John McGahern
John McGahern’s last book was Memoir (Faber/Knopf). His novels include The Barracks and Amongst Women (Faber/Penguin). He died in March 2006.
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Fiction | The Online Edition
Johnny
John McGahern
The Ruttledges saw Johnny resting in the shade of the alder tree at the gate,...
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
God and Me
John McGahern
‘I grew up in what was a theocracy in all but name.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Lanes
John McGahern
‘The soil in Leitrim is poor, in places no more than an inch deep.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Love of the World
John McGahern
It is very quiet here. Nothing much ever happens. We have learned to tell the...
Fiction | The Online Edition
Creatures of the Earth
John McGahern
‘They alone among all the creatures of the earth would never have to go that way.’