Neighbours tell Tom McGurk how Patrick Kavanagh was often more interested in reading than farming and how the farm horse 'Oul Glug' "knew the way home better than he did."
"... And he was reading the paper behind the cart..."
Included here is a recital of Kavanagh’s poem 'Kerr’s Ass'.

One neighbour comments "He was good for nothing...He had no idea about farming". Another describes how Kavanagh was often distracted from farm work by the newspaper.

'Gods Make Their Own Importance', a radio documentary presents

"A partial portrait of Patrick Kavanagh, poet and novelist, as seen by himself, by his own people in South Ulster and by Tom McGurk, who wrote and compiled the programme."
(RTÉ Guide, April 6, 1973, Vol.10, No.14, p.12)

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