Rory O'Neill AKA Panti

So she waited out the war in England and then moved them back to Dublin.

And she was fiercely independent.

She worked at Guinness's and...

She made my mother, who was the smart woman, you know, leave school early and get a job, too, so that she could send one off to be a priest, one of the boys to be a priest.

The other boy was going to go to university, you know, and so she needed my mother to be working as well to help pay for that.

And then Cuey was the youngest, the glamorous, the gorgeous one with a husky, sexy voice.

And she was going to be, you know, an actress, you know, do the whole acting on radio thing.

Aer Lingus, whatever, all the glamorous stuff at the time.

And she ended up marrying an ex-American Navy guy lawyer who was like 25 years older than her, which is already glamorous, right?

And then, you know, lived in Washington, D.C.

for all of our lives.

And she would come home, you know, once every couple of years or something.

And we were like in Ballinrow County, Mayo in the 1970s.

Like, you know, and even Dublin felt like, you know, days away.

And she'd have like pantsuits and menthol cigarettes and, you know, big chunky jewellery.

And she looked like one of Charlie's Angels as far as I was concerned.

And she had like the smoker's drawl, you know, husky voice.

And she'd like bring us home these things.

that we thought were so exotic she brought us all home Washington Redskins yellow hoodies and we'd never even seen a hoodie before never heard of a hoodie before we were like oh my god a jumper with a hood on it you know and wore them every single day

And they're like such a big memory.