Awards

• Winner of Irish Book Awards: RTE Radio 1's The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award 2012.
• Winner of RTE Radio 1's The John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award 2012.
• Winner of The John Murray Show Listener's Choice Award 2012 (Ireland)

Overview

Although they have become more frequent in recent years, Irish political memoirs are still relatively rare.  Even rarer still are political memoirs that still are frank, newsworthy and fun, like this one from Mary O’Rourke. She writes of personal and political events; of her family background and her early involvement in politics: of the many senior political figures to whom she was close, especially Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern; of her two beloved Brians, her brother and nephew, both of whom died before their time; of her successes and disappointments.  She does all this with honesty, energy and a complete absence of self-pity or self-justification. Mary O’Rourke has been one of the most successful and influential women in Irish public life in a generation.  She has stories to tell that will surprise and amuse, as well as recalling moments of personal and political sadness.  The book is like the woman herself: open, warm and shrewd.

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'It's a fascinating story...a great read' -- John Spain Irish Independent This memoir is a fairly honest self-portrait of the Mary O'Rourke whom we have all come to love and hate. The Mary we have all seen over the years is the Mary we get in this book: emotional and exasperating; schoolmarmish and quite contrary; imbued with the Fianna Fail gene and very party-political. -- Geraldine Kennedy The Irish Times

'It's a fascinating story...a great read' -- John Spain Irish Independent

'It's a fascinating story...a great read ' John Spain, Irish Independent

Author Information

Mary O’Rourke is a former Deputy Leader of her party, who has held a number of senior Cabinet positions. She has also been Leader of the Seanad and is a frequent guest on radio and television. 

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