Nice to see this thread resurrected. Interested reading my posts too. Poor Mum crying most of the day ….. her heart always was in Ireland, always.
Coming from a large family with 8 kids and lots of extended family she came to England when she married my Dad and, as I said in my post, his family were not close. Dad was also very quiet and reserved and wasn’t one for social events. So she came from a home full of singing and laughter and everyone doing “turns” and bursting at the seams with people to a very much quieter home and she found that very difficult.
Right up until she died, apart from the last 2 days when she was completely out of it, she talked of nothing else but going “home”. I asked her whether she meant to our family home many times but she always said “No, to Ireland.”
