Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.
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The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.John McGahern
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
John McGahern
My father was very outwardly religious.
John McGahern
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
John McGahern
I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.
John McGahern
I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
John McGahern
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