Finding Tipperary Mary

Download or read book Finding Tipperary Mary written by Phyllis Whitsell and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finding Tipperary Mary written by Phyllis Whitsell and published by Matador. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Finding Tipperary Mary written by Phyllis Whitsell and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Song for Bridget written by Phyllis Whitsell and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unconditional Forgiveness written by Mary Hayes Grieco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Blue Washing Bag: A Gripping 1940s Irish Family Saga written by Mary Clancy and published by Poolbeg Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Burning Of Bridget Cleary written by Angela Bourke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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