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The Mammy
The Mammy | Brendan O'Carroll
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The Mammy is the first book in Brendan OCarrolls famous Mrs Browne trilogy, the inspiration for the hugely successful TV series, Mrs Browns Boys. Agnes Browne is a formidable woman. By day she sells fruit and vegetables from a stall in Dublins bustling Moore Street. By night, she is wife to Redser Browne and mammy, nurse, teacher and psychiatrist to her unruly brood of seven children. Then Redser dies. How Agnes copes with widowhood, with the help of her best pal Marion, an unquenchable sense of humour and the attentions of the amorous Pierre, makes this a memorable and moving account of one womans life and of inner-city Dublin in the late 60s. Praise for The Mammy: Brendan OCarroll is a born storyteller The Independent A sure tonic Cork Examiner Roddy Doyle had better watch out Connacht Tribune Brendan OCarroll is an author, playwright, TV host, sitcom writer, award-winning entertainer and Irelands most outrageous comedian. The Mammy is the first book in his famous Mrs Browne trilogy, which also includes The Chisellers and The Granny. The trilogy is the inspiration for Brendans hugely successful TV series, Mrs Browns Boys, in which he stars in the title role.
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TheBookHippie
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#TWO4Tuesday

1. My purse is like Mary Poppins, you wouldn‘t believe the things I carry. 😂😂😂

2. Tagged- it‘s hard to describe but I laughed I cried I thought it was so unusual… so I‘ll call it quirky 🤷🏻‍♀️

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 5mo
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TheKidUpstairs
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Pickpick

Delightful. Hilarious and heartwarming in equal measure.

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TheBookHippie
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#TLT
#ThreeListThursday @dabbe

1. Tagged book
I fell out of bed reading it first time around I was laughing so hard.📗
2. Christmas Vacation every ducking time LMAO🎬
3. Baby‘s Day Out 🎬

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Every one tagged 🔖

dabbe #1: Never read it; it's on the TBR! 🤩
#2: Oh, yes. #aclassic
#3: Never saw! On the movie list!
Thanks for playing! 🧡💜💛
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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick It just isn't Christmas until Clark Griswold has a holiday meltdown. 8mo
TheBookHippie @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I watch it almost every day October to January 🤣🤣😵‍💫🤣🤣 8mo
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TheBookHippie
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I read this years ago for IRL Bookclub and fell out of bed laughing … #winterreadathondailychallenge

Andrew65 Now that must be good 😂😂😂 1y
Deblovestoread I LOVE this series! 1y
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TheBookHippie @Andrew65 It‘s a fun series you‘d enjoy it! 1y
Andrew65 @TheBookHippie Have stacked it! 1y
julieclair I'm sold. Stacked! 1y
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TheBookHippie
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💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Favorite Irish Read of all time
☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️

GingerAntics SUCH a good book!!! 3y
Bookwormjillk This was such a good book 3y
Deblovestoread Love these books! 3y
Cathythoughts Great picture 👍🏻 3y
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GingerAntics
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This is 100% accurate...and also better than my review. 🤣😂🤣
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

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GingerAntics
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Pickpick

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

This book is such a joy to read. It has heartbreaking moments, but O‘Carroll has a way of delivering them that still has you seeing the bright side. I laughed. I cried. I laughed until I cried. Agnes Browne, the Mammy, is a strong woman with a big heart. I love her. I can‘t wait to read the next one. Good thing I bought the whole trilogy at once.
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy #AgnesBrowne

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GingerAntics
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What a perfect ending. ☘️☘️☘️💚💚💚🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

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GingerAntics
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😂🤣😂☘️☘️☘️💙💙💙
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

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GingerAntics
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🤣😂🤣☘️☘️☘️💙💙💙 I‘m in stitches and tears, left and right around here.
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

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GingerAntics
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@TheBookHippie DID THAT CRAZY🤬 NUN SERIOUSLY JUST CUT CATHY‘S HAIR BECAUSE SHE DIDN‘T LIKE HER BLOODY BANGS, JUST TO GET BACK AT HER?! 🤬🤬🤬#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

TheBookHippie Yes!!! 😩😩😩😝 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 I‘m going to need more caffeine and profanity now. What is with people (especially older people) thinking it‘s acceptable to just cut people‘s hair against their bloody will?! 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics done to me until I left home 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie ugh! Luckily? (I think) may parents made me believe it was my choice to keep cutting my hair. So I always felt like it was my choice, but I‘ve come to see that I was totally subject to what my parents wanted. 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie Agnes‘s response to finding out what Sister Madeline did to Cathy is perfection!!! 💙💙💙 3y
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GingerAntics
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💀💀💀
I‘m dying.
Agnes doesn‘t believe in organisms, but she knows all about the evacuating.
💀💀💀
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

TheBookHippie I fell out the bed laughing 🤣🤣 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie 🤣😂🤣 they just keep saying it!!! It‘s killing me. 💀💀💀 I had to stop drinking while reading. I had to stop between chapters for juice. 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics seriously the best March read of all time 🤣🤣🤣 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie abso-bloody-lutely 3y
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GingerAntics
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💀💀💀 oh my jaysus!!! 💀💀💀
@TheBookHippie so it‘s Wee Trevor in the cover than? 😂🤣😂
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

TheBookHippie Yes I think so! I seriously always have wanted to have coffee with this woman ! What a storyteller ! 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie with Mammy or Brendan O‘Carroll? I think I‘d take either. 😂 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I agree but I meant the Mammy! 3y
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GingerAntics @TheBookHippie she‘d be a hoot to spend time with, wouldn‘t she? Then to find out her husband died that morning. 🤣😂🤣 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I seriously laughed cried and hollered reading these books 🤣😅 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I can see why. I was trying to keep it down since everyone else was asleep at the time. 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics daily problem for me 3y
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GingerAntics
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As part of the March celebration of all things Irish, I decided to focus each day between 1 March and St. Patrick‘s Day on one of the 6 virtues or one of the 10 values (see how perfectly that works out). The first virtue is honour, and this seems the perfect quote to go with it.
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy #Honour

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GingerAntics
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I love O‘Carroll‘s view of strong women!!! It sounds like his wife is a lucky woman. This suddenly because a great book for Women‘s History Month.
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

TheBookHippie I loved those books 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie I think you‘re where I heard about them first. 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics Probably 😝 I love them. 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie 😂🤣😂 I wish the madness of my day would go away so I could read past the introduction. 3y
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GingerAntics
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May the games begin on this treasure!!!
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy

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LazyOwl
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I read this for a IRL bookclub pick and I was initially sceptical about reading, as it's not normally the type of book I would pick up, but I was pleasantly surprised.

This had me genuinely laughing. I was reading art work at one point trying to keep the giggles inside and not burst out laughing.

This was definitely a pick.

Fr3NcHtOaSt After the other post you put up about this book I borrowed it from my library on my kindle and started reading it just now. Only a few pages in but dang it has me going. I have a feeling I will love this. 3y
LazyOwl @Fr3NcHtOaSt It's so funny, I hope you enjoy 3y
kezzlou85 Oh I loved this book. Its so funny. 3y
Fr3NcHtOaSt Finished reading this. Loved it. Short but quite funny and enjoyable. 3y
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LazyOwl
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This books has had me in tears 🤣

TheBookHippie I love this series of books. 3y
Fr3NcHtOaSt I gotta look into these. This has me dying 😂 3y
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GingerAntics
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I am really excited to have this series. The covers are absolutely precious. I‘ve heard so many wonderful things about this series. I can‘t wait to dig in.
#BrendanOCarroll #TheMammy #TheChisellers #TheGranny #AgnusBrowne

TheBookHippie Enjoy!!!! I just loved it. Laughed, cried and even fell off the bed laughing once! 3y
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie falling off the bed is one heck of an endorsement. 🤣😂🤣 3y
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TheBookHippie
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Tagged book had parts in it I fell out hollering 😂

I don‘t typically read books you would laugh at but I do howl at the stupidity of story lines before I throw books 😂🤪 #fridayfeeling

Everybody play

Cuilin I generally don‘t read funny books too. I had to delve deep into my Goodreads to come up mine. Thanks for playing. 👍 3y
GingerAntics I actually laughed at Why We Sleep, because he used the word parsimonious, and I used to have a music theory teacher who LOVED that word. We even turning it into a morning drinking game (coffee/tea/soda) that somehow he magically never caught on to. (edited) 3y
GingerAntics He also said that for night owls, the prefrontal cortex doesn‘t even start functioning until later. He said “The front office isn‘t open.” 🤣😂🤣 3y
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TheBookHippie @GingerAntics 😂😂😂😂 3y
GingerAntics The tagged book has been on my wish list for a while now, and I just went in to the Apple Books store to look at it and BAM it‘s on sale!!! I‘m trying to decide if I read it now, or if I wait until closer to St. Patty‘s Day. 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I read it in March and then read the other two as it‘s a trilogy (Agnes Browne Series) I really enjoyed them. 3y
GingerAntics Looks like there is a prequel now, too. Maybe for this March. 🤣 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics oooo let me know I‘d be up to reread in March ! 3y
GingerAntics I‘m not sure if it‘s meant to be read first or after the original trilogy. The description started out “Before she was a Mammy, before she has Chisellers, and before the made her a Granny, Agnes Browne was Agnes Reddin...” so I‘m thinking it‘s meant to go at the end...??? I‘m not sure. 3y
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I had no idea there was more!!! I‘m kinda excited! 3y
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Deblovestoread
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#20series20days Day 11

I‘ve read the first 3 and just discovered #4 which is a prequel. Set in 1960‘s Dublin the short but sweet books follow the lives of Agnes Brown and her children from the death of her husband through their adulthood. Looking forward to The Young Wan and getting to know Agnes pre-Mammy days.

Andrew65 A good choice. 4y
Nute The book covers make me want to know about this series! 4y
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TheBookHippie
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Pickpick

Happy St Patrick‘s Day 🍀☘️
If you‘ve not read this do it!!
I fell out of bed laughing a couple times and the rest of the story is so good. 📗💚very sweet.

Karisa Sounds like a very good read for this month! 💗 4y
erzascarletbookgasm Stacking! And I love this pic! 4y
Deblovestoread I loved this series of 3! 4y
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mrp27
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#booked2019 #setinirelandirishauthor #mounttbr

⭐️⭐️⭐️ I've had this on my tbr shelf for years so this prompt was an excellent push to finally read it. A quick read about a young widow raising her 7 children after her husband unexpected death. Made me think of it as a humorous Angela's Ashes.

BookNAround So funny, right? 5y
Cinfhen I love the cover❤️ 5y
mrp27 @BookNAround I got quite a few giggles! 5y
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lauralovesbooks1
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Pickpick

Adorable read about a Irish Catholic family growing up in Dublin in the 1960's. Delightful and heartwarming -- it made me laugh out loud at times.

Mdargusch I can‘t resist the cover! 6y
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lauralovesbooks1
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My St. Patrick's day TBR.

GarthRanzz I just love Brendan! I have all of these on my TBR. 6y
lauralovesbooks1 @GarthRanzz These will be my first by him. Looking forward to them. 6y
GarthRanzz I only know him from Mrs. Brown. But these sound really good. I may pull one to the top of my TBR in honour of today. 6y
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TheHeartlandBookFairy
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@goodbyefrancie , here are the four that I read 😊📖📚

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goodbyefrancie
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This one seems to be calling my name.

Suet624 💕💕💕 7y
shawnmooney That photo! 7y
TheHeartlandBookFairy I read this book as a book called pick two or three years ago in March, a perfect book for March! There are two more in the series after this and another one by the same author that are all just as fantastic! I don't think I've ever laughed so hard reading books as when I read these, fantastic stories! 7y
goodbyefrancie @TheHeartlandBookFairy I'll have to look for the others. I found this one at a thrift store. 7y
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Suzze
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I think I bought this when it came out here in the USA in 1999. And it's still sitting on the shelf. I believe there was a television series based on the trilogy this is part of. Seems like a perfect book for today. #marchintoreading #irishauthors #marchmadness #irishstory

BookNAround I loved this book. Heartbreaking and hilarious both. 7y
Suzze @BookNAround I left it out. Now may be the time to read it! 7y
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TheBookHippie
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Pickpick

Happy St Patty's Day

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Bibliotini
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I'm waiting for Tom Jones to take the stage at The Uptown here in Kansas City. In the movie version of The Mammy, "Agnes Browne," Tom Jones plays a prominent role. It's going to be very cool to see this legend. Excitement City!!!

BarbaraTheBibliophage Swoon. He was a huge favorite in our house when I was growing up! 8y
Bibliotini @BarbaraTheBibliophage Ours too. Fond memories of watching his variety show with my swooning mom. It was a fun show. 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Yup me too. How was the show last night? 8y
Bibliotini @barbarathebibliophage Pretty great. Not sure if I'm bummed or relieved he opted out of the jumpsuit option. 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage ROFL! I'm thinking relieved. 😜 8y
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Melkyl
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Mehso-so

This is very funny, at times.

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Bibliotini
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Pickpick

One of my all-time favorite books and one of the few I've reread more than a coupe of times.

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