With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents' Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inaurguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde. 

Most of these have never been published before and a handful have never been seen by the public. They are letters of congratulations, of resignation, of sympathy. A handwritten note from a president to a queen, a message sent to the moon, a fond farewell from a poet. there are letters of joy and loss, begging letters and threatening ones, sent from palaces, parliments and prisons, from war zones, refugee camps and homeless shelters. Meticulusly researched and hand-picked for this unique book, these corospondances bring to life our presidents, Aras an Uachtarain and all those who have passed through it's doors.