Dear Mum... Writers of all ages pay tribute for Mother’s Day

The mother’s role is not created in the act of bearing a child, rather it’s in the nurture and raising of that child.

In a week when Seamus Heaney’s poem was chosen as the favourite Irish poem of the last 100 years, it’s a nice piece of synchronicity that it’s subject matter, the love of a child for it’s mother, chimes with Mother’s Day this weekend.

The role in our lives of the Irish Mammy has been a rich harvest for comedians, but the jocularity only serves to underline the fundamental, structural role of the mother to a child’s sense of self and sense of well-being.