RB McDowell obit, interesting slants

ApeXaviour

The Telegraph Obituary is kind of funny in its blatantly sectarian tone:

"[his] eccentricities, conversation and wit were celebrated on both sides of the St George’s Channel."

An interesting read nonetheless.

"As junior dean from 1956 to 1969, responsible for undergraduate discipline, McDowell was reluctant to inflict a punishment if matters could be sorted out amicably over a glass of sherry."

The Irish Time's Prolific and rigorous Trinity Historian thankfully takes a slightly less editorialised approach.

Tears in Rain

Seemed like a great character, pity that he was before my time mostly. I feel ashamed for only having heard of him through news of his death.

NSNO

I remember being greatly amused and impressed watching him on the Seven Ages DVD, he struck me as one of those characters that Dublin of old was famous for.

Tears in Rain

ApeXaviour wrote: »

The Telegraph Obituary is kind of funny in its blatantly sectarian tone:

"[his] eccentricities, conversation and wit were celebrated on both sides of the St George’s Channel."

An interesting read nonetheless.

"As junior dean from 1956 to 1969, responsible for undergraduate discipline, McDowell was reluctant to inflict a punishment if matters could be sorted out amicably over a glass of sherry."

The Irish Time's Prolific and rigorous Trinity Historian thankfully takes a slightly less editorialised approach.

The sherry story doesn't match at all with the description in the Irish Times, but interestingly, I did come across a 'glass of sherry' story relating to a different man, R.B.D. French, who was someone's tutor in 1969. I'm guessing the writer of the Telegraph story got the two (similarly initialed) men mixed up.

http://content.yudu.com/A1i4hs/trinitytoday14/resources/28.htm

Pet

"St George's Channel"? Really?

Rabble rabble post-colonial something rabble.

El Siglo

Read both obituaries, the Irish Times was a fair bit more balanced and paints what I can imagine to be the most remembered picture of him; sharp witted, charming, eccentric, eclectic historian.