John Mcgahern

Željka Doljanin is Director of the University College Dublin Writing CentreMáire Doyle is a Lecturer in Creative Non-Fiction Writing at The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad), Dublin

• ‘The Woodpile’ (original poem) – Paula Meehan1 Introduction – Željka Doljanin and Máire Doyle2 X: A Quarterly Review and McGahern’s modernism – Tom Walker 3 John McGahern: landscape and the lost Republic – Nicholas Allen 4 Hand-rails to the past: McGahern and the memory of the Irish revolution – R. F. (Roy) Foster5 ‘What was it all for?’: John McGahern’s critique of Irish Republicanism: an ethical reading – Ciaran Ross 6 The stranger in the fiction of John McGahern – Željka Doljanin 7 John McGahern’s ‘Oldfashioned’ and Anglo-Irish culture – David Clare8 Learning to love the world: the educational vision of John McGahern – Kevin Williams9 Love and sex: McGahern’s personal and detached reflections – Tom Inglis 10 Love and the world: marriage and McGahern’s late vision – Máire Doyle 11 'Extraordinary breathing space': afterlife vision and redemption in the work of John McGahern – Catriona Clutterbuck 12 Writing violence: John McGahern and Flannery O’Connor – Frank McGuinness 13 The lived narrative versus the learned narrative – Linden MacIntyre 14 Inside McGahern’s workshop – Paula Meehan 15 John McGahern – Melvyn Bragg 16 An interview with John McGahern – Stanley van der ZielAfterword – Declan KiberdIndex

‘John McGahern: Authority and Vision is a publication that will undoubtedly appeal to students of literature and anyone with an interest in discovering that qualities that made McGahern one of Ireland’s foremost prose writers of the second half of the twentieth century. The collection is a credit to both the indefatigable work of the editors and the vision of Manchester University Press in seeing the value and interest of literary essays when they are written to the high standard one encounters in this volume.’Eamon Maher, The Irish Times, February 2018‘John McGahern: Authority and Vision is indeed a fine collection of essays that showcases a wide range of interests in the writer while offering some fresh insights.’Yen-Chi Wu, University College Cork, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 27, No. 2‘This is an exceptional volume of essays in many ways. That the editors, Zeljka Doljanin and Maire Doyle, managed to bring together the work of some of the finest contemporary writers is impressive. This edited volume of essays pays tribute to McGahern while deeply enriching our understanding of the man, the writer and the work.’Professor Deirdre Raftery, UCD, Sunday Independent, August 2019