McAlpine's Men    by Ultan Cowley
Price: $7.50 USD. 36520 words. Published on January 14, 2012. .
"On Saturday nights in The Half Moon a ganger would come in and ask did you want a shift in the morning...If you did, you had to guarantee him a drink the next night." McAlpine’s Men is a unique collection of personally recounted stories from many of the 200,000 Irishmen who laboured on British civil engineering sites, pulled cable, drove tunnels and drank their pay. Edited by Ultan Cowley MA