The Contractors

A stirring story about Irish building contractors in England in the early 1950s. Dan Murray emigrates to England in 1952. He finds work with Reicey Brothers, building contractors. He himself becomes a contractor to reckon with when he comes up with the innovative idea of drawing together labourers from all over Ireland, transporting them to England as he needs them for a job and, he hopes, increasing his profits by finishing the job ahead of time...There is also romantic interest in his life in the person of the attractive Iris O'Lully. In the time-span of the novel great changes occur in Dan Murray's life and in Irish society. John B. Keane captures with unerring skill the turbulent, bawdy, anarchic life of Irish contractors and labourers alike, as they ty to make it in England. This is the story of Dan Murray, who emigrated to England in 1952. He finds work as a building labourer and in time he becomes a building contractor.John B. Keane captures the turbulent, bawdy, anarchic life of Irish contractors and labourers as they try to make it big in England. Told in his usual hilarious and bulls-eye accurate style.