"That They May Face The Rising Sun," the film adaptation of John McGahern's award-winning novel of the same name is expected to hit theaters early next year. The trailer for the upcoming movie, ...

My own admiration for John McGahern goes back to 1990 when I was an undergraduate at University College Galway and read one of his greatest short stories, Gold Watch, as part of a course on Irish ...

On some rare occasions, creative writers have the good fortune to find literary critics capable of unveiling hitherto hidden and essential facets of their work. This masterful study of John McGahern ...

"That They May Face the Rising Sun” by John McGahern is the September 2024 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and ...

Marese McDonagh takes in the local landmarks that shaped John McGahern's books, ahead of next week's international seminar on the writer Photography: Brian Farrell An elderly man fills petrol outside ...

John McGahern, the writer known for semi-autobiographical portraits of rural life and widely praised as one of Ireland's great modern novelists, died of cancer Thursday, his family and friends said.

A child writes: “Dear Daddy . . . I hope you are well. . . . We got two goats. Uncle Pat does not like them.” A farmer reports that “all the hay is in. Most of the lambs are sold.” A schoolteacher ...

DUBLIN, Ireland — John McGahern, the writer known for semi-autobiographical portraits of rural life and widely praised as one of Ireland’s great modern novelists, died of cancer Thursday at a Dublin ...

John McGahern, the Irish novelist who died yesterday aged 71, drew on his own experience, exploring a rural community and landscape with such honesty and unsentimental candour that he earned ...