Tag: John McGahern

NEW BOOK: The Dark John McGahern – A Critical Edition

IASIL Bibliography, New Publications

Edited by Anna Teekell, Ellen Scheible | Syracuse University Press Bringing John McGahern’s 1965 masterpiece back into print in the United States after years of inaccessibility, this new sixtieth-anniversary critical edition includes an introduction aimed at first-time readers, explanatory footnotes, McGahern’s own glossary, and four scholarly essays aimed at guiding readers through the novel’s famously controversial history. While the text

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EXHIBITION: Photographs and Archives of McGahern Country

Events, General News

A Deep Well of Want: Photographs and Archives of McGahern Country – A New Exhibition Event: Exhibition Opening as part of Cúirt Festival 2024 Date: 24th April Time: 4pm-5pm Venue: Room G10, Hardiman Building, University of Galway Q and A discussion with the curators, moderated by Professor Tom Inglis (McGahern Barracks Museum) This new exhibition of photographs by Paul Butler documents

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BOOK: John McGahern – Ways of Looking

General News, New Publications

John Singleton Routledge, 2023 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 being static, the artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s artistic and poetic vision – his ‘ways of looking’, examining

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PhD Scholarship. Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of John McGahern’s Leitrim – TU Dublin

Position Openings and Fellowships, Programmes and Courses, Scholarships and Grants

Eamon Maher, Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies, has been given a TU Dublin Scholarship to recruit a PhD student who will work on the general theme of Cultural Tourism: A Case Study of John McGahern’s Leitrim.   Dr Eugene O’Brien, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick will co-supervise the project with Professor Maher, and their joint expertise on the theory of space/place will undoubtedly prove a big advantage to

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