Publisher's Synopsis
At 14, Pat Doherty started working as a builder for his uncle in Buncrana, County Donegal. With four years' experience, he left with several friends to find work in England at 19. They worked for Wimpey to begin with, but by the time he was 22, he had his own business supplying brickwork and carpentry to building contractors. Pat built an empire that became the family-owned Harcourt Developments, employing over 1500 people. With properties in nine countries and a string of major developments, they're probably best known for the regeneration of Belfast's Titanic Quarter. Always understated and shy of the limelight that many developers thrive on, he survived economic crashes in London in the 1970s and NAMA after Ireland's economic collapse. Pat believes in the importance of art, culture and society, and has been painted by Lucien Freud. Curran explores what drives this quiet Donegal man.
