First Publication Venues of Stories by John McGahern

    [ Source: Hardiman Library Catalogue of the Papers of John McGahern at University of Galway (UCG/NUI) - online. Only exceptionally are versions in Collected Stories or in Love of the World cited in this listing. ]

Nightlines (1970)  
“Coming into His Kingdom ” first publ. in Kilkenny Magazine 10 (Autumn-Winter 1963).
“Strandhill, The Sea” first publ. as “Summer at Strandhill”, in The New Yorker (21 September 1963); rep. with num. amendments as “Strandhill, The Sea” in The Irish Press (27 April 1968); rep. in New Irish Writers 1: An Anthology from 'The Irish Press' Series, ed. David Marcus (Dolmen Press 1970).
“Why We're Here” first publ. in The Cork Review: A Magazine of Poetry and Criticism (April 1968); rep. in Sunday Tribune (19 July 1981), Colour Supplement. [See also “‘Why We’re Here’: A Story”, in Cork Review, ed. Sean Dunne [‘Seán O Faoláin Special Issue’] 1991, pp.49-50.]
“Christmas”

first publ. in The Irish Press (27 April 1968).

“The Key”

first publ. as ”Bomb Box” in The Listener (25 December 1969); so printed in Nightlines (1970); amended version as ”The Key” in Collected Stories (1992).

“Korea”

first publ. in Atlantic Monthly (October 1969).

“Wheels” first publ. in Nightlines.
“Hearts of Oak and Bellies of Brass” first publ. in Nightlines.
“Lavin” first publ. in Nightlines.
“My Love, My Umbrella” first publ. in Nightlines (1970); rep. in Body and Soul: Irish Short Stories of Sexual Love ed. David Marcus (Poolbeg 1979).
“Peaches” first publ. in Nightlines; not incl. in Love of the World.
“The Recruiting Officer” first publ. in Nightlines; rep. in The Substance of Things Hoped For: Short Fiction by Modern Catholic Authors, ed. J. B. Breslin (Doubleday 1987).
   
Getting Through (1978)  
“Swallows”

first publ. in Evening Herald (20 December 1971); rep. in The London Magazine (December 1971-January 1972); also in The London Magazine, 1961-85, ed. Alan Ross (Chatto & Windus in 1986).

“The Beginning of an Idea”

first publ. in The New Review (August 1974); rep. in The New Review Anthology ed. Ian Hamilton (Heinemann 1985); The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories ed. William Trevor (OUP 1989). Not included in Love of the World.

“The Stoat” First publ. in unidentified journal (photocopy).
“A Slip-up” First publ. in Strand (June 1975); rep. in Ploughshares III (1977); rep. in The Leitrim Guardian, 10 (1978).
“Faith, Hope and Charity”

First publ. in The New Review (October 1975); rep. in The Irish Press (20 November 1976).

“All Sorts of Impossible Things” First publ. in Encounter (6 December 1975); rep. in The Irish Press (8 May 1976); Ploughshares 6 (1980); Best Irish Short Stories ed. David Marcus (Paul Elek 1976); Modern Irish Short Stories, ed. Ben Forkner (Viking/Penguin 1980); and The Ploughshares Reader: New Fiction for the Eighties, ed. Dewitt Henry (Pushcart Press 1985).
“The Wine Breath” First publ. in The New Yorker (4 April 1977); rep. in in The Bodley Head Book of Irish Short Stories, ed. David Marcus (Lane 1980); also in Irish Short Stories (NEL 1982).
“Sierra Leone” First publ. in The New Yorker (22 August 1977); revised for Getting Through.
“Doorways” First publ. in Getting Through.
“Along the Edges” First publ. in Getting Through.
“Gold Watch” First publ. in The New Yorker (17 March 1980); also in US edition of Getting Through (Harper & Row 1980) and British edition of High Ground (Faber 1985).
   
High Ground (1985)  
“High Ground” First publ. in The New Yorker (22 March 1982).
“Parachutes”

First publ. in Encounter (February 1983); rep. in The Irish Press (14 April 1983) and The Irish Literary Supplement [Boston College] (Spring 1984).

“Crossing the Line”

First publ. in The New Yorker (1 August 1983); rep. in Modern Irish Short Stories, ed. Caroline Walsh (The Irish Times 1986).

“A Ballad”

First publ. in Ireland and the Arts, ed. Tim Pat Coogan (Quartet 1983).

“Oldfashioned” First publ. in The Yale Review (April 1984); rep. in Threshold (Winter 1983/1984).
“Eddie Mac” First publ. in The New Yorker (3 December 1984); rep. in The Irish Press (8 March 1985).
“Like All Other Men” First publ. in The Yale Review (April 1985); rep. in Firebird 4: New Writing from Britain and Ireland (Penguin 1985).
“Bank Holiday” First publ. in The Irish Times (9 August 1985)
“The Conversion of William Kirkwood” First publ. in High Ground.
   
Collected Stories (1992)  
“The Creamery Manager” First publ. in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (July 1991).
“The Country Funeral” Rep. in The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction ed. Colm Tóibín (Penguin 2001).
   
The Creatures of the Earth (2006)  
“Love of the World”

First publ. in Granta: The Magazine of New Writing (Autumn 1997); broadcast on BBC3 [”Spirit of the Place” ser.] (25 May 1997).

Others  
“The White Boat”

First publ. in New Writing 6: An Anthology, ed. A.S. Byatt & Peter Porter (Vintage 1997). [Not incl. in Creatures of the Earth].