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Scoop.it!
Emergingwriter blogs about writing mainly in Ireland. Kate Dempsey writes short stories, poetry and prose and runs the Poetry Divas. 
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Scoop.it!
ONE morning 50 years ago I caught a plane to London to talk to John McGahern. His novel, ‘The Dark’, had been banned by the Censorship of Publications Board and he was in the UK because
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Returning over and over again to the same territory, these bleak but beautiful stories build into a complete fictional worldDuring his lifetime John McGahern was frequently called Ireland's Chekhov.
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Internationally renowned playwright, Marina Carr, will take up her position this semester as The John McGahern Joint Writer in Residence at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra and Dublin City University. The residency will be centred in the Department of English, St Patrick’s College and the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University. Described as ‘one of the most powerful, haunting voices on the contemporary Irish stage’ (Leeney, McMullan 2003: xv), Carr’s work includes By the Bog of Cats, The Mai, Portia Coughlan, Woman and Scarecrow, The Cordelia Dream, and 16 Possible Glimpses
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This volume is a collaborative reassessment of the writing of John McGahern. The contributors provide provocative readings of his major works and also examine some of his lesser-known short stories...
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