McAlpine’s Men - – Irish Stories from the Sites

'On Saturday nights in The Half Moon, a ganger would come in and ask did you want a shift in the morning (pulling cable for Murphy). If you did, you had to guarantee him a drink the next night. The shift might last from seven o'clock until half past twelve, for about five pounds a shift. No documentation- just a bundle of fivers in the pub, and pay the men out'

This collection is edited by Ultan Cowley who, since the early nineties, has devoted himself to recording the stories of Irish emigrants whose lives revolved around the British construction industry in the last century. It will be a delight to those who were there, and a revelation to those who weren't.........