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Sunday Miscellany: McGahern Country, by Barry Houlihan

An archivist is transported into the imaginative world of John McGahern... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to McGahern Country, by Barry Houlihan above.

Twenty years ago, the writer John McGahern passed away. From his first published novel, The Barracks, in 1963, to his last book, Memoir published in 2005, just months before he died, much has been said and written about 'McGahern Country'...

a middle-aged John McGahern in work clothes, in a sheep pen in a farm shed bottle feeding a lamb (pic copyright of University of Galway archive)
John McGahern (Pic courtesy University of Galway Archive department)

This essay appeared on the programme of April 19th - listen back here

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