Séamas O'Reilly: Managing a family Christmas... with ten siblings!

"Do you remember all their names? How did you all get around? Your parents mustn’t have had many hobbies, and always, eventually, Jesus, what were Christmases like in your house?"

Séamas O'Reilly. Picture: Orfhlaith Whelan

When I was a child, my entire family used to return to our family home for Christmas. We can’t anymore, of course. There are simply too many of us. 

If you include partners and children — and, sentimental as we are, we do tend to consider those people family — my already large clan of 11 kids and my dad, has now ballooned to 38 people.