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 ...
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Fox Television was hailed this year for developing “Empire,” about the power struggle of an African American family fighting over control of a massive music empire. With its racially mixed cast of ...