The Barracks (novel)
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The Barracks is the debut novel of Irish writer John McGahern. Critically acclaimed when it was published in 1963, it won the AE Memorial Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Macauley Fellow
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The Barracks, Cootehall, County Roscommon and John McGahern memorial plaque
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The Barracks (novel)
…the debut novel of Irish writer John McGahern (1934–2006). Critically acclaimed when it was published in 1963, it won the AE Memorial Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Macauley Fellowship. The Barracks is set in a police barracks similar to the one McGahern lived in with his father from the age of ten, after…
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