John McGahern

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Name: John McGahern

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First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 20 2012 - 1 Documents

That they may face the beauty of Leitrim...

The landscape of Leitrim and Roscommon so permeates the novels and short stories of John McGahern that it becomes almost a human character in his books. It's fitting, then, that this year's John McGahern Seminar should take landscape and the environment ... [ Published May 20 2012 by Irish Independent ]

Entities: John McGahern, William Skidelsky, Diarmaid Ferriter, Yiyun Li

First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 20 2012 - 1 Documents

Ballinamore writers in new cross border book

Two Ballinamore writers are included in the newly published 'Tuesdays at Charlies' collection of short stories and poetry by the Fermanagh Creative Writing Group.Two Ballinamore writers will be published in a new book ‘Tuesdays at Charlies’ a collection ... [ Published May 20 2012 by Leitrim Observer ]

Entities: John McGahern, Charlies, DBC Pierre, Keith Baker, Kevin Barry

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Peter Costello

Books: Soul searching in Spain - Peter Costello

A Pilgrim in Spain(Continuum, 22.45 / £16.99)Peter CostelloAs Chaucer observes at the opening of his great poem, in spring time peoples minds turn to thoughts of making a pilgrimage. These days, for many Irish people, this means taking the way of St James, ... [ Published May 10 2012 by Irish Catholic ]

Entities: John McGahern, Peter Costello, Spain

First Reported Apr 27 2012 - Updated Apr 27 2012 - 1 Documents

Can we put a roof over Carrick? - Plenty of enthusiasm for Carrick 400 celebrations

Clear your calendar for next year, because 2013 is going to be 12 months of epic celebration in Carrick-on-Shannon.The county town is preparing to celebrate 400 years in existence and if the number of ideas, along with the level of enthusiasm and excitement ... [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Leitrim Observer ]

Entities: John McGahern, Famine, Chamber of Commerce

First Reported Apr 24 2012 - Updated Apr 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Book lover: Gordon McLauchlan

Gordon McLauchlan is a journalist and writer who has recently published The Passionless People Revisited (David Bateman, $29.99).The book I love most is ... two linger in my heart and mind. I recall travelling from Christchurch to Dunedin in 1949 and ... [ Published Apr 24 2012 by New Zealand Herald ]

Entities: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Oscar Williams, John McGahern

First Reported Apr 22 2012 - Updated Apr 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Jonathan Yardley

Note to self: re-read and be damned

Two literary studies have just been published on the pleasures and perils of returning to books that meant a lot -- or, indeed, very little -- on first encounter.In On Rereading (Belknap), Patricia Meyer Spacks says of JD Salinger's The Catcher in the ... [ Published Apr 22 2012 by Irish Independent ]

Entities: Jonathan Yardley, John McGahern, John Banville

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That they may face the beauty of Leitrim... [ Published May 20 2012 by Irish Independent ]
Ballinamore writers in new cross border book [ Published May 20 2012 by Leitrim Observer ]
The Blagger's Guide To: Michael Frayn [ Published May 20 2012 by The Independent ]
Books: Soul searching in Spain - Peter Costello [ Published May 10 2012 by Irish Catholic ]
Can we put a roof over Carrick? - Plenty of ent... [ Published Apr 27 2012 by Leitrim Observer ]
Book lover: Gordon McLauchlan [ Published Apr 24 2012 by New Zealand Herald ]
Note to self: re-read and be damned [ Published Apr 22 2012 by Irish Independent ]
David Park: a life in books [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Love and Death on the Western Front [ Published Jan 22 2012 by RTE Online ]