Rural Ireland after the economic crash of 2008 has been the subject matter for two
contemporary Irish writers, Colin Barrett and Donal Ryan. Their respective works Young …

The most striking stylistic feature of John McGahern's second novel, The Dark is that the
narrative voice constantly shifts between the first, second, and third person, until in the …

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John McGahern's That They May Face the Rising Sun (2002), his last novel, conveys an
ultimately elegiac, incredibly compelling, and somewhat muted ecological vision of his own …

This technique is of course primarily suited to the forms of the poem and the short story.
Especially stories revolving around a Joycean epiphany are by necessity often founded on …

In his fifth novel, Amongst Women, John McGahern returns once more to the representation
of post independence disillusion that had already been a major theme in his first, The …

John McGahern's career spans the last f racks, appeared in 1963, and his most rece ing Sun
was published in 2002.1 Social com main concern, yet his work has consisten recesses of …

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of
the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind …

The Dark, a novel of an adolescent country boy, was first identified as a work worthy of
textual study by Paul Devine in 1979. 1 The narratological “pairing of characters and events” …

Is there such a thing as essential Irishness, something which can be encountered, on the
one hand, as affect, and standardised on the other by political economy? A considerable …