Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

Such wonderful writing – Nigella Lawson
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 – Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Reasons to be Cheerful
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 – Marian Keyes
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died is a delight. Both moving and funny in huge measure – Dara Ó Briain
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 – Annie MacManus
Grotesquely funny – Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games
Melancholy and sweet and funny and sad all at once * Jay Rayner *
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 – Pandora Sykes
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 – Arthur Mathews, co-creator of Father Ted and Toast of London
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 – Patrick Freyne, author of Okay, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea
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 – Emer McLysaght
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died is so funny and wonderfully written, I love it – Maeve Higgins

Seamas O’Reilly is a writer and author who has worked as a columnist for The Observer, The Irish Times and The Irish Examiner. He is Features Editor of London satirical magazine, The Fence, and his writing has appeared in The Guardian, the New Statesman and The New York Times.

His memoir Did Ye Hear Mammy Died topped The Irish Times Bestseller List for seven weeks and won Best Biography at the 2021 Irish Book Awards. Seamas currently lives in Walthamstow, London with his family.

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