Early Life
McGovern was one of nine children. Growing up in a poor household, he had a stammer until the age of eight. He attended a Jesuit Primary School, where beatings were common. He taught in a secondary comprehensive school, where he organised the end of school play.
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“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)