Did ye hear Mammy died? : a memoir / Séamas O'Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Reilly, Séamas, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Reilly, Séamas--Childhood and youth.

O'Reilly, Séamas.

Journalists--Northern Ireland--Biography.

Journalists.

Journalists--Family relationships--Northern Ireland.

Authors--Biography.

Authors.

Northern Ireland--Biography.

Northern Ireland.

Families--Northern Ireland.

Families.

Northern Ireland--Social conditions--20th century.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

231 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First North American edition.

Other Title:

Did you hear Mammy died?

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Summary:

Séamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble, but Séamas was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars, and the actual location of heaven than the political climate. ­An instant bestseller in Ireland, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? is a book about a family of loud, argumentative, musical, sarcastic, grief-stricken siblings, shepherded into adulthood by a man whose foibles and reticence were matched only by his love for his children and his determination that they would flourish.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

2. Halloween

3. Mother's Day

4. Numbers

5. This One Time Daddy Lifted a Car

6. An Entire Chapter About Dogs and Priests

7. Fermanagh

8. The Forge

9. Fame!

10. Jeremy

11. The Grand North Atlantic Home-Taped VHS Archive

12. Notable Explosions, 1988-2005.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780316424257

0316424250

OCLC:

1294391856

Publisher Number:

0025973235