Mary O’Rourke

Seconds out! Round two! For 50 minutes last year Mary O’Rourke (please don’t tell us she needs any introduction) kept a Kells audience enthralled reading from Letters of My Life, in which Mary wrote a letter to 20 people past and present, close and distant, living and deceased. To her beloved brother Paddy, to the Athlone Fianna Fail Women’s Group, to a young couple embracing on a bridge, to a past professor, to a cousin in America. Every letter is heartfelt, every letter offers gratitude for the difference the recipient made to Mary’s life. But 50 minutes wasn’t enough, so the moment she stepped off the podium we invited her to come back for part two in 2018. She graciously agreed. Who knows, maybe 100 minutes won’t be enough.