Dear Dad: Aoibhín Garrihy, Sharon Shannon and more write letters to their fathers

Ahead of Father’s Day on June 19, four household names pay homage to the men that shaped them
Dear Dad: Aoibhín Garrihy, Sharon Shannon and more write letters to their fathers

Nuala O'Connor and her father Hugh O'Connor

Nuala O’Connor

Dear Da, I hope that in your elsewhere there are fields to roam, another Liffey Valley in the sky, with a big oak and yew at its heart, and your beloved river running through it. I hope the riverbank is soft enough to dig up, and that the mud holds bottles, ancient coins, and clay pipes galore — your kind of treasure.

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