Summary
There is nothing dramatic about McGahern's accounts of such frightfulness, and no outright condemnation either. He rejects the violence of his father and the Church, but "religion and religious imagery were part of the air we breathed".
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Old Irish Ways
Old Irish ways Memoir John McGahern Faber & Faber, 272pp, £16.99
John McGahern has always been a mesmerising writer of fiction. His ravishing Memoir discloses the source of his genius, telling the story of a little boy an...See the full content of this document
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