Mai Medlar & her brother Paddy Today is the hundreth anniversary of the birth of my godmother, Mai Medlar, on Usher's Island in the city of Dublin. Mai was my mother's first cousin.
Other people may remember the day for other reasons and rightly so. But for me it is Mai's day. She always revelled in telling people that she was born on Bloody Sunday. So today she takes pride of place.
Sadly she died on 21 January 2011, on which day I honoured her in a blog post.
I gave the eulogy at her funeral and was proud to do so.
But there's more to Bloody Sunday and the Medlar family. Mai's uncle Larry was at Croke Park on the day and we are fortunate to have his own story in an interview he did with his son in law David on his 90th birthday in 1978.
As well as the tragedy that afternoon, Larry's story also contains a "funny incident", probably the only funny story to come out of the massacre.
Larry has a feast of other stories from the same interview which you might like to listen to here. Enjoy.
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