When Pauline Scanlon was “10 or 11”, she noticed a change in her mother, Eileen. “There was a darkness,” the traditional singer recalls in the beautifully raw and mournful documentary Amhráin do mo Mháthair (TG4, 9.30pm). Eileen was overwhelmed with “memories she had buried deep inside and kept hidden” but which had now resurfaced.
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