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 (book) (redirect from The Pornographer 1979 Book by John McGahern)
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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Michael Magee (writer) (category Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University)
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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