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The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings Review: Good But Not Great, Eamon Maher
The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings Review: Good But Not Great, Eamon Maher
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John McGahern is rightly renowned for his carefully crafted prose, his skill at describing characters and situations that have a universal resonance and his uncannily accurate representation of the people and places associated with his native Roscommon and Leitrim. Author of six novels, two short story collections (many of which were brought together in The Collected Stories and the posthumously published Creatures of the Earth, which contains significant new material) and a highly successful memoir, McGahern won several literary prizes and warm critical acclaim. Faber has now brought out a collection of his dramatic writings, a genre in which, …
John Mcgahern : Priceless Insights Into His Art, Eamon Maher
John Mcgahern : Priceless Insights Into His Art, Eamon Maher
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John McGahern has been the subject of a number of monographs in recent years, but this is the first essay collection dedicated to his work since the three volumes of NUI Galway’s The John McGahern Yearbook, edited by John Kenny, and the critical essays assembled by Mullen, Bargroff and Mullen in a Peter Lang publication from 2013.
The Half-Life And Death Of The Irish Catholic Novel : In A Country Renowned For Its Catholicism, It Is Unusual The ‘Catholic Novel’ Never Took Root, Eamon Maher
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In Underground Cathedrals (2010), the Glenstal monk and author Mark Patrick Hederman described artists as the “secret agents” of the Holy Spirit: “Art has the imagination to sketch out the possible. When this happens something entirely new comes into the world. Often it is not recognised for what it is and is rejected or vilified by those who are comfortable with what is already there and afraid of whatever might unsettle the status quo”. Reflecting on this position, one wonders to what extent Irish novelists have fulfilled the important role outlined by Hederman. In the past, they definitely did offer …
John Mcgahern And The Imagination Of Tradition By Stanley Van Der Ziel Review, Eamon Maher
John Mcgahern And The Imagination Of Tradition By Stanley Van Der Ziel Review, Eamon Maher
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Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
Rendering That Darkness At The Heart Of Priesthood : The Strangled Impulse By William King, Eamon Maher
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Eamon Maher On Jean Sulivan, Eamon Maher
How Different Are The Irish?, Eamon Maher
How Different Are The Irish?, Eamon Maher
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THIS review-article sets about assessing the significance of a new collection of essays edited by Tom Inglis, Are the Irish Different?1 Tom Inglis is the foremost commentator on the factors that led to the Catholic Church in Ireland securing a 'special position' during the ninetenth and twentieth centuries.2 The Church's 'moral monopoly' has effectively been ceroded by a number of recent developments; the increased secularisation that accompanied greater prosperity, the tendency among a better educated laity to find their own answers to whatever moral dilemmas assail them, and, of course, the clerical abuse scandals. But even in the 1980s, and …
A Catholic Childhood In Philadelphia, Eamon Maher
A Catholic Childhood In Philadelphia, Eamon Maher
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Belfast: The Far From Sublime City In Brian Moore's Early Novels, Eamon Maher
Belfast: The Far From Sublime City In Brian Moore's Early Novels, Eamon Maher
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