Such wonderful writing

I cannot stress enough how much I love this funny, adorable memoir. Not only hilarious, tender, absurd, delightful and charming, but written with such skill as to render it unforgettable. I now can’t wait to see the TV series and/or to become Séamas’s best friend

I laughed until I choked, I cried BUCKETS, I have NEVER been so charmed, I fell in GIANT LOVE with Daddy O’Reilly. Seriously, this is a rare and beautiful book

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died is a delight. Both moving and funny in huge measure

Tender, sad and side-splittingly funny, this is the unforgettable story of how a boy with ten siblings and no mother grew into a man. It’s a love letter to Northern Ireland and all the children, dogs, priests and struggling parents that live there. I adored it

Grotesquely funny

Melancholy and sweet and funny and sad all at once

An almost improbable true story of an Irish man bringing up eleven (yes, eleven) children on his own, after his wife dies. Séamas is the ninth of these “half-orphans” and he writes about his childhood and grief with such pathos and wit – even the chapter on his father’s love of dogs is exquisite. A gorgeous memoir

I enjoyed this immensely. I laughed a lot (often out loud). A heartfelt tribute to an alarmingly large family held together by a quietly heroic father

Beautiful and funny and beautiful because it’s funny. It’s also sad and life affirming and all about loss and border life and quietly heroic fatherhood and chaotically excessive siblinghood and priests and dogs. I loved it

I’ve been struggling to commit to a book for weeks but I’ve just read the first few pages of Did Ye Hear Mammy Died and I’M BACK BABY

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died is so funny and wonderfully written, I love it