John Mcgahern

Željka Doljanin is Director of the University College Dublin Writing Centre Máire Doyle is a Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction Writing at The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad), Dublin -- .

‘The Woodpile’ (original poem) – Paula Meehan
1 Introduction – Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle
2 X: A Quarterly Review and McGahern’s modernism – Tom Walker
3 John McGahern: landscape and the lost Republic – Nicholas Allen
4 Hand-rails to the past: McGahern and the memory of the Irish revolution – R. F. (Roy) Foster
5 ‘What was it all for?’: John McGahern’s critique of Irish Republicanism: an ethical reading – Ciaran Ross
6 The stranger in the fiction of John McGahern – Željka Doljanin
7 John McGahern’s ‘Oldfashioned’ and Anglo-Irish culture – David Clare
8 Learning to love the world: the educational vision of John McGahern – Kevin Williams
9 Love and sex: McGahern’s personal and detached reflections – Tom Inglis
10 Love and the world: marriage and McGahern’s late vision – Máire Doyle
11 'Extraordinary breathing space': afterlife vision and redemption in the work of John McGahern – Catriona Clutterbuck
12 Writing violence: John McGahern and Flannery O’Connor – Frank McGuinness
13 The lived narrative versus the learned narrative – Linden MacIntyre
14 Inside McGahern’s workshop – Paula Meehan
15 John McGahern – Melvyn Bragg
16 An interview with John McGahern – Stanley van der Ziel
Afterword – Declan Kiberd
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