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Machine-Room Chants

by Tom Maguire

Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was published posthumously in 1895 and includes prefatory commemorative remarks by Keir Hardie and John Bruce Glasier.

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English

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English

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1895

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Tom Maguire was a British socialist, trade union organiser and poet from Leeds. Maguire was born to an Irish immigrant family in the poverty-stricken Bank area of Leeds. As a young boy he sang in the...

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