John McGahern Bibliography and links

Books and journal articles about the writings of John McGahern:

BROWN, Terence. "Redeeming the Time: John McGahern and John Banville." The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 225-38. ISBN 0-521-13652-0. 

Donoghue, Denis, Irish Essays, Cambridge University Press 2011 (includes a chapter on McGahern.

Kiberd, Declan, Fallen Nobility: The World of John McGahern, Irish University Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Special Issue: John McGahern (Spring - Summer, 2005), pp. 164-174, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25517247

McGahern, John, The Image, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 17, No. 1, Special Issue on John McGahern (Jul., 1991), p. 12, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25512847 

Maher, Eamon, Circles and Circularity in the Writings of John McGahern, Nordic Irish Studies, Vol. 4, (2005), pp. 157-166, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001526

Maher, Eamon, John McGahern: from the local to the universal, Liffey Press, 2003 Maher, Eamon, "The Church and its Spire":John McGahern and the Catholic Question, Dublin 2007. Malcolm, David, Understanding John McGahern, University of South Carolina Press, 2007 Sampson, Denis, 'Open to the World': A Reading of John McGahern's "That They May Face the Rising Sun", Irish University Review, Vol. 35, No. 1, Special Issue: John McGahern (Spring - Summer, 2005), pp. 136-146, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25517245

Sampson, Denis, Young John McGahern: Becoming a novelist, Oxford University Publishing 2012.

van der Ziel, Stanley, The Aesthetics of Redemption: John Mc Gahern's "That They May Face the Rising Sun", Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, Vol. 93, No. 372 (Winter, 2004), pp. 473-486, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30095720

 

Other links

Three Days of Summer - a documentary film on McGahern

Wikipedia entry

Interviewed (2004) by Hermione Lee - hosted by Lannan Foundation, includes transcript and downloadable audio file

Interviewed by Ramona Koval (2002) - An ABC program, includes downloadable audio file

Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature - Entry by Eamon Maher

 

 

Comments

[Brendan Ryan]

Hi Trevor, I came across your blog in research on Cootehall. I too, am a McGahern fan and have read his works with much enjoyment over the past few years. When were you in Leitrim? I was there this year with my family in August, as well. We were staying down the south in Ballyferriter for five weeks but I spent a great day driving around Fenagh, Ballinamore, Lisacarn etc. We stayed at Lough Rynn, went to the Mohill Show, also saw the site of where the house was that was dismantledas his mother lay upstairs dying. I'm writing an essay about fathers in his fiction, and of course having another good look at Memoir. Thanks for the biblio. on his writings, as I will have a look at the journals. Glad to see that you also like Claire Keegan. She was a real discovery for us this year.

Cheers

Brendan Ryan

[Trevor Cook]

Hi Brendan - I was in Ballinamore for just a few days in late Aug as part of a longer trip visiting my daughter in Dublin before visiting a few places in Europe. I hope to return to Leitrim for a longer visit this year or next. I hope this bibliography proves helpful and if you see any extra articles etc I should add do let me know. And, of course, I'd love to see your essay in due course. Regards Trevor