I think he was raging that he didn’t go before her. He was not the same after she died, he definitely died of a broken heart.īig Tom's family - Thomas, Aisling, Siobhan and Dermot (Image: Kieran Harnett)ĭid your father have bad health at the time?Īisling: He did have ill health and if anything we thought he would die ahead of her. He didn’t believe itĪisling : He didn’t believe it until the very end, and I remember he went into the room to her and said ‘ah Rose, I think you are in trouble’. Siobhan: He told me that the doctor said my mother was dying and he was asking ‘what is wrong with that doctor?’ I told him to pass no remarks, as it was too hard to say it to him. The doctor had been out at the house and she said Mammy had only three days to live but our father didn’t believe it. How was your father when he realised your mother was sick?ĭermot: He kept saying the doctor was crazy. Read more: Country singer Barry Kirwan chats about dream wedding to fiance Michelle Carville Then all of a sudden it took arms and legs. Your mother Rose passed away in January 2018 and your dad Big Tom just eleven weeks later, were you all in shock at how sudden it happened?Īisling : My mother has an underlying health condition but it never raised its head, at times she was tired and she was seeing a consultant up in Dublin for twenty years but every time she went up he was happy with her. RSVP Country sat down with Big Tom’s children Thomas, Aisling, Siobhan and Dermot as they fondly reminisced about their childhoods and parents in a home full of music and love. The Elvis Presley of country music, whose down-to-earth nature saw him farming the land and playing football for his parish while producing hit records and selling out venues, including an 80,000 audience in London’s Roundwood park. There’s no mistaking this is Big Tom country. The pride of Monaghan - Big Tom McBride passed away in April 2018 aged 81 just eleven weeks after his devoted wife Rose, but as you drive through Castleblayney into his homeplace of Oram his presence is overwhelming.

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