Browsing by Subject "McGahern"

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    • Ireland, Modernity and the Question of Definition 

      O'Brien, Eugene (The Journal of Music in Ireland, 2003)
      This essay is an exploration of the notion of modernity, and its relationship with tradition. It is a response to John Waters’ article on modernity entitles ‘Reactionary Progressives’. I will respond to the article in ...

    • John McGahern's 'Oldfashioned' and Anglo-Irish culture (Pre-published version) 

      Clare, David (Manchester University Press, 2017)
      In John McGahern’s 1985 short story ‘Oldfashioned’, he ably demonstrates why a sensitive, bookish, Catholic young man raised in the repressive, anti-intellectual Irish Free State might be attracted to the way of life being ...