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The Black & Blues: Part II, chapter v

in which Meara has a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

Late next Saturday night you have another panic attack, and since your daytime is everyone else’s nighttime, Danny is asleep, and you don’t want to wake up Josselin and Frankie, so you instead huddle in a pile of pillows in the corner of the living room. Your headphones have been on so long your ears are starting to sweat. They’re probably way too loud to be safe. At first, you forget you have medication, but thankfully about five minutes into the thick of it, you remember, and you take one. It knocks you out for a couple of hours. If that’s what it does to you in a full fledged panic attack, there’s no way you can use this at work. Maybe a half dose when you have to be up and about? How can you test it, though? It’s meant to slow you down; if you take it while you’re feeling well it’ll probably just knock you out. You’ll just have to push through until you have a chance to test it. Sunday and Monday go all right. But Tuesday night, all you can think about is your therapy appointment the next morning, and no matter how much you try to breathe, and try to rationalize, and try to tell yourself This Is A Good Thing, they are going to get you meds, the worry spiral of What if they don’t think you’re bad enough to need them, what if they write you off, what if they’re homophobic or super Christian like almost everyone in your old town was, and it just builds and builds until Rodney finds you crying in the back room on your break and says, “Hey, kid, if you need to go home early, I don’t mind staying an extra hour or two. Could always use the money.” And he’s visibly uncomfortable offering this favor to you, even though he’s never been mean. Some older men are like that, you guess. They have to make it seem like they’re doing it for themselves instead of someone else. Like it’s a convenience instead of a kindness. So he walks you up to the shift manager’s office down the hall from the break room, and he knocks on the door. You can’t make words happen because you feel like you’re hyperventilating, so Rodney tells your boss, “Hey, I need a few extra hours and asked Meara if I could take the rest of his shift. That okay?”

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@killiandonnelly My face is sore from laughing @MrsBrownsBoys @TheO2. What a funny, wonderful bunch of people. Thank you @OCarrollFiona

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Mrs. Brown’s Boys  -  RTE One / BBC One  -  January 1, 2011 - Present

Comedy (34 episodes to date)

Running Time:  30 - 60 minutes

Stars:

Brendan O'Carroll as Agnes. Brown

Pat “Pepsi” Shields as Mark Brown

Rory Cowan as Rory Brown

Jennifer Gibney as Cathy Brown

Paddy Houlihan as Dermott Brown

Amanda Woods as Betty Brown

Fiona O'Carroll as Maria Brown

Eilish O'Carroll as Winnie McGoogan

Danny O'Carroll as Buster Brady

Martin Delany as Trevor Brown

Gary Lilburn as Father Quinn

Conor Moloney as Father Damien

Gary Hollywood as Dino Doyle

Dermot O'Neill as Grandad Brown

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11 Mothers in Literature

by Ann Riordan, Cork City Libraries

To celebrate Mother's Day next Sunday 31st March, I set out to write a post honouring notable mothers in literature. Easy, I thought, but it was not.

I looked through my bookshelves, my library ebook app history, my Kindle, and I found very few titles that featured mothers. I thought back to the books I loved when I was young, and apart from Little Women and The Railway Children, I recalled very few notable mother characters. In fact, the lack of a mother is very often a plot device in children's fiction - Harry Potter is an orphan, as is Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden, and Pip, Oliver Twist, Heidi, James of the Giant Peach fame, Danny (Champion of the World) and Sophie from The BFG. 

In adult fiction it was even harder. Mothers, if they feature at all, are the often cause of the protagonists woes, either by interfering or abandoning. And as for portrayals of stepmothers? Well that's a whole other blog post.

So, I present this list of eleven notable mothers in literature in honour of unsung reading mothers everywhere. The mothers who introduce their children to reading with a bedtime story, the mothers who enrich childhoods with trips to libraries, the mothers who pass on a love for the precious world of stories. The literature may not reflect you, but we will keep doing it anyway.

1. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Margaret March, 'Marmee', guides, copes, and above all loves the March sisters as only a mother can. She is the probably the strongest mother character in this list.

2. The Railway Children by E. Nesbit. Although never named beyond 'Mother' (before you say it, Father is just 'Father' too), she is a writer as well as mother.

3. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. Even though we know John's mother, Tabitha Wheelwright, is deceased from the very first page, her character strongly influences the story throughout.

4. Fionnuala O'Carroll Kelly from Ross O'Carroll Kelly novels by Paul Howard. Strong, formidable, no nonsense, an unashamed proponent of self-care. Is Ross so badly behaved because of her, or in spite of her?

5. Daughter by Jane Shemilt. An interesting psychological thriller that explores the dynamic of a mother-daughter relationship.

6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Mrs Bennet isn't the frivolous character she appears at first glance.

7. Night Waking by Sarah Moss. Anna Bennett is a writer and mother of young children, setting up home on a remote Scottish island. An accurate portrait of motherhood in the early years.

8. Room by Emma Donoghue. Joy Newsome's survival and mothering instincts in the most dreadful circumstance still take my breath away.

9. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth. Sophie Portnoy is the archetypal overbearing mother.

10. We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. The character of Eva Khatchadourian, more than any other, divides opinion on nature versus nurture.

11. His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Marisa Coulter, is arguably the most power-driven and cruel mother in literature.

Remember to check the library catalogue at www.corkcitylibraries.ie to reserve titles from this list.

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For Facts Sake | Q&A With Fiona O'Carroll

For Facts Sake | Q&A With Fiona O’Carroll

Fiona, in one of the shows, you compete against your brother?  Did that bring back any childhood rivalries?

Not really. We are all pretty competitive but against each other it’s really just a bit of fun. It allows for some good banter! (Danny might say different 😂)

Does Brendan make a good panel show host?

Brendan (aka Dad) makes a great host anywhere. Although on this show I’m sure he probably…

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The Black & Blues: Part I, Chapter x

You drop your school work for the next two weeks. You’re not going to be able to keep your scholarship and you can’t afford school without it. Maybe someday you can go to a community college and get an associates’. But not today. You pack all your things up except for what you need right now, like your shower stuff and your computer, so you can be ready to go when they kick you out. Danny does the same, because if you’re going to be roommates in a real apartment, it’s stupid for him to pay for a whole summer here. He’ll have to move out at the same time. Josselin doesn’t deal with his landlord much, but Frankie knows him pretty well. She met him when he was a customer at the gardening store she used to work at before she went back to school. He came in pretty regularly, so when she was looking for a place, he gave her a deal. But they’re good tenants, too. They’re quiet and Familiar is well behaved. They don’t cause trouble. So when Frankie says, “I think I can get you something,” you believe her. You believe her because you have to.

In which Meara learns it's okay to need to start over from scratch.

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This is the end of Part I!! Part II starts mid-July and will be updating once a week instead of twice a week to give me some buffer time for Part III so hopefully I don't have to take too big a hiatus in the future. :)

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