Booklet  (2008)  
 
An Information List of all Varieties. p3
1962. Paddy McGredy - 57/1074. Nicknamed New Look. For my sister.

Book  (1996)  Page(s) 61.  
 
Paddy McGredy Cluster-flowered (Floribunda) bush. Description... clusters of rosy-carmine cupped double blooms, 3.5 in (9 cm) across)... named for the raiser's sister...

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 428.  
 
Floribunda, medium pink, 1962, (MACpa); 'Spartan' x 'Tzigane'; McGredy, S., IV; J&P. Bud ovoid; flowers deep rose-pink, double (33 petals), cupped, large (4 in.) blooms in clusters; fragrant; foliage leathery; vigorous, bushy growth.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 241.  Includes photo(s).
 
Paddy McGredy (MACpa) Cluster-flowered floribunda. Parentage: 'Spartan' x 'Tzigane'. Northern Ireland 1962. Description and cultivation... Large, fragrant, hybrid tea-shaped, globular blooms, grow singly or in large clusters, and are coloured rose pink to carmine. This rose attracted much attention when it was introduced because of its felicitous combination of hybrid tea and floribunda characteristics... susceptible to black spot...

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 310.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1986)  
 
p79. 'Molly McGredy'. ....'Paddy McGredy' blood did the rest, adding form and colour fastness.

p97. Both 'Paddy McGredy' and 'Prima Ballerina' give a high percentage of seedlings with mildew, so it is a wonder 'Mullard Jubilee' is so healthy.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 128.  
 
‘Paddy McGredy'     Medium  —  Rose red   Remontant    P2   H2  ** 
Some  people call it deep pink; I have yet to learn where pink ends and red begins. Is pink not another way of saying light red? If so, surely deep pink equals red? It is convenient, I think, to use the agreeable words 'rose red' to bridge the gap.    'Paddy McGredy'  came  from Sam  McGredy  in 1962, its parents 'Spartan' x Tzigane' ; the latter was a red and yellow Hybrid Tea descended from 'Peace', and assured of a short life in a cold climate by its thick, soft pith. Bad parents can have good  children, which is fortunate for 'Paddy McGredy',  who had the rust-laden 'Fashion' as a grandmother.    With 'Paddy   McGredy'   came  the realization that Floribundas were able to produce flowers as large as Hybrid Teas....

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 34.  
 
Pamela Morrah. Trial Six - The Pick of the Bunch. 'Aenne Burda'....is similar in growth to the compact prolific 'Paddy McGredy' bred in 1962, one of the first floribunda/HT type now becoming so popular.

Book  (1974)  Page(s) 117.  
 
Two of his best roses that came from his breeding-sheds carry his sisters' names - 'Paddy McGredy' and....

Book  (1974)  Page(s) 80.  
 
Leonard Hollis. Symposium on the Twelve Best Roses of Hybrid Tea type for Garden Display.
A noticeable trend in recent years has been the crossing of the hybrid teas with the floribundas; this has resulted in many roses of intermediate type, usually have smaller flowers than the hybrid teas but of better form than the floribundas. These have been saddled with the rather unwieldly appellation of floribundas, HT type. Some of them (e.g. 'Paddy McGredy') have flowers as large as those of many of the hybrid teas....