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By: Frank Shovlin
Publisher: Dublin City Public Libraries
Published: January 2021
Pages: 30
Categories: Literature
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780950051239

Every January Dublin City Libraries invites an expert speaker to deliver the Sir John T. Gilbert commemorative lecture on some aspect of Dublin’s history. In 2020 Professor Frank Shovlin of the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool delivered a lecture on “John McGahern’s Dublin” and this has now been published by Dublin City Council. The lecture uncovers the influence of Dublin on the life and work of the late writer John McGahern. Whether pounding the pavements, visiting its bars and ballrooms, learning and teaching in its classrooms or talking with friends, Dublin and its inhabitants seeped into McGahern’s mind and his prose. Illustrated with passages from McGahern’s work, Frank Shovlin argues that Dublin shaped this writer at least as much as his rural habitat.

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