I would be grateful for any information on books titles or songs that deal with the life style and the working conditions of the 'Navvys'; and the 'Irish Navvy' in particular, during the building of the Canals and the Railways in America.

I am not particularly interested in canals or railways themselves, but rather in the conditions under which the navvies laboured, their songs and writings if any, and their social acceptance or otherwise.

Slan.......Frank Harte.