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O'Connor to receive Irish Pen prize from President
Irish Times 3 days ago

He added: “I’m also delighted because of the really great people who have won it before – some of my touchstones as a kid and as a writer, such as John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O’Brien and John B Keane. So, I feel it’s very over-generous to... Full Article at Irish Times
Seen from my sick bed, a scene straight out of The Singing Detective | Ian Jack
Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago

Pitilessly, life went on without you. Nobody cared. In his autobiography, the Irish writer John McGahern beautifully described this feeling of separateness, though in terms of the starker division between the healthy and the dying, rather than the... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
Gangs will rule as garda stations shut
Dublin Evening Herald 2 months ago

Maybe with an old patrol car out front in the day, more a monument than a policing tool, and an old sergeant eating a Kit-Kat -- like the ad.These stations haven't changed much since the days that writer John McGahern lived in one in Roscommon -- which... Full Article at Dublin Evening Herald
Auction results
Irish Times 2 months ago

Tomorrow: Dublin City Book Fair, Tara Towers Hotel, Merrion Road, Dublin 4, 11am-5pm. Thirty exhibitors offering antiquarian, rare and collectable books, as well as signed first editions by authors including Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Liam... Full Article at Irish Times
O'Connor to receive Irish PEN Award
RTE Interactive 2 months ago

Irish Literature O'Connor will receive the award at a ceremony in the Royal St George Yacht Club, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin on February 10 2012. Founded in 1921, PEN - which stands for poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists - is an... Full Article at RTE Interactive
Author John McGahern planted 'local project 'woodland
YouTube Videos 48 months ago
Arts vs politics: We haven't got the balance right
Irish Times 2 months ago

For most of independent Ireland’s existence, artists were viewed by the State as disruptive influences, to be reprimanded or censored rigorously. Naturally enough, this led to a jaundiced view of the body politic being held by writers from Flann... Full Article at Irish Times