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The Barracks (novel)

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is set in a police barracks similar to the one McGahern lived in with his father from the age of ten, after his mother's death from
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was published in 1965, and caused McGahern's fame in Ireland to become notoriety when it was banned under the
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from his job as a teacher. During this year he travelled and lived in
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because of its themes of parental and clerical child abuse.
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The generous Macauley Fellowship McGahern received for
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John McGahern
English
Faber and Faber
1963
Ireland
hardback
paperback
ISBN
0-571-11990-5
OCLC
12478315
novel
Irish
John McGahern
AE Memorial Award
Arts Council of Ireland
Macauley Fellowship
breast cancer
the Blitz
breast cancer
sabbatical
London
Spain
France
Germany
The Dark
Annikki Laaksi
Censorship Act
Hugh Leonard

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