Moran has many traits in common with McGahern’s own father, also an IRA veteran who subsequently joined the Garda Síochána. The main protagonist of Amongst Women is Michael Moran, a former IRA squadron leader who fought with distinction during the War of Independence. Trailer for John McGahern: A Private World Please review their details and accept them to load the content. We need your consent to load this Vimeo content We use Vimeo to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. There is possibly no better reference point than this book for anyone anxious to get an insight into what it was like to live in rural Ireland during the middle decades of the 20th century. When you saw the author walking the lanes of his beloved Leitrim, tending to the cattle on his farm or visiting the local town of Mohill on Pat Collins' 2004 documentary John McGahern: A Private World, you got a real sense of a man tied to the inhabitants of the area where he lived the majority of his life and which he mined for his artistic inspiration. Like the sound of a real hammer on a real anvil, everything about Amongst Women has the ring of authenticity. He shares with Yeats, Kavanagh and Heaney a keen awareness of place and he has immortalised the counties of Leitrim and Roscommon through his inimitable depictions of the northwest midlands. I have taught the text for more than a decade and I I discover fresh insights and new reasons to appreciate McGahern’s skill as a wordsmith every year. "McGahern has immortalised the counties of Leitrim and Roscommon through his inimitable depictions of the northwest midlands" Photo: Paul Butler The successful adaptation of the novel into a TV drama, with the late Tony Doyle stunningly brilliant in the role of Moran, added even more to the renown of Amongst Women.
Another critic stated it fell just a centimetre short of perfection, an assessment Declan Kiberd considered a trifle harsh.
Bryant's Possession.Ĭritic John Cronin declared that the novel was "a stylistically seamless work", while Fintan O'Toole found it "completely Irish and highly universal". It was shortlisted, along with Brian Moore's Lies of Silence, for the Booker Prize, only to lose out to A.S. It won several awards, including the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Fiction Prize and the Sunday Independent/Irish Life Arts Award. Analysis: everything about the book has the ring of authenticity about life in rural Ireland during the middle of the 20th centuryīy Eamon Maher and Paul Butler, TU Dublinģ0 years ago, John McGahern's Amongst Womenwas published to much critical acclaim.
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