BOOK: John McGahern – Ways of Looking

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

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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