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John McGahern. Joseph John Kelly, born on 07 January 1964 at Dulwich Hospital, London. 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 of the twentieth century.
John McGahern (born November 12, 1934, Dublin, Ireland—died March 30, 2006, Dublin) was an Irish novelist and short-story writer known for his depictions of Irish men and women constricted and damaged by the conventions of their native land. McGahern was the son of a policeman who had once been a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
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Mar 31, 2006 · John McGahern, the eldest of seven children, was born on Nov. 12, 1934, in Dublin. His mother died when he was 10. Though his father and some of his characters were unhappy former I.R.A ...
Jun 8, 2010 · John McGahern struggled for 10 years to write the novel Amongst Women. Fellow Irish author Colm Toibin says it was worth the wait: The pacing of the novel is masterly, he says, and its rhythms are ...
Jul 18, 2024 · The High Irish Style. John McGahern sought formality and distance in his prose, but his masterful novels were always underpinned by the difficult realities of his own life. John McGahern, the preeminent Irish writer of his generation, was best known for his rural writings. Much of his work was set in the counties of Leitrim and Roscommon, the ...
Mar 2, 2023 · The James Bond story was kept off the top spot by a debut novel from a new Irish writer – The Barracks by John McGahern. Published 60 years ago this year, The Barracks confirmed McGahern’s ...
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Apr 7, 2022 · John McGahern was born in County Leitrim in the northwest of Ireland in 1934, the eldest son of a police sergeant and the village schoolteacher. He was of the same generation, broadly speaking, as Heaney, the playwright Brian Friel, and the poet and critic Seamus Deane, who were growing up on the other side of the newly constituted Irish border ...
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