Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Patrick MacGill

Born: December 24, 1889
Died: 1963 (aged 73)
Bio: Patrick MacGill was an Irish journalist, poet and novelist, known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing.
Known for:
- Children of the dead end (1914)
- The rat-pit (1915)
- The Red Horizon (1916)
- Great Push (1916)
- Moleskin Joe (1923)