John McGahern
WHAT MANNER OF MAN ?
Georges Elliot’s husband,
Often seen as dour,
but was:
Funny,
Great company,
Irreverent,
”excuse me for intruding but she wasn't like
that at all, she was serious but also great
fun. I was married to her.”
Mike Murphy, (R.T.E.)
“John McGahern is what is called a lovely
man – Warm, modest, friendly, gentle, a
man who would be an understand friend in
a crisis as well as good company over a
drink”.
View of himself from “Old Fashioned”
“As they were controversial they won him a sort of fame: some thought they were serious , well made
and compulsive viewing, bringing things to light that were in bad need of light: but others maintained
they were humorless, morbid and restricted to a narrow view that were more reveling of private
obsessions than any truth about Irish life in general”.