7/3/2023 0 Comments John mcgahern amongst![]() ![]() Dublin's Catholic archbishop of the time was John Charles McQuaid, whose influence brooked no democratic or "cultural" opposition.Īs a demonstration of force, the archbishop suborned the Teachers' Union, leaving the young writer-teacher stranded. ![]() The book was banned by the state, and the teaching job was scuttled by an even crasser Church. ![]() In the mid-1960s, when he was a primary school teacher in north Dublin, publication of The Dark, with its simple descriptions of sexual ignorance and improvised relief, proved too much for the terrible twins of Irish authoritarianism. There were other novels - The Dark (1965), The Leavetaking (1974) and The Pornographer (1980). What happened in childhood, in young manhood, was the stuff of McGahern's work, from the earliest novel (The Barracks, 1963), through a series of short-story volumes, to the two last novels, Amongst Women (1990) and That They May Face the Rising Sun (2002). His mother, whom he adored, was a teacher, shortly to die of cancer. His father, a policeman, had been active in the IRA during the war of independence. He was born in Dublin in 1934, the only boy in a family of six children. ![]()
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