My Mother Hoped for the Best by Margaret Galvin

Margaret Galvin is a poetand essayist living in Wexford, Ireland. She has published six collections of poetry. Her next collection, Our House Delirious, a collection of poetry and prose, is to be published in May 2023 by Revival Press, Limerick. Her work is frequently broadcast on theradioprogramme, Sunday Miscellany. She holds an MA in Child, Youth and Family studies and frequently facilitates writing workshops to support participants towards self-understanding. Much of her writing addresses the contrast between the Ireland she grew up in, in the 60's and 70's and the Ireland inhabited today.She does so in a way that is described as : 'gritty and unsentimental.' (Dr. FrancisDevlin-Glass, university of Melbourne.)