‘Irish Times’ journalist Róisín Ingle launches ‘The Daughterhood’

Irish Times journalist Róisín Ingle and communications consultant Natasha Fennell have launched their new book on mother-daughter relationships.

The book was launched this evening in the pillar room of the Rotunda Hospital by television presenter Miriam O'Callaghan.

The book is a collaboration between Ms Ingle and Ms Fennell. It was motivated by a time when Ms Fennell’s mother was hospitalised with lupus, which made Ms Fennell reflect on her relationship with her mother.

Ms Ingle, who writes regularly about her own mother, used her Saturday column to ask women to write to her about their relationships with their mothers.

To her surprise, there were at least 100 responses. “It was like opening a can of daughterly worms,” she said.

Arising out of that call, nine women volunteered to meet up and discuss their relationships with their mothers. Six meetings were then held over six months.

The results of those meetings provide the basis of the book, entitled The Daughterhood, which probes “the good, the bad and the guilty of mother-daughter relationships”.

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