John McGahern

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born

November 12, 1934 in Dublin, Ireland

died

March 30, 2006

gender

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Literature & Fiction

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McGahern began his career as a schoolteacher at Scoil Eoin Báiste (Belgrove) primary school in Clontarf, Ireland, where, for a period, he taught the eminent academic Declan Kiberd before turning to writing full-time.
McGahern's novel 'The Dark' was banned in Ireland for its alleged pornographic content and implied clerical sexual abuse. In the controversy over this he was forced to resign his teaching post. He subsequently moved to England where he worked in a variety of jobs before returning to Ireland to live and work on a small farm in Fenagh in County Leitrim, located halfway between Ballinamore and Mohill.
He died from cancer in Dublin on March 30, 2006.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 1,663 ratings · 222 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Amongst Women 3.83 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 1990 — 15 editions	My rating:
	That They May Face The Rising Sun 3.91 avg rating — 403 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Dark 3.82 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1965 — 7 editions	My rating:
	All Will Be Well: A Memoir 4.01 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Barracks 3.65 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Collected Stories 4.28 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Pornographer 3.76 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1980 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Leavetaking 3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Creatures Of The Earth: New And Selected Stories 4.11 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	High Ground: Stories 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in.”
― John McGahern, The Dark

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“For the girls the regular comings and goings restored their superior sense of self, a superiority they had received intact from Moran and which was little acknowledged by the wide world in which they had to work and live. That unexplained notion of superiority was often badly shaken and in need of restoration by the time they came home.”
― John McGahern, Amongst Women

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