The aim of this paper is to offer an in-depth analysis of John McGahern's critical statements
on the Irish society of the mid 1960s. This is carried out by combining the notions of mind …

They seem to have been needled into apostasy by a Christianity which at that time...
appeared to be extremely philistine, anti-intellectual, disciplinarian and, above all, anti …

John McGahern (1934–2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such
windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from …

This essay argues that an assessment of the Beckettian qualities of McGahern's work should
take into account the recent scholarship which has explored Beckett's absorption in …

In the 2005 documentary A Private World, John McGahern described a section from his
1990 novel Amongst Women where the main character, Moran, reflects on the passing of …

This research focuses on changing religious values in Ireland. It examines the rise in
secularism and the rapid decrease in church participation. The role that media may have …

This dissertation examines how the modern Irish novel negotiates shifting cultural
conceptions of death and dying across the twentieth century. Analyzing a cross-section of …

Critical analysis of the representation of shame in modern Irish fiction is noticeable only by
its relative absence from the field. Indeed, there is a marked scarcity of scholarship that even …

John McGahern gained sudden popularity when his second novel, The Dark, was banned in
Ireland shortly after its publication in 1965. This ban was no surprise, considering …