A documentary on the life and work of Michael Scott will be broadcast by RTÉ next week. Directed by his daughter, CiaríScott, it is remarkably frank - a brave and often moving film, rather than a dry retrospective.
It reveals, for example, that Michael's mother drowned in the Dodder when he was 15 and the Catholic Church denied her a proper funeral, having deemed her death a suicide. Anthony, his own eldest son, was diagnosed as schizophrenic at UCD and later committed suicide.
Another son, architect Niall Scott, recalls that the Geragh - the house his father built in Sandycove in 1938 - was so cold that they might all have died from hypothermia. He also talks about how his mother coped with her husband being such a "ladies man".
There are also contributions from his other sons; artists Pat Scott and Louis le Brocquy, who knew Scott well; and Terry Keane - in her first interview for television since her Late Late Show appearance - on the close relationship between Scott and Charlie Haughey.
Michael Scott: A Changing Man will be broadcast on RTÉ1 at 10.15pm next Tuesday
