My Irish-Gaelic class, held every Wednesday evening at the Irish-American Club East Side (in Euclid, Ohio), read a book in Irish called "Rotha Mor an tSaoil," which means literally "Big Wheel of Life." The book has been translated into English with a different title, "The Hard Road to Klondike." A few years ago (1999), Desmond Bell, a documentary filmmaker who is also a professor at Queens University Belfast, made a film of the book and titled it "Hard Road to Klondike." The 55-minute film is not widely available, but I was able to borrow it from the Oberlin College Library. Last night our Irish class viewed the film at our regular Wednesday night meeting.
The book is the autobiography of Mickey MacGowan, born in 1865 in a Gaelic-speaking region of County Donegal, Ireland [more coming].
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