John McGahern Companion

Eamon Maher is Joint PI of the Centre for Irish Studies in TU Dublin and has published two monographs and several newspaper and journal articles on various aspects of the work of John McGahern. Kathleen Costello-Sullivan is the Mary A. Carroll Endowed Professor in Arts and Sciences at Le Moyne College.  She has published articles on 19th-21st century Irish fiction; two monographs; two critical editions, and a co-edited collection on Irish-American history with Cian McMahon. Derek Hand is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, DCU. He has published widely on Irish writing and the Irish novel in particular. Barry Houlihan is an Archivist at University of Galway and works on literary and cultural archives including the John McGahern archive. He is the author of monographs and editor of books and journals on Irish literary and cultural heritage, curator of various touring exhibitions, and is a contributor to RTÉ Brainstorm and wider Irish media.

• List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Part I Towards an Assessment of McGahern’s Legacy - Chapter 1 Mapping McGahern Studies: Walking the Lanes from Sampson to Singleton, Seamus O’Kane - Chapter 2 Reading John McGahern as an Ethical Adventure, Anne Goarzin - Chapter 3 ‘after McGahern’: Reconsidering McGahern’s Literary Afterlives, Yen-Chi Wu - Part II Dark Beginnings and Experimentation - Chapter 4 ‘The struggle was not his struggle nor the words’: Textual, Intratextual and Extratextual Narration of The Dark, Jane Elizabeth Dougherty - Chapter 5 ‘There were certain things that could not be touched on’: McGahern’s The Dark, Censorship and Public Debate Concerning Family and Child Abuse in 1960s Ireland, Rachel Kelly - Chapter 6 Masculinity in the age of pre-and post-Independence Ireland in the Fiction of John McGahern, Sylvie Mikowski - Chapter 7 ‘brutal experiment’: The Making and Remaking of The Leavetaking, Brian Fox - Chapter 8 Holding the Fracture: Exposure and Form in The Leavetaking, The Pornographer and McGahern’s Urban Fictions, John Singleton - Part III McGahern on Film - Chapter 9 The Politics of Cathal Black’s Film Adaptation of John McGahern’s Korea, David Clare and Ciara Moloney - Chapter 10 That They May Face the Rising Sun: Adaptation and New Imaginaries, Pat Brereton - Chapter 11 Losing the Plot, Éamon Little and Conor O’Callaghan - Part IV Late McGahern - Chapter 12 ‘Being-in-the-World’: The Late Style of John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun, Eugene O’Brien - Chapter 13 Difference and Repetition: Personal Landscapes, Social History and the Archaeology of Feeling in John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun and Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship, Claudia Luppino - Chapter 14 Rowan Berries and Darting Swifts: John McGahern Gives Voice to the Non-Human, Eamonn Wall - Chapter 15 ‘Lambs Bleating for their Mothers’: Eulogy and Tonal Dissonance in John McGahern’s Memoir, Kathleen Costello-Sullivan - Chapter 16 ‘Getting the prose right’: Insights from McGahern’s Essays and Letters, Eamon Maher - Chapter 17 The Moral Climate and Fear of Famine – An Archival Reading of McGahern’s The Power of Darkness, Barry Houlihan - Notes on Contributors - Index