TY - BOOK AU - O'Reilly,Séamas TI - Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? SN - 9780708899236 (pbk.) : AV - PN5146 U1 - 070.44932092 23 KW - O'Reilly, Seamas KW - Media Studies KW - ukslc KW - Northern Ireland KW - History KW - 1968-1998 KW - 1998- N1 - Originally published: 2021 N2 - 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 ER -