Anne Tiernan: 'Me, Tommy and our siblings find a lot of humour in talking about childhood, even talking about mum. Something like that brings you together' : vimarsana.com
It was an innocent question, posed by her middle child, that gave Anne Tiernan pause for thought. “He said, ‘Mummy, why didn’t you grow up to be anything?’” Tiernan says, laughing at the memory. “I was reaching a stage where if I wiped the bloody kitchen bench down one more time, I would lose my mind. I had to do something with my brain. It was now or never.”