We Made It, Kid

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Jackie McCarthy O'Brien has led a truly remarkable life, from being born in 1961 to an Irish mother and Jamaican father (whom she never met) in Birmingham to growing up in Limerick . She was put in an industrial school as a baby by a priest for being an "illegitimate" black child and not recovered by her mother until she was five.As a teen she excelled at sport and played for Ireland in soccer, but when she was sexually harrassed by a coach she changed to Irish rugby team. She got married at 21 before accepting her sexual feelings for women, and leaving the marriage with her three young children.Always a hilarious raconteur, this memoir tells her extraordinary story up until becoming a TikTok star and LGBTQ+ icon in her sixties. Show more