The Leavetaking recounts a young couple’s struggle to overcome the suffocating influence of the church in order to find happiness in a fulfilling adult love.

Three brothers travel west from Dublin to Gloria Bog - the heart of the territory where so many of McGahern’s stories take place - to attend the funeral of their…

Challenging assumptions about John McGahern as an old-fashioned realist, this study confirms him as a writer dramatically engaged with the impact of progress on tradition –

John McGahern (1934-2006) has been widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Irish prose writers of the twentieth and the early twenty-first century. McGahern has traditionally been regarded as a…

From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.

McGahern describes his early years as one…

This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006…

This is a Biography of John McGahern, Irish writer and novelist. McGagern is regarded as one of the most important writers of the latter half of the twentieth century and…