About MacGill
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Live Webcasts Monday 29 July – Friday 2 August
Monday 29 July, 11am session – Watch it here. 2.30pm session - Watch it here. 4.00pm session - Watch it here.
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About MacGill School
The MacGill Summer School has been in existence for thirty three years. It was founded in 1981 in Glenties, Co. Donegal to celebrate the memory of local writer, Patrick MacGill. MacGill wrote in the early 20th century on the social conditions in Donegal, the plight of migrant workers in Britain and the horrors of the Great [...]
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About Patrick MacGill
Patrick MacGill became known as the ‘Navvy Poet’ when a slim little volume of poetry which he had mostly written when working on the railways in Scotland and which he called ‘Gleanings from a Navvy’s Scrapbook’ came to the notice of the literary critics in Britain. It was at the end of the first decade [...]
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Come & Visit!
By bus, plane or car. All roads point to Glenties this July!