What’s Irish for ‘I Love You’?
What says all the things you cannot say?
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5 min readApr 4, 2024
‘You’re a right looking eejit,’ I said to my mother.
She was in London. In hospital. She was dying.
Her face was pale and still. I was reading The Country Girls to her. I put on the Irish accent I learned from summers spent in my mother’s hometown of Belfast. Now and then, O’Brien’s words…