Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

If you noticed me laughing out loud on my walk home in the last week or so, I was probably listening to this new memoir, which, despite being about the death of O'Reilly's mother when he was five, against the backdrop of the violent Troubles in their Northern Irish city of Derry, also manages to be about dinosaurs, his goofy and loving father, the largest and best-documented home-taped VHS archive in the known universe, and growing up the ninth of eleven children in an Ireland where families didn't get that large any more. Only after finishing did I realize that O'Reilly first found fame with his viral Twitter thread about meeting the President of Ireland while on ketamine, which, in its nerdy embrace of life's absurd embarrassments, turned out to be an excellent preview of how warm, charming, and, yes, laugh-out-loud funny his first book would become. —Tom (download the audiobook from our partners at Libro.fm)