In 1966, just two weeks after the IRA blew up Nelson's Pillar in O'Connell Street Dublin, Eddie McGrath is knocked down and killed by the airport bus near the spot where the Pillar used to stand. His death makes his seventeen year old daughter, Nuala, an orphan. She never knew her mother, Gertie, at all, and when she looks into her father's things she finds items of her mother that deeply disturb her. Set in Dublin, Sligo and Donegal, 'Who Was Gertie Ford?' will introduce the reader to the west coast of Ireland, as Nuala searches for Gertie in a world of adventure, heartbreak and tragedy.