Author: Phyllis WhitsellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781910335482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Finding Tipperary Mary
Author: Phyllis WhitsellPublisher: Matador
ISBN: 9781784624941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Finding Tipperary Mary is Phyllis Whitsell’s extraordinary tale of finding the mother who gave her up for adoption and using her job as a district nurse to secretly care for her, never revealing that she was her lost daughter. Phyllis was adopted aged 4. Despite being told that her parents had died of TB, she always believed that her mother was alive and, once old enough, was determined to track her down. While Phyllis was growing up in Birmingham, training as a nurse, getting married and starting her own family, her mother Bridget, known locally as Tipperary Mary, a trouble maker with alcohol problems and a tendency to cause mayhem, was living in Balsall Heath, which was then a red light district of Birmingham. So when Phyllis, after a long struggle, finally caught up with Bridget, she had to shield her own family from the problems this would cause. Hiding behind her district nurse’s uniform, Phyllis, with no authority to do so, simply added Bridget to her daily district rounds; bathing her, taking her clean clothes, tending the wounds from her dysfunctional life and offering her what love she could. Phyllis cared for her mother in this way from 1981 to 1990 – without once telling Bridget that she was the little girl she had given away all those years ago.
Finding Tipperary Mary
Author: Phyllis WhitsellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781910335338
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The astonishing real story of a daughter's search for her own past - and the desperate mother who gave her up. Phyllis Whitsell began the search for her birth mother as a young woman - and although it was many years before she finally met her, their lives had crossed on the journey without their knowledge.
Author: Phyllis WhitsellUnconditional Forgiveness
Author: Mary Hayes GriecoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1582702993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Outlines an eight-step program for achieving physical and emotional well-being through practicing forgiveness, covering psychological and spiritual areas with strategies in such areas as letting go of fear, releasing expectations and separating oneself from harm. Original.
The Burning Of Bridget Cleary
Author: Angela BourkePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446412326
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first, some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby hill, from where she would emerge, riding a white horse. But then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Her husband, father, aunt and four cousins were arrested and charged, while newspapers in nearby Clonmel, and then in Dublin, Cork, London and further afield attempted to make sense of what had happened. In this lurid and fascinating episode, set in the last decade of the nineteenth century, we witness the collision of town and country, of storytelling and science, of old and new. The torture and burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in 1895 which continues to reverberate more than a hundred years later. Winner of the Irish Times Prize for Non-Fiction
The Blue Washing Bag: A Gripping 1940s Irish Family Saga
Author: Mary ClancyPublisher: Poolbeg Press
ISBN: 9781781997314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Denied her real identity, she will find the truth behind her birth! 1940 The Payton twins, born to an unmarried mother in a small town in rural Ireland, are brought to the children's home by the Parish Priest. Constantly reminded of their mother's unforgivable fall from grace, they suffer the consequences of her shameful act. Separated without warning at the age of eight, the bond they shared is broken. 1960 Molly Payton arrives in town. Shiny red suitcase in her hand - looking forward to a clean slate - hopeful of a bright future. She is forced to leave again less than a year later, traumatized ... having left her baby behind. 1985 Years later, Daisy discovers the distressing truth of her past. Abandoned at birth, left at the side of the street in a washing bag. She has encountered many hardships on her journey which only serve to strengthen her resolve, to prepare her as she sets out to find those who are responsible ... and make them pay.
I Called Her Mary
Author: Thomas GormanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578981932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Peg Holland became pregnant as a teenager in a conservative village in 1950s Ireland. She knew her life would never be the same again. She was sent away in shame only to find courage and wisdom deep within her soul that led her to the greatest life, husband, and family.Being poor and not having many options, Peg's parents sent her to Sean Ross Abbey to deliver the baby. After her baby, Mary, is born, Peg and Mary are heckled and ridiculed by townspeople for ninth months until Peg decides she must give Mary up for adoption so she can have a better life. This decision haunts her the rest of her life. Having nothing left to keep her in Ireland, Peg leaves home to work as an indentured servant for a family in America. Mick O'Hagan is swept away by Peg and wants to marry her. She refuses due to the secret of her baby that no one knows about. After seeking advice, Peg's mother tells her to not start her new life off with a lie and to tell Mick everything if she truly loves him.Fifty years after the birth of Mary, Peg receives a phone call from her daughter. They are reunited and the family only grows bigger and stronger because of their love. They share many stories of what each other missed out on but as the stories are told new details emerge. The story that Peg told of the adoption and giving Mary away don't match up to the letters documents that Mary possesses. After Mick's passing, Peg cleans out the closets and stumbles across these documents that Mary shared with her. Fighting past the trauma of giving Mary up at such a young age, memories come flooding back and a new truth of what actually happened comes to light - Mary lived with the nuns at the abbey for a year. On the back deck, Peg and Mary continue their beautiful relationship and reflect upon how wonderful, despite all the heartache, their lives turned out.
Author: Richard TillinghastMy Secret Mother
Author: Phyllis WhitsellPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1443451266
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Two separate lives, one heartbreaking secret When Phyllis Whitsell was just eight months old, her mother died of tuberculosis. At least, that what’s Phyllis grew up being told. But Phyllis never believed it was true. She prayed every night for God to take care of her birth mother, holding onto the hope that she was alive and out there, somewhere. Finally, after years of searching, Phyllis finds her birth mother—Bridget, known locally as Tipperary Mary. But the loving reunion Phyllis had hoped for is complicated by a difficult past. The mother she discovers is a broken woman—a victim of early onset dementia, an alcoholic, and a woman crushed by years of missing the daughter she gave up. Phyllis, by this time a community nurse with her own children, keeps the discovery from her family. She begins to care for Bridget—visiting her at home, buying her new clothes, tending to her maladies and giving her as much love as she can. All the while, Phyllis struggles with telling Bridget her true identity. And when she eventually introduces her son to his grandmother, Bridget doesn’t believe her. Bridget never fully understands that her tender new caregiver is the daughter she lost so long ago. My Secret Mother is the extraordinary story of forgiveness and compassion, as a daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey from abandonment into love.
