A mother's life, chronicled in photographs in priceless physical form... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Tribute To A Mother, by Enda Wyley above.
Photo album of a life that flicks open.
Mother, aged 12, standing on a large kitchen colander painted white in a school hall. The nuns have put you there. Long curls rolling down to your shoulders. Your hands pressed in prayer, a halo of stars over your head.
Feast of the Assumption and you've been chosen to ascend to heaven with your angelic face...
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.