John McGahern

Moran is an old Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerilla leader in the War of Independence. Now, in old age, living out in the country, Moran is still fighting - with his family, his friends, even himself - in a poignant struggle to come to terms with the past.

Irish author, John McGahern’s autobiography is one of great contrasts: on the one hand he remembers the love of his sensitive and intelligent mother, who died of cancer when the author was ten, and on the other, the brutal and violent behaviour of his tyrannical father.