About John McGahern
John McGahern was an Irish writer and novelist. John McGahern was born on November 12, 1934. In the years following his mother's death, McGahern completed his primary schooling in the local primary school, and ultimately won a scholarship to the Presentation Brothers secondary school in Carrick-on-Shannon. Susan had trained as a teacher at Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), having won a scholarship to study there. He was first published by the London literary and arts review, X, which published in 1961 an extract from his first – abandoned – novel, The End or Beginning of Love. His first published novel, The Barracks (1963), chronicles the life of the barracks' Garda sergeant's second wife, Elizabeth Reegan, who is in declining health due to cancer.
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