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• Anon., ‘Art of Fiction’, in Bath Chronicle (10 March 2003), Books, p.8.
• Anon., ‘John McGahern Interviewed’, in The University Observer [University College, Dublin] 5, 11 (14 April 1999).
• Anon., ‘Real Writing’s a Hard Draft’, in Irish Independent (7 June 1991), p.8 [McGahern has finished 4th draft of The Pornographer screenplay for BBC TV].
• Eileen Battersby, ‘Less Risk-Taking, More the Real Truth’, in Sunday Tribune (6 May 1990), People, p.4.
• Clare Boylan, ‘John McGahern: Evicting the Ghosts from His Imagination on to the Pages of His Stories’, in Sunday Tribune (31 October 1993), People, p.11.
• Sarah Caden, ‘The Laughing Boy from Leitrim’, in Sunday Independent (17 May 1998), pp.11.
• Mary Campbell, ‘Country Living’, in The Leitrim Guardian: Leitrim’s Annual County Magazine, 23 (1991), pp.45-47.
• Julia Carlson, ‘John McGahern’ [interview], in Banned in Ireland: Censorship and the Irish Writer, ed. Carlson (London: Routledge 1990), pp.53-68.
• Ciaran Carty, ‘John McGahern: “It Would Be an Insult to Be Called an Irish Writer”’, in Sunday Independent (11 June 1978), pp.29.
• Ciaran Carty, ‘Out Of the Dark’, in Sunday Tribune (6 Sept. 1987), pp.18.
• Ciaran Carty, ‘Sex, Ignorance and the Irish - Interview: John McGahern, Playwright and Film-Maker’, in Sunday Tribune (29 Sept. 1991), pp.27.
• Paul Clements, ‘The Book and Magazine Collector Interview: John McGahern’, in Book and Magazine Collector, 208 (July 2001), pp.80-89.
• Lynn Cline, ‘Happiness Is When Nothing Happens’, in The Santa Fe New Mexican (2 April 2004), p.14.
• Will Cohu, Profile of John McGahern, in The Daily Telegraph (15 Jan. 2002), p.19.
• Linda Collinge, Ben Forkner, Liliane Louvel, John Paine, Jacques Sohier & Emmanuel Vernadakis, ‘John McGahern, b.1934’ [interview], in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 41 [20th Anniversary Issue] (Autumn 2003), pp.123-41.
• Bruce Cook, ‘Irish Censorship: The Case of John McGahern’, in Catholic World, 206 (January 1968), pp.176-79.
• Kevin Dawson, ‘Master of Solitude’, in Sunday Tribune (9 Sept. 1990), p.16.
• Patricia Deevy, ‘A Light in the Darkness’, in Sunday Independent (30 December 2001), Living p.4.
• Willie Dillon, ‘Were They Really the Good Old Days Back in 1979? - “Some Sections of Community Are Less Tolerant”, John McGahern’, in Irish Independent (25 Sept. 2004), Weekend Review, p.5.
• Mary Downey, ‘Unbearable Darkness of Being’, in Sunday Independent (6 May 1990), Living & Leisure, pp.25-26.
• John Dunne, ‘John McGahern: Author of Amongst Women’, in Book and Magazine Collector, 174 (September 1998), pp.54-59.
• Patrick Godon, Interview, in Scrivener: A Literary Magazine [Montreal] 5 (Summer 1984), pp.25-26.
• Rosa Gonzalez, ‘An Interview With John McGahern’, in European English Messenger, 4, 1 (Spring 1995), pp.17-23; rep. in Bells, 6 (1995), pp.173-81; rep. in Ireland in Writing: Interviews with Writers and Academics, ed. Jacqueline Hurtley, Rosa Gonzalez, Ines Praga, and Esther Aliaga (Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi 1998), pp.37-50.
• Linda Grant, ‘Private Isle’, in Independent on Sunday (11 October 1992) [q.p.].
• James Hardy, ‘Tearing the Walls Down’, in The Daily Yomiuri [Tokyo] (12 Dec. 2004), pp.18.
• Grace Heneghan, ‘In the Family: Novel Experiences’, in The Garda Journal: The Lifestyle and Leisure Magazine for the Gardai: The Journal of the International Police Association, “Ireland Section” (Nov. 1995), pp.34-38.
• Cathy Herbert, ‘Window On the World’, in Magill, 10, 13 (Oct. 1987), pp.56-62.
• Kim Heron, ‘Words Don’t Pay’, in The New York Times Book Review (8 February 1987), pp.9.
• Joe Jackson, ‘Tales From the Darkside’, in Hot Press (14 Nov. 1991), pp.18-20.
• Fred Johnston, ‘John McGahern at Fifty’, in The Irish Times (13 Aug. 1985), pp.10.
• Joe Joyce, ‘Fiction Farmer’, in The Guardian (26 April 1990), p.25.
• Maeve Joyce, ‘A Man Amongst Women’, in Galway Observer (19 March 1992), pp.6.
• Gerd Kampen, ‘An Interview With John McGahern’: Appendix to Zwischen Welt und Text: Narratologische Studien zum irischen Gegenwartsroman am Beispiel von John McGahern und John Banville (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002), pp.336-42.
• Shirley Kelly, ‘The Writing Keeps the Cattle in High Style’, in Books Ireland, 246 (February 2002), pp.5-6.
• Eileen Kennedy, ‘Q & A with John McGahern’, in Irish Literary Supplement, 3, 1 (Spring 1984), p.40; rep. in Writing Irish: Selected Interviews with Irish Writers from the Irish Literary Supplement, ed. James P. Myers, Jr. (NY: Syracuse Univ. Press 1999), pp.3-9.
• Joe Kennedy, ‘McGahern: “Art Is a Luxury”: An Interview With the Author of The Dark’, in Evening Herald (11 Nov. 1970), pp.7.
• Brian Lavery, ‘From Rural Ireland, Prose Carved With Precise Simplicity’, in The New York Times (1 May 2003), E1, p.6.
• Vincent Lawrence, ‘McGahern Happy It’ll Be All Right On the Night’, in Sunday Press (6 Oct. 1991), Living, p.3.
• Henri Lefebvre, ‘Entretien avec John McGahern’, in translated by Olivier Bervialle, L’OEil-de-boeuf: Revue litteraire trimestrielle 9-10 (May 1996), pp.39-43.
• Liliane Louvel, Gilles Menegaldo & Claudine Verley, ‘John McGahern - 17 November 1993’, in an interview, in La Licorne 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.19-31.
• Audrey L. Lynch, ‘An Interview With John McGahern’, in Books Ireland, 88 (November 1984), p.213.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Catholicism and National Identity in the Works of John McGahern: Interview between Eamon Maher and John McGahern’, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 90, 357 (Spring 2001), pp.70-83.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Chronology’, in John McGahern: From the Local to the Universal (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2003), pp.xi-xiv.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Entretien avec John McGahern’, in Intervoix: Bulletin de l’Association Europeenne Francois Mauriac, 10 (June 2002), pp.2-5.
• Eamon Maher, ‘An Interview With John McGahern’, in Appendix to John McGahern: From the Local to the Universal (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2003), pp.143-61.
• Eamon Maher and Declan Kiberd, ‘John McGahern: Writer, Stylist, Seeker of a Lost World’, in Doctrine & Life, 52, 2 (Feb. 2002), pp.82-97.
• Aubrey Malone, ‘John Still Ploughs his Own Furrow’, in Evening Press (30 April 1990), pp.6.
• Justine McCarthy, “Why John McGahern Would Never Tell a Lie’, in Irish Independent (22 Dec. 2001), Review, p.9.
• Robert McCrum, ‘The Books Interview: John McGahern’, in The Observer (6 Jan. 2002), Review, p.16.
• Patsy McGarry, ‘McGahern Emerges from the Dark’, in Irish Press (7 May 1991), pp.20-21.
• Susan McKay, ‘Ordinary Man’, in Sunday Tribune (6 Jan. 2002), Art / Life, p.1.
• Belinda McKeon, ‘Facing the Reality of the Past’, in The Irish Times (7 Jan. 2005), p.14.
• Belinda McKeon, ‘Make Of It What You Will’, in Trinity News (April 2000), p.14.
• Robbie Meredith, ‘First Libraries: John McGahern Interview’, in Linen Hall Library Newsletter [Belfast], 16 (May 2003), p.8.
• Gerry Moriarty, ‘McGahern; A Class of an Optimistic Fatalist’, in Irish Press (2 Sept. 1985), p.8.
• Mike Murphy, ‘John McGahern’, in Reading the Future: Irish Writers in Conversation With Mike Murphy, ed. Cliodhna Ní Anluain (Dublin: Lilliput Press 2000), pp.136-55.
• Catherine O’Beirne, ‘John McGahern Interview’, in Young Citizen: Civic and Political Studies Magazine, 20, 6 (March 1987), pp.8-9.
• Nicole Ollier, ‘Step By Step Through The Barracks with John McGahern’ [interview with John McGahern], in La Licorne, 32 [”John McGahern”] (1995), pp.55-86.
• Joseph O’Neill, ‘A Heartening Way with the Big Things’, in Sunday Correspondent (6 May 1990) [q.p.].
• Michael O’Regan, ‘A Long Pursuit of an Ideal World’, in The Irish Times (10 Jan. 1985), p.11.
• Fintan O’Toole, ‘The Family as Independent Republic’, in The Irish Times (13 Oct. 1990), Weekend 2.
• Rachel Ray, ‘Irish Writer Sees a Lost World Anew’, in Albuquerque Journal (2 April 2004), p.5.
• Denis Sampson, ‘A Conversation With John McGahern’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 1 (July 1991), pp.13-18.
• Denis Sampson, ‘John McGahern: Biographical Outline’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 1 (July 1991), pp.91-2; rep. [with adds.] as Appendix to Outstaring Nature’s Eye: The Fiction of John McGahern (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press 1993; Dublin: Lilliput Press 1994), pp.251-53.
• Tracey Sennett, ‘Rhythm, Images and the Fiction of John McGahern: An Interview’, in An Gael [NY] 3, 2 (Winter 1986), pp.11-13.
• Owen Sheehy Skeffington, ‘McGahern Affair’, in Censorship: A Quarterly Report on Censorship of Ideas and the Arts, 2, 2 (Spring 1966), pp.27-30.
• Alan Strickland, ‘Birmingham Welcomes Careful Writers: John McGahern “Writing for TV Was Almost Impossible”’, in Radio Times (15-20 March 1975), p.13.
• Alan Taylor, ‘Prodigal Sunrise’, in The Sunday Herald (6 Jan. 2002), pp.10.
• Colm Tóibín, ‘Out of the Dark: A Profile of John McGahern’, in In Dublin, 5 (September 1985), pp.10-13; rep. in Tóibín, The Trials of the Generals: Selected Journalism 1980-1990 (Dublin: Raven Arts Press 1990), pp.94-102.
• Arminta Wallace, ‘Out of the Dark’, in The Irish Times ( 28 April 1990), pp.Weekend, p.5.
• John Walsh, ‘Illuminating the Dark Side of the Irish’, in Sunday Times (29 April 1990), pp.Books pp.8-9; rep. as ‘Throwing a Light on Our Dark Side’, in Irish Independent (4 May 1990), pp.6.
• James Whyte, ‘An Interview With John McGahern’, in Appendix to History, Myth, and Ritual in the Fiction of John McGahern: Strategies of Transcendence (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press 2002), pp.227-35.
• Nicholas Wroe, ‘Ireland’s Rural Elegist’, in The Guardian (5 January 2002), pp.Saturday Review, pp.6-7.
 

• Pascal Bataillard, ‘John McGahern’s Subdued Modernity’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 6 (January 1995), pp.85-100.
• Jean Brihault, ‘John McGahern: Introduction Generale’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.11-18.
• Jean Brihault, ‘L’oeuvre de John McGahern: de l’écriture du rituel au rituel de l’écriture’, in La Licorne 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.107-17.
• Terence Brown, ‘Redeeming the Time: The Novels of John McGahern and John Banville’, in The British and Irish Novel Since 1960, ed. James Acheson (NY: St. Martin’s Press 1991), pp.159-73.
• James M. Cahalan, ‘The Conscience of the Midlands: John McGahern’, in The Irish Novel: A Critical History (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1988), pp.271-5.
• Bertrand Cardin, ‘Une representation du moi: le narcissisme dans l’oeuvre de John McGahern’, in L’Irlande: Imaginaire et Representation, ed. Godeleine Logez-Carpentier (Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses de l’Universitaire de Lille 1997), pp.97-109.
• Hélène Chuquet, ‘Etude de quelques marqueurs linguistiques de la distanciation chez John McGahern’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.33-53.
• David Coad, ‘One God, One Disciple: The Case of John McGahern’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 6 (January 1995), pp.57-62.
• John Cronin, ‘Art and the Failure of Love: The Fiction of John McGahern’, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 77, 306 (Summer 1988), pp.201-17.
• John Cronin, ‘John McGahern: A New Image?’, in Irish Writers and Their Creative Process, ed. Jacqueline Genet & Wynne Hellegouarc’h (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1996), pp.110-17.
• Cornelius Crowley, ‘Leavetaking and Homecoming in the Writing of John McGahern’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 6 (January 1995), pp.63-76.
• Michael Foley, ‘The Novels of John McGahern’, in The Honest Ulsterman 5 (September 1968), pp.34-7.
• Grattan Freyer, ‘Change Naturally: The Fiction of O’Flaherty, O’Faolain, McGahern’, in Eire-Ireland, 18, 1 (Spring 1983), pp.138-44.
• Roger Garfitt, ‘Constants in Cotemporary Irish Fiction’, in Two Decades of Irish Writing: A Critical Survey, ed. Douglas Dunn (Cheadle: Carcanet Press 1975), pp.207-43.
• Julian Gitzen, ‘Wheels Along the Shannon: The Fiction of John McGahern’, in The Journal of Irish Literature [ed. Robert Hogan], 20, 3 (September 1991), pp.36-49.
• Anne Goarzin, ‘En quête du pre: la difficile filiation  dans les romans de John McGahern’, in Masculin/Feminin: litteratures et cultures anglo-saxonnes, ed. Sophie Marret (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes 1999), pp.123-34.
• Anne Goarzin, ‘Mouvements de l’image dans les romans de John McGahern’, in La Licorne, 49 (1999), pp.13-27.
• Anne Goarzin, ‘The Same but Different: les romans de John McGahern’, in Imaginaires: revue du centre de recherche anglaise, 9 (2003), pp.171-83.
• Michael Gorman, ‘Unflinching Fidelity: The Work of John McGahern’, in Krino, 4 (Autumn 1987), pp.8-15.
• Colin Graham, ‘John McGahern’, in Contemporary Novelists [5th Edn.], ed. Lesley Henderson (Chicago & London: St. James Press 1991), pp.623-4; Do. rev. in Ibid., [7th Edn.] (2001).
• Eamon Grennan, ‘John McGahern: Vision and Revisionism’, in Colby Quarterly, 31, 1 (March 1995), pp.30-39.
• Siobhán Holland, ‘“Hel-lo ... Hel-lo ... Hel-lo”: The Uncertain Voice of Patriarchy in John McGahern’s Fictions of the War of Independence’, in Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Studies, 3, 1 (2003), pp.87-100.
• Siobhán Holland, ‘Marvellous Fathers in the Fiction of John McGahern’, in The Yearbook of English Studies, 35 [Special Issue on ‘Irish Writing since 1950’, ed. Ronan McDonald] (2005), pp.186-98.
• Brian Hughes, ‘Remembered Light: Constants in the Fiction of John McGahern’, in Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 5 (November 1992), pp.93-106.
• Rudiger Imhof, ‘John McGahern’, in The Modern Irish Novel: Irish Novelists after 1945 (Dublin: Wolfhound 2002), pp.213-36.
• Stephane Jousni, ‘James Joyce, John McGahern: chatiments corporels et principe de repetition’, in Bulletin societe de stylistique anglaise, 18 (1997), pp.143-57.
• Jurgen Kamm, ‘John McGahern’, in Contemporary Irish Novelists, ed. Rudiger Imhof (Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag 1990), pp.175-91.
• Kieran Kehoe, ‘Never Nowhere Without No: McGahern’s Fiction’, in St. Stephen’s, 3, 2 (Spring 1975), pp.48-52.
• Eileen Kennedy, ‘The Novels of John McGahern: The Road Away Becomes the Road Back’, in Contemporary Irish Writing, ed. James D. Brophy & Raymond J. Porter (New Rochelle: Iona College Press; Boston: Twayne 1983), pp.115-26.
• Sophia Hillan King, ‘“Quiet Desperation”: Variations on a Theme in the Writings of Daniel Corkery, Michael McLaverty and John McGahern’, in Aspects of Irish Studies, ed. Myrtle Hill and Sarah Barber (Belfast: IIS/QUB 1990), pp.39-45.
• Jose Lanters, ‘“It Fills Many a Vacuum”: Food and Hunger in the Early Novels of John McGahern’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 20, 1 (July 1994), pp.30-40.
• Brian Liddy, ‘State and Church: Darkness in the Fiction of John McGahern’, in New Hibernia Review, 3, 2 (Summer 1999), pp.106-21.
• Richard Lloyd, ‘Memory Becoming Imagination: The Novels of John McGahern’, in The Journal of Irish Literature, 18, 3 (Sept. 1989), pp.39-44.
• Richard Burr Lloyd, ‘The Symbolic Mass: Thematic Resolution in the Irish Novels of John McGahern’, in Emporia State Research Studies, 36 (Autumn 1987), pp.5-23.
• Liliane Louvel, ‘John McGahern: la maniere noire’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.5-7.
• Liliane Louvel, ‘Le Passage, le mystere, et la magie du cercle’, in L’OEil-deboeuf: Revue litteraire trimestrielle, 9-10 (May 1996), pp.45-52.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Catholicism in the Writings of John McGahern’, in Engaging Modernity: Readings of Irish Politics, Culture and Literature at the Turn of the Century, ed. Michael Boss & Eamon Maher (Dublin: Veritas, 2003), pp.9-28.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Circles and Circularity in the Writings of John McGahern’, in Nordic Irish Studies, 3, 2 (2004), pp.157-66.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Disintegration and Despair in the Early Fiction of John McGahern’, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 90, 357 (Spring 2001), pp.84-91.
• Eamon Maher, ‘John McGahern, A Writer in Tune with his Time’, in Crosscurrents & Confluences: Echoes of Religion in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Dublin: Veritas, 2000), pp.139-54.
• Marianne (Koenig) Mays, ‘“Ravished and Exasperated”: The Evolution of John McGahern’s Plain Style’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 1 (July 1991), pp.38-52.
• Ikuko Mizunoe, ‘Irony in John McGahern’, in Kyoritsu kokusai bunka: The Journal of Kyoritsu Area Studies, 2, 2 (1992) pp.197-213.
• Sylvie Mikowski, ‘Exil impossible et eternal retour dans les romans de John McGahern’, in Cycnos: Etudes anglophones, 15, 2 (1998), pp.151-60.
• Sylvie Mikowski, ‘Lemons de tenebres’, in L’OEil-de-boeuf: Revue litteraire trimestrielle, 9-10 (May 1996), pp.53-60.
• F.C. Molloy, ‘The Novels of John McGahern’, in Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 19, 1 (Spring 1977), pp.5-27.
• John Montague, ‘John McGahern’, in Contemporary Novelists [4th Edn.], ed. D. L. Kirkpatrick (Chicago & London: St. James Press 1986), pp.592-93.
• Shaun O’Connell, ‘Door Into the Light: John McGahern’s Ireland’, in Massachusetts Review, 25 (Summer 1984), pp.225-68.
• Riana O’Dwyer, Foreword to James Whyte, History, Myth, and Ritual in the Fiction of John McGahern: Strategies of Transcendence (Lewiston, Queenstown, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), pp.xi-xv.
• Nicole Ollier, ‘Les mysteres du rosaire et la roseraie secrete de John McGahern’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines 6 (January 1995), pp.1-23.
• Henri-D. Paratte, ‘Conflicts in a Changing World: John McGahern’, in The Irish Novel in Our Time, ed. Patrick Rafroidi & Maurice Harmon (Lille: Publications de L’Universite the Lille 1976), pp.311-27.
• Denis Sampson, ‘Introducing John McGahern’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 1 (July 1991), pp.1-11.
• Denis Sampson, ‘The Lost Image: Some Notes On McGahern and Proust’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 1 (July 1991), pp.57-68.
• Karlheinz Schwartz, ‘John McGahern’s Point of View’, in Eire-Ireland, 19, 3 (Autumn 1984), pp.92-110.
• Paolo Vivante, ‘McGahern and the Homeric Moment’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 1 (July 1991), pp.53-6.
• Alan Warner, ‘John McGahern’, in A Guide to Anglo-Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan; NY: St. Martin’s Press 1981), [Chap.] pp.245-52.
• Kumiko Yamada, ‘Living With Violence: Irishness and Universality in the Novels of John McGahern’, in Research Bulletin of Human Sciences [Liberal Arts Faculty, Rikkyo University, Japan] 53 (1994), pp.77-91.

• Anon., ‘John McGahern, “All Sorts of Impossible Things”’, in Masterplots II: Short Story Series, [rev. edn.], 8 vols, ed. Charles E. May (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2004), Vol. I, pp.84-87.
• Anon., ‘John McGahern, “The Beginning of an Idea”’, in Masterplots II: Short Story Series, revised edition, 8 vols, ed. Charles E. May (Pasadena: Salem Press 2004), Vol. I, pp.296-99.
• Nicola Bradbury, ‘High Ground’, in Re-Reading the Short Story, ed. Clare Hanson (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1989), pp.86-97.
• Terence Brown, ‘John McGahern’s Nightlines: Tone, Technique and Symbolism’, in The Irish Short Story, ed. Patrick Rafroidi & Brown (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1979), pp.289-301.
• Bertrand Cardin, ‘Un aspect du temps: le cycle dans les nouvelles de John McGahern’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.179-86.
• Bertrand Cardin, ‘Changement et fixite dans les nouvelles de John McGahern’, in La Nouvelle irlandaise de langue anglaise, ed. Jacqueline Genet (Villeneuve d’Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion 1996), pp.159-70.
• Bertrand Cardin, ‘Figures of Silence: Ellipses and Eclipses in John McGahern’s Collected Stories’, in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 40 (Spring 2003), pp.57-68.
• Bertrand Cardin, ‘Les nouvelles de John McGahern ou l’expression de l’inexprime’, in Etudes Irlandaises, 19, 1 (Spring 1994), pp.53-61.
• Dominique Dubois, ‘Incommunicability and Alienation in John McGahern’s “My Love, My Umbrella”: An Analysis of the Discursive Strategies’, in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 34 (Spring 2000), pp.53-64.
• Paul Gueguen, ‘“Like All Other Men” hantise et nostalgie de l’ordre’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.187-94.
• Neil Jordan, ‘Word and Image: John McGahern’s and Cathal Black’s Wheels’, in Film Directions 1.2 (1978), pp.10-11.
• Eileen Kennedy, ‘Sons and Fathers in John McGahern’s Short Stories’, in New Irish Writing, ed. James D. Brophy & Eamon Grennan ([New Rochelle, NY]: Iona College Press; Boston: Twayne 1989), pp.65-74.
• Henri Lefebvre, ‘Le Debut d’une idee’, in L’OEil-de-boeuf: Revue litteraire trimestrielle, 9-10 (May 1996), pp.67-71.
• Liliane Louvel, ‘John McGahern: “Like All Other Men” ou “la vanite et la poursuite du vent”’, in Etudes Irlandaises 21.2 (Autumn 1996), pp.151-62.
• Liliane Louvel, ‘The Writer’s Field: “Patrols of the Imagination”: John McGahern’s Short Stories’, in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 34 (Spring 2000), pp.65-85.
• Liliane Louvel and Hèléne Chuquet, ‘Une subjectivite qui se derobe: L’Effacement des marques dans “Strandhill, the Sea” de John McGahern’, in Litterature/Linguistique: Lectures croisées, ed. Catherine Bernard and Lucie Gournay (Paris: Institut d’Etudes Anglophones, Universite Paris VII - Denis Diderot, 2003), pp.99-120.
• Claude Maisonnat, ‘Flux et desir dans “A Slip-Up” de John McGahern: incontinence et écriture’, in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 30 (Spring 1998), pp.45-56.
• Claude Maisonnat, ‘Jeux d’écriture et creation problematique dans “The Beginning of an Idea”’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995): 195-206; trans. [& rev.] as ‘Problematic Creation in The Beginning of an Idea by John McGahern’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 6 (January 1995), pp.101-09.
• Maguy Pernot-Deschamps, ‘Loss and Failure in High Ground’, in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 34 (Spring 2000), pp.31-40.
• Antoinette Quinn, ‘Varieties of Disenchantment: Narrative Technique in John McGahern’s Short Stories’, in The Journal of the Short Story in English, 13 (Autumn 1989), pp.77-89.
• Denis Sampson, ‘The “Rich Whole”: John McGahern’s Collected Stories as Autobiography’, in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 34 (Spring 2000), pp.21-30.
• Jacques Sohier, ‘Desire as Slip-Up in the Short Story “Peaches” by John McGahern’, in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 34 (Spring 2000), pp.41-52.
• Alain Theil, ‘Manifestations et avaries du pouvoir dans “Christmas” de John McGahern’, in Journal of the Short Story in English / Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle, 5 (Autumn 1985), pp.55-64.
• Yvon Tosser, ‘Theorie de l’image, sensibilite absurde et aspects de la pratique textuelle dans Nightlines’, in Cahiers du Centre d’Etudes Irlandaises, 4 (1979), pp.7-31.
• Claude Verley, ‘“It’s about time you gave where you’re going some thought”: “The Country Funeral” de John McGahern’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.207-20.
• Claude Verley, ‘Variations sur un incipit: le train et la roué de l’histoire” dans “Wheels” de John McGahern’, in Etudes Irlandaises, 21, 2 (Autumn 1996), pp.137-50.

• Anon., ‘Ireland Intensified’, in Times Literary Supplement, 27 (November 1970), p.1378.
• Derek Mahon, ‘Is There No Escape?’, in The Times (12 November 1970), p.14.

Getting Through

• Neil Jordan, ‘A Rural Irony’, in The Irish Times (17 June 1978), Weekend, p.3.
• Tom Paulin, ‘Evidence of Neglect: Recent & Selected Short Stories’, in Encounter, 50, 6 (June 1978), pp.64-71.

• John Cronin, review of High Ground, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 75, 298 (Summer 1986), pp.219-21.
• Darcy O’Brien, ‘The Real Ireland’, in Irish Literary Supplement, 6, 2 (Autumn 1987), pp.31-2.
• Denis Sampson, review of High Ground, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 13, 2 (December 1987), pp.79-80.

Collected Stories

• John Banville,‘Big News from Small Worlds’, in The New York Review of Books (3 April 1993), pp.22-5.
• Hermione Lee, ‘Good Manners of the Mind’, in The Irish Times (17 October 1992), Weekend, p.9.
• Denis Sampson and Dolores MacKenna, ‘Two Views: The “Rich Whole” of the Artist’ [two individual reviews], Irish Literary Supplement, 12, 2 (Autumn 1993), pp.11-12.

The Barracks

• Pascale Amiot, ‘L’Enferement dans The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises, [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), pp.45-64.
• Alain Blayac, ‘“Eveline” de James Joyce, Elizabeth Reegan de John McGahern: un aspect de l’intertextualite de The Barracks’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines 6 (January 1995), pp.77-84.
• Bertrand Cardin, ‘The Implicit in The Barracks’, in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilations du Monde Anglophone 4 (October 1994), pp.275-78.
• Bertrand Cardin, ‘L’Incommunicabilite dans The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises, [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), pp.65-74.
• Jean-Louis Chevalier, ‘Childhood in The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises, 21.2 (Autumn 1996), pp.171-81.
• David Coad, ‘Religious References in The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises, [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), pp.131-38.
• John Cronin, ‘“The Frightful Mill of Love”: John McGahern’s The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), pp.107-18.
• Cornelius Crowley, ‘Resentment, Repetition, Grace: Time in John McGahern’s The Barracks’, in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilations du Monde Anglophone 4 (October 1994), pp.279-90.
• John Devitt, ‘The Lonely Passion of Elizabeth Reegan’, in REA: A Journal of Religion, Education and the Arts, 1 (2000), pp.53-63.
• Max Duperray, ‘La pesanteur et la grace ou la passion d’Elizabeth dans The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), 139-46.
• Claude Fierobe, ‘Avant-Propos: John McGahern: Le fugitif et l’eternel’, in [general introduction to] Etudes Irlandaises [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), pp.11-14.
• Claude Fierobe, ‘Loin de Dieu, pres des hommes: The Barracks de John McGahern’, in Etudes Anglaises, 47, 4 (October-December 1994), pp.445-54.
• Claude Fierobe, ‘Pour un “Veritable lecteur”: La Caserne de John McGahern’, in L’OEil-de-boeuf: Revue litteraire trimestrielle, 9-10 (May 1996), pp.61-65.
• Francois Gallix, ‘Les petits eclairs de l’anachronie dans The Barracks de John McGahern’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 6 (January 1995), pp.41-56.
• Jean-Michel Ganteau, ‘John McGahern’s The Barracks: An Interpenetrative Catholic Novel’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 6 (January 1995), pp.25-40.
• Archibald E. Irwin, ‘The Barracks’, in Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series, 4 vols, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press 1987), pp.I, pp.108-13.
• Peter Kuch, ‘Elizabeth Reegan as a Subaltern Wife: Irish Writing as the “Cracked Looking-Glass of a Servant”’, in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilations du Monde Anglophone, 4 (October 1994), pp.291-98.
• Liliane Louvel, ‘John McGahern: The Barracks, requiem un jour ordinaire [sic]’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.87-105.
• Francoise Martin, ‘“Both Different and the Same”: la femme, l’artiste et la mort dans The Barracks’, in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilations du Monde Anglophone 4 (October 1994), pp.299-304.
• Sylvie Mikowski, ‘L’Experience fictive du temps dans The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises (October 1994): Etudes sur The Barracks, 27-44.
• Veronica O’Brien, ‘The Barracks: What to Put Next’, in Etudes Irlandaises, 21, 2 (Autumn 1996), pp.163-70.
• Riana O’Dwyer, ‘Gender Roles in The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), 147-62.
• Nicole Ollier, ‘L’Evitement du sens dans The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), 75-93.
• Nicole Ollier, ‘Retention, oppression et repression dans The Barracks’, in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilations du Monde Anglophone, 4 (October 1994), pp.305-14.
• Nicole Ollier, ‘Step By Step Through The Barracks’ [see 3 above].
• Josiane Paccaud-Huguet, ‘John McGahern’s Poetics of Excess in The Barracks’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 6 (January 1995), pp.111-27.
• Josiane Paccaud-Huguet, ‘A Strangely Polished Looking-Glass: John McGahern’s Peculiar Realism’, in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilations du Monde Anglophone, 4 (October 1994), pp.315-24.
• Martine Pelletier, ‘Alienation individuelle et crise identitaire collective dans The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises (October 1994): Etudes sur The Barracks, 15-25.
• Ciaran Ross, ‘Containing and Being Contained (A Violent Sense of Otherness in The Barracks)’, in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilations du Monde Anglophone 4 (October 1994), pp.325-32.
• Ciaran Ross, ‘Some Painful Thoughts About The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), pp.119-130.
• Yvon Tosser, ‘Repetition et difference: L’Invention du quotidien dans The Barracks’, in Etudes Irlandaises [Etudes sur The Barracks] (October 1994), pp.95-106.
• Michael Walsh, “The Barracks by John McGahern: Annotation”’, in Etudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 6 (January 1995), pp.129-45.
• Marie-Noelle Zeender, ‘Michael Halliday: “l’insoutenable absurdite de l’etre”’, in Q/W/E/R/T/Y: Arts, Litteratures & Civilations du Monde Anglophone, 4 (October 1994), pp.333-37.

• Anon., review of The Barracks, in Times Literary Supplement (22 February 1963), p.132.
• Anthony Burgess, ‘Escaping from the Madhouse’, in The Observer (9 March 1963), p.24.
• Kate O’Brien, review of The Barracks, in University Review, 3, 4 [1963], pp.59-60.
• S.C.F., review of The Barracks, in The Kilkenny Magazine, 9 (Spring 1963), pp.77-81.
• John D. Sheridan, ‘Classic Tragedy in The Barracks’, in Irish Independent (16 March 1963), p.10.

The Dark

• John Cronin, ‘The Dark’ is Not Light Enough’, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 58 (Winter 1969), pp.427-32.
• Paul Devine, ‘Style and Structure in John McGahern’s The Dark’, in Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 21, 1 (Spring 1979), pp.49-58.
• Ivo Hlavizna, ‘Patterns of Failure: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and John McGahern’s The Dark, in Faulkner, His Contemporaries, and His Posterity, ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Tubingen & Basel: Francke 1993), pp.161-66.
• Michael J. Toolan, ‘John McGahern: The Historian and The Pornographer’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 7, 2 (December 1981), pp.39-55.

• Anon., ‘Swotting Out Of the Farm’, in Times Literary Supplement, 13 May 1965, p.365.
• Julian Jebb, ‘Heart of the Matter’, in The Sunday Times, 9 May 1965, 49.
• Vivian Mercier, ‘Growing Up in Ireland’, in The New York Times Book Review, 6 March 1966, 50.
• Terence de Vere White, ‘Five to One’, in The Irish Times, 8 May 1965, 8.

• Anne Goarzin, ‘Figures de l’insularite dans The Leavetaking et Amongst Women’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.119-36.
• Richard Kearney, ‘A Crisis of Imagination: An analysis of a counter-tradition in the Irish novel’, in The Crane Bag, 3, 1 (1979), pp.58-70; rep. in The Crane Bag Book of Irish Studies (1977-1981), ed. Mark Patrick Hederman & Richard Kearney (Dublin: Blackwater Press 1982), pp.390-402.
• Terence Killeen, ‘Versions of Exile: A Reading of The Leavetaking’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 1 (July 1991), pp.69-78.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Death in the Country: An Intertextual Analysis of Jean Sulivan’s Anticipate Every Goodbye and John McGahern’s The Leavetaking’, in France-Ireland: Anatomy of a Relationship: Studies in History, Literature and Politics, ed. Eamon Maher & Grace Neville (Bern: Peter Lang 2004), pp.111-21.
• Denis Sampson, ‘A Note on John McGahern’s The Leavetaking’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2, 2 (December 1976), pp.61-65.

• Roger Garfitt, ‘Silent Traveller’, in The New Review, 1, 11 (Feb. 1975), pp.63-65.
• Seamus Heaney, ‘Shedding the Skin of Youth’, in Sunday Independent (26 Jan. 1975), p.9.
• Julian Jebb, ‘The Call of the Deep’, in Times Literary Supplement (10 Jan. 1975), p.29.
• Jonathan Raban, ‘Exiles - New Fiction’, in Encounter, 44, 6 (June 1975), pp.77-79.
• Denis Sampson, review of The Leavetaking [rev. edn.], in Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 1985), p.44.

• Giuliana Bendelli, ‘John McGahern’s The Pornographer or The Representation of Nothingness: an Attempt to Overcome Irish Parochialism’, in Insulae/Islands/Ireland: The Classical World and the Mediterranean, ed. Giuseppe Serpillo & Donatella Badin (Cagliari: Tema 1996), pp.188-93.
• Suzanne Fournier, ‘Structure and Theme in John McGahern’s The Pornographer’, in Eire-Ireland, 22, 1 (Spring 1987), pp.130-50.
• George O’Brien, ‘The Pornographer’, in Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series, 4 vols, ed. Frank N. Magill (Pasadena: Salem Press 1987), pp.III, pp.1330-34.
• Michael J. Toolan, ‘John McGahern: The Historian and The Pornographer’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 7.2 (December 1981), pp.39-55.

Reviews

• Alice Adams, ‘Mavis, the Colonel and Sin Chastised’, in The New York Times Book Review (2 December 1979), pp.14, 53.
• Patricia Craig, ‘Concocting Erotica’, in Times Literary Supplement (11 January 1980), p.46.
• John Naughton, ‘Dirty Dublin’, in The Listener (18 October 1979), 534-5.
• Tom Paulin, review of The Pornographer, in Encounter, 54, 1 (January 1980), pp.60-61.
• John Updike, ‘An Oldfashioned Novel’, in NYer, 24 December 1979, 95-8; reprinted in Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism (NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1983; London: Andre Deutsch 1984), pp.388-93.

• Theo Bogels, ‘Man en Vrouw schiep Hijhen-Tussen Vrouwen [Amongst Women] van John McGahern’, in Van Papegaai tot Porselein: Beschouwingen over vijf hedendaagse Britse romans, ed. Henk Aertsen (Amsterdam: VU Uitgeverij 1996), pp.71-96.
• Joe Cleary, ‘Modernization and Aesthetic Ideology in Contemporary Irish Culture’, in Writing in the Irish Republic: Literature, Culture, Politics 1949-1999, ed. Ray Ryan (Basingstoke: Macmillan 2000), pp.105-29.
• John Cronin, ‘John McGahern’s Amongst Women: Retrenchment and Renewal’, in Irish University Review, 22.1 (Spring / Summer 1992), pp.168-76.
• Maria DiBattista, ‘Joyce’s Ghost: The Bogey of Realism in John McGahern’s Amongst Women’, in Transcultural Joyce, ed. Karen R. Lawrence (Cambridge UP 1998), pp.21-36.
• Carle Bonafous-Murat, ‘Le rivage et la terre: l’espace feminin dans Amongst Women’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.137-50.
• Gerry Dukes, ‘Les transformations du recit dans Entre toutes les femmes [Amongst Women]’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.151-8.
• Siobhán Holland, ‘Re-Citing the Rosary: Women, Catholicism and Agency in Brian Moore’s Cold Heaven and John McGahern’s Amongst Women’, in Contemporary Irish Fiction: Themes, Tropes, Theories, ed. Liam Harte & Michael Parker (London: Macmillan 2000), pp.56-78.
• Siobhán Holland, ‘Tact and Tactics: A Case for Matrifocality in John McGahern’s Amongst Women’, in Irish Encounters: Poetry, Politics and Prose Since 1880, ed. Alan Marshall & Neil Sammells (Bath: Sullis Press 1998), pp.115-26.
• Declan Kiberd, ‘John McGahern’s Amongst Women’, in Language and Tradition in Ireland: Continuities and Displacements, ed. Maria Tymoczko & Colin Ireland (Amherst & Boston: University of Massachusetts Press 2003), pp.195-213.
• Eamon Maher, ‘A Glimpse of Irish Catholicism in McGahern’s Amongst Women’, in Doctrine & Life. 51, 6 (July/August 2001), pp.346-55.
• Linden Peach, ‘Mimicry, Authority and Subversion: Brian Moore’s The Magician’s Wife (1997), Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin (2000) and John McGahern’s Amongst Women (1990)’, in The Contemporary Irish Novel: Critical Readings (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp.68-96.
• Lesley Prior, ‘Male Power and Female Acquiescence? Exploring Gender Roles Within the Irish Catholic Church with Reference to John McGahern’s Amongst Women’, in Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, 5, 1 & 2 (2003), pp.55-62.
• Antoinette Quinn, ‘A Prayer For My Daughter: Patriarchy in Amongst Women’, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 17, 1 (July 1991), pp.79-90.
• Gerry Smyth, ‘Amongst Women (1990) by John McGahern’, in The Novel and the Nation: Studies in the New Irish Fiction (London: Pluto 1997), pp.171-73 [chap. sect.].
• Eamon Wall, ‘The Living Stream: John McGahern’s Amongst Women and Irish Writing in the 1990s’, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 88, 351 (Autumn 1999), pp.305-14.

• John Banville, ‘In Violent Times’, in The New York Review of Books, 37, 19 (6 December 1990), pp.22-3.
• John Banville, ‘To Have Is to Hold, and Hate’, in The Observer (6 May 1990), p.61.
• Rand Richards Cooper, ‘Goodbye Again, Dark Love’, in The New York Times Book Review (9 September 1990), p.44.
• Thomas Kilroy, ‘The Steady Pulse of the World’, in The Irish Times (12 May 1990), Weekend, p.9.
• Oliver Marshall, review of Amongst Women, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 79, 315 (Autumn 1990), pp.332-34.
• Colm Tóibín, ‘Ritual and Report’, in Irish Review, 9 (Autumn 1990), pp.119-23.

• Rudiger Imhof, ‘That They May Face the Rising Sun: The Apex of John McGahern’s Fiction’, in ABEI Journal: The Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 4 (June 2002), pp.141-45.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Spirituality in John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun’, in Reality, 68, 2 (February 2003), pp.26-8.
• Stanley van der Ziel, ‘The Aesthetics of Redemption: John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun’, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 93, 372 (Winter 2004), pp.473-86.

Reviews

• John B. Breslin, ‘Pastoral’, in Commonweal [NY] 129.10 (17 May 2002), pp.22-24.
• Patricia Craig, ‘The Master of Melancholy’, in The Independent [UK] (5 January 2002), Weekend Review, p.12.
• Seamus Deane, ‘A New Dawn’, in The Guardian (12 January 2002), Saturday Review, p.9.
• Hermione Lee, ‘Everything Under the Sun’, in The Observer (6 January 2002), Review, p.16.
• Forrest K. Lehman, review of By the Lake, in Etudes Irlandaises, 28, 1 (Spring 2003) 199-201.
• Robert Macfarlane, ‘The Slow Burn of Happiness’, in Times Literary Supplement (18 January 2002), p.28.
• Eamon Maher, ‘Worth the Wait’, in Irish Literary Supplement, 21, 2 (Autumn 2002), pp.27; rep. in Irish Literary Supplement, 23, 2 (Autumn 2003), pp.24-25.
• Sylvie Mikowski, review of That They May Face the Rising Sun, in Etudes Irlandaises, 28, 1 (Spring 2003) 198-9[in French].
• John Sutherland, ‘Coming Home’, in The New York Times Book Review (17 March 2002), p.9.

• Emile-Jean Dumay, ‘John McGahern et le theâtre (à Propos de The Power of Darkness)’, in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.167-77.
• Nicholas Grene, ‘John McGahern’s The Power of Darkness’, in Krino, 13 (1992), pp.52-60; Do. [rep.; Nicholas Greene], in La Licorne, 32 [“Numéro Spécial John McGahern”] (1995), pp.159-68; reprinted in Krino 1986-1996: An Anthology of Modern Irish Writing, ed. Gerald Dawe & Jonathan Williams (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1996), pp.80-87.
• Ikuko Mizunoe, ‘Light and Darkness Intertwined in Two Irish Plays: Dancing at Lughnasa and The Power of Darkness’, in Kyoritsu kokusai bunka: The Journal of Kyoritsu Area Studies, 3, 1 (1993) 19-40 [in Japanese].

Reviews

• John Mahony, ‘McGahern’, in Irish Press, 21 October 1991, 16.
• Denis Sampson, ‘The Common Condition’, in Irish Literary Supplement 11.2 (Autumn 1992), pp.11-12.

• Arminta Wallace, ‘De-Ossifying Opera’ [interview with Kevin O’Connell], in The Irish Times (30 Oct. 1997), p.12.
• Michael Dervan, ‘Love in the Sixties’, review of My Love, My Umbrella, in The Irish Times (1 Nov. 1997), p.16.
• Ian Wilson, ‘Packed House for New Opera’, review, in Belfast News Letter (17 Nov. 1997), p.27.