Sir, – While sorting through belongings at the weekend, my mum found old letters that her own mum had once written to her when she first moved to Dublin 50 years ago.
They were full of general chat, questions about when she would next be home to visit, all things so ordinary at the time yet now so precious. Her mum, my granny, has since passed.
Nobody can or would deny that telephones are a superb invention but there is something sad about letter writing becoming a lost art. They give you something physical to hold, to read back over in years to come, and they require more love and effort than a quick text or call.
I’d love to see a campaign to revive them before the memory becomes too far removed from current and future generations. After two years of living through a pandemic, now seems a more important time than any to drive home the importance of human connection. – Yours, etc,
FIONA DALY,
Clontarf,
Dublin 3.