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The Rituals Of Food And Drink In The Work Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
The Rituals Of Food And Drink In The Work Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher
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John McGahern (1934–2006) was a writer with a keen sense of place. His novels and short stories are mainly set in the northwest midland counties of Leitrim and Roscommon and they bring to life a vast array of characters and situations that provide invaluable insights in relation to what it was like to live in traditional rural Ireland during the middle and later decades of the last century. Religion, the land, complex familial relations, emigration, the dancehall phenomenon, sexual abuse in the home, all these issues are courageously broached and realistically presented. McGahern’s stark portrayals also attracted the unwanted attentions …
Representations Of Catholicism In The Twentieth-Century Irish Novel, Eamon Maher
Representations Of Catholicism In The Twentieth-Century Irish Novel, Eamon Maher
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John Mcgahern: From The Local To The Universal, Eamon Maher
John Mcgahern: From The Local To The Universal, Eamon Maher
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John McGahern has distinguished himself as one of Ireland's finest living novelists and short story writers with such works as The Pornographer, The Barracks, Amongst Women, and the controversial The Dark, which was banned in Ireland. His latest novel, By the Lake, earned him much critical acclaim, and he was one of only four recipients of a 2003 Lannan Literary Award. In this comprehensive guide to the fiction of John McGahern, Eamon Maher argues that in his themes, scenes, scenarios, and characters, which on the surface seem to originate from a limited source--the local--we can …