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    John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006) was an Irish writer and novelist. He is regarded as one of the most important writers of the latter half...
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  • The Dark is the second novel by Irish writer John McGahern, published in 1965. The Dark is set in Ireland's rural north-west, and it focuses on an adolescent...
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  • 2000s, championed by authors such as Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Bret Easton Ellis and John McGahern. William Stoner is born on a small farm in 1891. One...
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  • Collins. It is an adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same name by John McGahern. The film was nominated for 11 awards, winning Best Film, at the 2024...
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  • Amongst Women (category Novels by John McGahern)
    Amongst Women is a novel by the Irish writer John McGahern (1934–2006). McGahern's best known novel, it is also considered his greatest work. Published...
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  • story by John McGahern. The film is about the relationship between father and son, John and Eamon Doyle. Based on a short story by John McGahern, it is...
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  • That They May Face the Rising Sun (category Novels by John McGahern)
    That They May Face the Rising Sun, the sixth and final novel by John McGahern, is a critically acclaimed work, winning the Irish Book Awards in 2003 and...
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  • The Pornographer is the fourth novel by Irish author John McGahern, first published in 1979. This critically acclaimed work delves into the complex themes...
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    was often referred to pejoratively as a West Brit. He wrote fondly of John McGahern, who lost his job amid condemnation by his workplace and the Catholic...
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  • Well) is an autobiographical account of the childhood of Irish writer John McGahern. It was published in 2005, and the writer died in 2006. It recalls,...
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  • ISSN 0048-4474. JSTOR 40348734. Stoner: John Williams, introduction by John McGahern". Retail sales page for NYRB Classics. New York Review Books. Retrieved...
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  • Healy dies aged 66: He is as important a social commentator as John McGahern and John B Keane". Retrieved 30 June 2014. Adair, Tom (4 June 1994). "Tragic...
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  • McCoy (born 1962) John McGahern (1934–2006) Reginald McKnight (born 1956) Cormac McCarthy (born 1933) Annie Virginia McCracken (1868–1892?) Thomas McGuane...
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  • Mallon James G. March Martin McAleese Mary McAleese Neil V McCann John McGahern Paid McGee Peter McVerry George J. Mitchell John Francis Mitchell Stephen...
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  • literature, unlike his realist contemporaries such as Colm Tóibín or John McGahern. Terry Pender commented on At Swim, Two Boys: "With only this work O'Neill...
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    Awards, was the Waterstones Irish Book of the Year, and winner of the John McGahern Prize. The Guardian's reviewer described it as "a staggeringly humane...
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    of the 20th century, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, Maeve Binchy, Joseph O'Connor, Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, and John Banville came to the fore as novelists...
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  • Amongst Women by John McGahern (1990). Claire Armistead compiled complaints of no works by these authors: Edna O'Brien, William Trevor, John Banville, Colm...
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  • 2014) 1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader (d. 2017) 1934 – John McGahern, Irish author and educator (d. 2006) 1934 – Vavá, Brazilian footballer...
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    Secker and Waburg Ltd, (1983). Abridged and with an Introduction by John McGahern. (London): Faber, (1999). Raymond Keaveney (2002), National Gallery...
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    The Barracks (novel) (category Novels by John McGahern)
    The Barracks was the first novel by Irish writer John McGahern (1934-2006). Critically acclaimed when it was published in 1963, it won the AE Memorial...
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  • Corcaigh [Cork City] (2005) Domhnach in Éireann [Sunday in Ireland] (2005) John McGahern: A Private World (2005) David Marcus: A Conversation with Dermot Bolger...
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    John McGahern. In the late twentieth century, Irish poets, especially those from Northern Ireland, came to prominence including Derek Mahon, Medbh McGuckian...
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    (1890–1963) (real name John Weldon), whose 1918 The Valley of the Squinting Windows was the first novel in this genre, and John McGahern (1934 – 2006), whose...
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  • Patrick McCabe (born 1955) Colum McCann (born 1965) Barry McCrea (born 1974) John McGahern (1934–2006) Christina McKenna (born 1957) Adrian McKinty (born...
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  • Mathews (born 1956) Eugene McCabe (1930–2020) John McGahern (1934–2006) Janet McNeill (1907–1994) George McWhirter (born 1939) John Montague (1929–2016) George...
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  • of Peter Benchley, Octavia E. Butler, Betty Friedan, Naguib Mahfouz, John McGahern, Muriel Spark, Mickey Spillane, Wendy Wasserstein 2007 in literature...
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    Johnston, winner of the Whitbread Award 1991 - "Amongst Women", novel by John McGahern 2010 – The Soldier's Song, novel by Alan Monaghan 1926 – Irish Destiny...
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    Collection, the Brendan Duddy Papers on the Northern Ireland conflict, the John McGahern archive and the manuscript Minutes of Galway City Council from the 15th...
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    first broadcast as a guest on their BBC radio series[citation needed] John McGahern, writer, grew up near Boyle and the town is mentioned in several of...
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