It’s been just over a year since my mother, Mary Theresa Ryan (née Keaney), passed away. She was one of a family of five – Catherine [always known as Kathleen], Michael, Anne, and Sean, all pre-deceasing her.1 Born in Marino, Dublin, to Michael and Mary Catherine Keaney, her family ran a fruit shop in Talbot Street (Keaney’s) from the early 1920s to the early 1980s. Originally managed by her aunt Susan McHugh, my grandparents took over the shop in 1932, the year of the Eucharistic Congress.