There has never been quite so much press interest in a book - and deservedly so - as in Our Father, the tribute to the late comedian Dermot Morgan written by his three sons, Don, Bobby and Ben Morgan. When the party to celebrate the book actually kicked off on Wednesday in Dermot's local, Kiely's in Mount Merrion, the boys were getting quite blase about all the media attention, although Don, who wrote much of the book, admitted it had all been "Bewildering. I'm not used to all this."
The book has been described as "a wake in book form" and Wednesday night's gathering was a suitable collection of old friends and admirers, many of whom were also there at the original wake nine months ago. However with guests such as Gerry Stembridge, Frank Kelly, Barry Devlin, Pat Kenny, Dermot's brother Donagh Morgan, his old friend Pat Finn and his partner Fiona Clarke, and with a subject as memorable as Dermot himself, both the book and the party had a constant air of celebration. Not least because five-yearold Ben had rallied a group of pals who occupied themselves, rather successfully, in trying to drown out Pat Kenny's speech.