick MacGill
Caliban, 407 pp., £12, October 1984,0 904573 99 0 Show More
Caliban, 407 pp., £12, October 1984,
“... In 1914 Patrick MacGill’s first novel, Children of the Dead End, sold ten thousand copies in a fortnight. In the same year, Joyce’s Dubliners sold 499 copies, 120 of them bought by the author. In 1915, MacGill published a companion novel, The Rat-Pit, which was also highly successful and contained a Preface in which the author avowed himself to be ‘highly gratified’ by the success attained by Children of the Dead End ‘in Britain and abroad ... ”
