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.
Author: Phyllis WhitsellFinding 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.
Unconditional Forgiveness
Author: Mary Hayes GriecoPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1582702993
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Grieco offers the Eight Steps to Freedom, a simple, effective program that teaches readers how to completely forgive in order to achieve both emotional and physical well-being. This step-by-step method incorporates emotional, energetic, and spiritual components that are accessible to everyone and offer lasting success.
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.
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
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.
Truevine
Author: Beth MacyPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316337560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.
Knocknagow
Author: Charles Joseph KickhamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781298391636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
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