Director feels the warmth of John McGahern's Rising Sun

Pat Collins, the director of the new adaptation of the late John McGahern's best-selling novel That They May Face the Rising Sun, has told RTÉ Entertainment that the film is resonating with audiences more than he could have imagined.

"I knew we were trying to make the best film we could, but we didn't know it was going to resonate the way it has resonated - and you don't actually know until you put an audience in front of it," Collins told RTÉ Entertainment."It's amazing really that that's the case but it's true." "A lot of that has to do with the material, I suppose. It's to do with John McGahern. There's such respect for writing in Ireland that if there's something adapted from a John McGahern book, it becomes something that people talk about.

"I did say to John it was my favourite of his books along with the collected short stories," Collins recalled of their time working on the 2005 documentary John McGahern: A Private World. "It was a very enjoyable experience up there in Clonbur and Corr na Móna, Loch Na Fooey. It was special."

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