Now we have Garrett Carr’s first novel, The Boy from the Sea, which is set in Killybegs, Ireland’s big fishing port.

The author's prose is outstanding for its visual impact, often featuring stone or light, leading to speculation on the relation between the physical world and the characters’ inner lives ...

(This was almost a badge of honor at the time for Irish writers. Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy was banned in 1958, Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls in 1960 and John McGahern’s The Dark in 1965, joining ...

I realised that he had no interest in music as he was tone deaf. But most of all, he had no interest in Dublin. The Letters of John McGahern edited by Frank Shovlin. Despite the autobiographical ...

The Pornographer, by John McGahern. New York Review Books. 272 pages. $17.95. If you were asked to name the finest Irish writer of the second half of the twentieth century, a strong case could be made ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

With a horror comedy, you’re really lulled into this false sense of security’, The cast of Video Nasty on what to expect from the new Virgin Media horror-comedy ...

Cavan funny man Kevin McGahern’s star is on the rise as he is set to feature in two separate TV series airing this month. First up, Video Nasty is a dark comedy drama series set in the mid 1980s when ...

John Tusa, former director of London’s Barbican Arts Centre, put it like this: “The arts matter because they embrace, express and define the soul of a civilisation. A nation without arts would ...

Dancing With The Stars is in full swing and former semi-finalist actor and comedian Kevin McGahern has some words of wisdom for those who are taking part — learn how to meditate! Kevin, who is now ...

Virgin Media Television has launched its new dark comedy drama series Video Nasty, which tells the story of three teenagers who go on a quest to complete a cult VHS collection. We need your ...