When I ask my father if he celebrated Father’s Day with his own dad, he tells me: “Oh, it’s very much a recent invention.” I pause. “At least I don’t remember it,” he continues, “but maybe that’s because we didn’t practice it in our house”. Where Father’s Day is concerned, however, he’s basically correct. For Father’s Day, it would seem rude to deny him this honour. He died in 1976, four years after the genesis of Father’s Day in this part of the world, and nine years before I was born.

Source: Irish Examiner June 16, 2024 22:35 UTC