One of 11 children, Séamas O’Reilly was just five years old when his mother died. In an extract from his touching new memoir, he recalls with childlike clarity the awful day of her wake One thing they ...

Leaving Cert season is in full swing, and so Irish mammys across the country are pulling out their best one-liners to comfort ...

For millions of Gone With the Wind fans, Mammy will always be Oscar-winning actress Hattie McDaniel, tsk-tsking her spoiled charge, Miss Scarlett, and harrumphing because Mammy has more common sense ...

The 1930 movie musical “Mammy” is an important -- if almost shockingly racially insensitive -- piece in the canon of the legendary Al Jolson’s career. “Mammy” stars “The World’s Greatest Entertainer” ...

We’re in the last reels of a claustrophobically black-and-white world. The film: “Alice Adams,” the director George Stevens’s 1935 adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel. Determined to marry up, Alice ...

It's Mother's Day in Ireland, on Sunday, March 19. These Irish Mammy sayings will either have you chuckling or ducking for cover. Is there anything quite like the sayings that come from your typical ...

Mammy, the slave devoted to her mistress Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, is to be given her own back story by the author Donald McCaig, in what its publisher said was "a necessary correction" ...

My mammy has been asleep for five days now. She mustn’t be very comfy lying on the bathroom floor. I really hope she wakes up soon, I miss her. Plus, I’m nearly out of cheerios and I’m getting kinda ...

How do you build a backstory for, much less give a name to, one of the greatest supporting characters in American literature? For Donald McCaig, it started while writing a church skit about biblical ...