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Title:

The hard road to Klondike : from Rotha mór an tsaoil : the autobiography of Michael MacGowan / a Faction Films production in association with Glass Machine Productions for RTE and BBC Northern Ireland ... ; producer, Sylvia Stevens ; director, Desmond Bell.

Publisher:

Cinema Guild,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

1 videocassette (52 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

MacGowan, Michael,--1865-1948.
Donegal (Ireland : County)--Biography.
Yukon Territory--Biography.
Donegal (Ireland : County)--Social life and customs.
Irish--Yukon--Biography.
Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Bell, Desmond. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91002175
Stevens, Sylvia. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00038937
Rea, Stephen. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no95028097
MacGowan, Michael, 1865-1948. Rotha mór an tsaoil.
Factor Films.
Glass Machine Productions.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81047067
BBC Northern Ireland. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96029001
Cinema Guild. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83154829

Notes:

Narrator, Rea Stephen.

Summary:

Based on the autobiography of Donegal-born Michael MacGowan (1865-1948), this video is an account of his life as a migrant worker in Scotland and exile in America in the late nineteenth century. His story mirrors the lives of millions of Irish emigrants who crossed the Atlantic in search of a new start.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52923536

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)