| "In my father's house" : renegotiations of boyhood in life writing by John McGahern, Ciaran O'Driscoll, Dermot Healy and Ciaran Carson | Sloan, Barry | Article in Journal | | 2009 |
| "They all seem to have inherited the horrible ugliness and sewer filth of sex": Catholic guilt in selected works by John McGahern (1934-2006) | Maher, Eamon | Article in Journal | | 2014 |
| 'In memoriam' John McGahern (1934-2006) | Mikowski,Sylvie | Article in Journal | | 2006 |
| A Terrible Beauty was Born? Memory, history, and forgetting in Colm Tóibín's The Heather Blazing and John McGahern’s
Amongst Women | Luppino, Claudia | Article in Book | | 2015 |
| Beyond chronicle : the deceptive realism of John McGahern's fiction | McKeon, Belinda | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| Catholicism and national identity in the works of John McGahern | Maher, Eamon | Article in Book | | 2012 |
| Dear Mr McLaverty : the literary correspondence of John McGahern and Michael McLaverty, 1959-1980 | McGahern, John, 1934-2006McLaverty, Michael, 1904-1992 | Monograph or Collective Volume | Linen Hall Library | 2006 |
| Fallen nobility : the world of John McGahern | Kiberd, Declan | Article in Journal | | 2005 |
| Full circle with Heaney | Mooney, Tom | Article in Journal | | 2023 |
| Ireland and ecocriticism : literature, history and environmental justice | Flannery, Eóin | Monograph or Collective Volume | Routledge | 2016 |
| John McGahern (b.1934) | O'Connor, Joseph, 1963- | Article in Book | | 2005 |
| John McGahern : from the local to the universal | Maher, Eamon | Monograph or Collective Volume | Liffey Press | 2003 |
| John McGahern and the American connection : intertextuality and masculinity | Bargroff, Adam | Thesis | | |
| John McGahern's Amongst Women : representation, memory, and trauma | Garratt, Robert F. | Article in Journal | | 2005 |
| John McGahern's Roscommon | Shovlin, Frank | Article in Book | | 2018 |
| John McGahern: The sociology of honor, status and shame | Inglis, Tom | Article in Journal | | 2022 |
| Le roman de Dublin:nouvelles figurations | Mikowski, Sylvie | Article in Journal | | 2007 |
| Secular players : Catholic imagination, modern Irish writing and the case of John McGahern | Shovlin, Frank | Article in Book | | 2013 |
| The church and its spire : John McGahern and the Catholic question | Maher, Eamon | Monograph or Collective Volume | Columba Press | 2011 |
| Tracing the imprint: Catholicism in some twentieth century Irish fiction | Maher, Eamon | Article in Journal | | 2011 |
| ‘If it was just th'oul book …’ : a history of the McGahern banning controversy | Nolan, Val | Article in Journal | | 2011 |