Extremes
Seamus Deane, 7 February 1985
Children of the Dead End: The Rat-Pit
by Patrick MacGill.
Caliban, 305 pp., £10, September 1983,0 904573 36 2 Show More
by Patrick MacGill.
Caliban, 305 pp., £10, September 1983,
The Red Horizon The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War
by Patrick MacGill.
Caliban, 306 pp., £9, October 1984,0 904573 90 7 Show More
by Patrick MacGill.
Caliban, 306 pp., £9, October 1984,
The Navy Poet: The Collected Poetry of Patrick MacGill
Caliban, 407 pp., £12, October 1984,0 904573 99 0 Show More
Caliban, 407 pp., £12, October 1984,
“... strange forms which 20th-century Irish novels display from Joyce to Beckett to Flann O’Brien and John Banville. When the lack of freedom is viewed, on the other hand, as a structural defect, based on economic forces, then the novel tends to be much more dependent for its appeal upon the verisimilitude with which the social formation is registered. Even if ... ”