The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings
Published
May 2018
Publishers
UK
Faber & Faber
John McGahern, the leading Irish novelist of his generation, wrote a substantial number of compelling scripts for radio, television and stage.
This volume brings together six of his produced works, at the heart of which sits the previously unpublished The Rockingham Shoot, a dark and powerful play for television concerning a nationalist teacher whose attempt to prevent his pupils assisting at a pheasant shoot held in honour of the British Ambassador leads to a shockingly violent incident.
Collectively, these dramatic works offer an evocative and often stark account of a deeply troubled and divided nation.
Like Heaney, or Patrick Kavanagh, or Raymond Carver, or Joyce, McGahern was able to take the stuff of ordinary lives and create of it the highest art.
Joseph O’Connor
One of the finest writers of the twentieth century.
Hermione Lee
This volume brings together six of his produced works, at the heart of which sits the previously unpublished The Rockingham Shoot, a dark and powerful play for television concerning a nationalist teacher whose attempt to prevent his pupils assisting at a pheasant shoot held in honour of the British Ambassador leads to a shockingly violent incident.
Collectively, these dramatic works offer an evocative and often stark account of a deeply troubled and divided nation.
Like Heaney, or Patrick Kavanagh, or Raymond Carver, or Joyce, McGahern was able to take the stuff of ordinary lives and create of it the highest art.
Joseph O’Connor
One of the finest writers of the twentieth century.
Hermione Lee
