Letters of My Life

the long version

To her beloved late husband, Enda...to the Athlone Fianna Fail Women's Group...to a future female politician...to a young couple embracing on a bridge...to a past professor...to a niece in America... On the eve of her 80th birthday, Mary O'Rourke has sat down to write a letter to twenty people past and present, close and distant, living and deceased. Every letter is heartfelt; every letter offers gratitude for the difference the recipient made to Mary's life. At once universal and deeply personal, Letters of My Life offers an illuminating insight into one of Ireland's best-loved figures.