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Published: Irish Times, November 23 2011

“There are about a hundred of them and they keep wobbling around on the chopping board…”

“Explain it to me like I’m six years old” is Denzel Washington’s mantra in the film Philadelphia. It could just as easily serve as my motto in the kitchen. On a good day, I’m capable of boiling a potato. But that’s about as Jamie Oliver as it gets around here. Ciara O’Hagen claims her healthy dinner recipes are idiot-proof. Lady, we’re about to put that to the test. Read the rest of this entry »

Your Ma: A Critical Perspective

There has been a tendency in recent times to recalibrate the matriarch by endowing her with glamour, sophistication or sex appeal. Unapologetically bucking this trend, however, is your Ma: a gormless, rotund but ultimately lovable woman, who makes a persuasive case that the best path forward for the Irish Mammy lies not in elegance or refinement, but in understatement and verisimilitude. Read the rest of this entry »

Your Ma: A Critical Perspective

There has been a tendency in recent times to recalibrate the matriarch by endowing her with glamour, sophistication or sex appeal. Unapologetically bucking this trend, however, is your Ma: a gormless, rotund but ultimately lovable woman, who makes a persuasive case that the best path forward for the Irish Mammy lies not in elegance or refinement, but in understatement and verisimilitude. Read the rest of this entry »

YOUR MA: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

There has been a tendency in recent times to reinvent the matriarch by endowing her with glamour, sophistication or sex appeal. Unapologetically bucking that trend, however, is your Ma: a gormless, rotund but ultimately lovable woman, who makes a persuasive case that the best path forward for the Mammy lies not in elegance or refinement, but in understatement and verisimilitude. Read the rest of this entry »

YOUR MA: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

There has been a tendency in recent times to reinvent the matriarch by endowing her with glamour, sophistication or sex appeal. Unapologetically bucking that trend, however, is your Ma: a gormless, rotund but ultimately lovable woman, who makes a persuasive case that the best path forward for the Mammy lies not in elegance or refinement, but in understatement and verisimilitude. Read the rest of this entry »