THE IRISH TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER
AN POST BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR
''Gorgeous'' Pandora Sykes
''A rare and beautiful book'' Marian Keyes
''Tender, sad and side-splittingly funny'' Annie MacManus
''A delight'' Dara -Briain
S-as 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 (most of the time), and S-as at that point was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars and the actual location of heaven than the political climate.
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? is a book about a family of argumentative, loud, 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. It is the moving, often amusing and co
