Darina Allen: Mother's Day favourites from Ballymaloe

If ever a celebration was warranted, it’s Mother’s Day. Anna Jarvis from Virginia in the US originally initiated the special day to honour her own mother who lost nine of her 13 children before they reached adulthood.

Later, she was deeply saddened and totally disenchanted that the day she intended to devote to mothers became a means of ‘profiteering’ and a ‘Hallmark holidayDarinaAllen220320’, after the company who first released Mother’s Day cards in 1920.