Did ye hear mammy died? /
by O'Reilly, Seamas.
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BookPublisher: London : Fleet, 2022Description: 225 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780708899236 (pbk.) :; 0708899234 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 070.4493 ORESubject(s): O'Reilly, Seamas -- Childhood and youth | Media Studies | Media Studies | Northern Ireland | c 1990 to c 1999 | Biography: general | Autobiography: historical, political & military | Memoirs | Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998 | Northern Ireland -- History -- 1998-Summary: This is Seamas O'Reilly's memoir of growing up as one of eleven children in rural Northern Ireland in the 1990s after the death of their mother when Seamas was five. He delves into his family - his pleasingly eccentric, reticent but deeply loving father; his rambunctious siblings, intent on enforcing a byzantine age-based hierarchy; and the numerous bewildering friends, relations, and neighbours who blew in and out to 'help'. Seamas describes how his mother's death changed his childhood relationships with everyone and everything, as knowledge of his tragic experience preceded him.
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 070.4493 ORE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 23/10/2024 | 003106921X |
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| 032.02 WHI Whitaker's almanack 2009 | 032.02 WHI Whitaker's 2018 : | 070.4409 CAL Wicked whispers: | 070.4493 ORE Did ye hear mammy died? / | 070.573 LUK Publishing e-books for dummies | 070.5797 EAG Read this if you want to be YouTube famous / | 070.92 NIC Perfect bound : a memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved me / |
Originally published: 2021.
This is Seamas O'Reilly's memoir of growing up as one of eleven children in rural Northern Ireland in the 1990s after the death of their mother when Seamas was five. He delves into his family - his pleasingly eccentric, reticent but deeply loving father; his rambunctious siblings, intent on enforcing a byzantine age-based hierarchy; and the numerous bewildering friends, relations, and neighbours who blew in and out to 'help'. Seamas describes how his mother's death changed his childhood relationships with everyone and everything, as knowledge of his tragic experience preceded him.
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