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This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an event which sparked something akin to a period of national mourning in Ireland. The reason why so many people felt his loss so keenly is probably due to the fact that McGahern's attention to detail, his feel for landscape, his understanding of the Irish psyche, his carefully chiselled prose, his love of
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- Author
- Hand (editor), Maher (editor)
- Publisher
- CUP Cork University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781782053293
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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