The author, Séamas O'Reilly

So you feel like buying my excellent and very good memoir, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died but aren't sure if it's as good as I keep saying. So here's a few pieces from and about the book, which might entice you to buy a copy right now from mammybook.com

One of the best books I've ever read about Bloody Sunday, The Troubles or Derry itself. It bursts with the personality of the city and its people, living and lost; not just their pain but their humour, their dignity. It is a miraculous achievement. You simply must read this book.

Can't explain why but I need my half time analysis done in a studio. It's just not the same when they do it pitchside. It bums me out. It's not the real thing. It's sleeping on a plane, it's having lunch at your desk.

Enoch Burke, in gale force winds, strapping himself to the school gates like Quint attaching his fishing harness in Jaws.

Massive news! @ooofilms are working with the incredible @shockproofbeats AKA Séamas O'Reilly on #DEVOLVED our new Comedy for @Channel4 and @NIScreen.   Devolved is a governmental workplace comedy about people who hate work and rarely govern.   channel4.com/press/news/cha…

Some news. channel4.com/press/news/cha…

This week, I try and fail to pick a side in the ever-tedious 'helicopter' vs 'free-range' parenting debate. I do probably coddle my children, but would I ever be brave enough to stop? theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

On offence.

Some time ago, you might recall I experienced the worst thing that can happen to a person. I'm finally ready to talk about it. My Toddler Smashed Our TV: A Survivor's Story. (Photo writer's own) theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Derry will always remember 🏴

A piece I wrote for the last issue of @The_Fence_Mag is now online! It’s about a time in which I, as a young teen, found myself engulfed in the social politics of a Big Brother forum. It’s also about some of the people I met on there & how they shaped me the-fence.com/day-1509-in-th…

Possibly my favourite piece from @The_Fence_Mag #22 is now online: @gary_is_hip on a misspent youth, forming allegiences and forging his identity, while toiling in the torrid gossip mines of a Big Brother forum. the-fence.com/day-1509-in-th…

In my school, Sex Ed was one day where a priest showed a video in which a horny farmer got over his lusty cravings via cold showers and press ups. So @The_Fence_Mag would like to know if you fared as badly. We want your worst, best and most memorable incidences of SEX EDUCATION

A friend’s just told me his kids’ school WhatsApp spent Christmas embroiled in a week-long debate over whether Elf on the Shelf constitutes surveillance culture. So PARENTS, I'm asking: what’s the wildest, weirdest or worst you’ve experienced in the dreaded groupchat?

If a 2-year-old girl from any white nation was shot dead by any other army it would be all over Western news for days. Palestinians, though, don't matter.

This is the third long-form profile @Coramazov and I have written. It might be our best so far, at least, I think it's our largest in scope, probably our longest. Have a read @The_Fence_Mag the-fence.com/speaking-in-sm…

Fresh off filleting Lord Lebedev, @milesellingham and @Coramazov turn their attentions to Justin Welby: the man who buried a queen, crowned a king, and tore a church apart. Phenomenal profile of the worst Archbishop in centuries. the-fence.com/speaking-in-sm…