My Search for Truth
Judy Maher has lived many lives in one: daughter of a grand Dublin household, wife, mother of five, grandmother of nine, and a woman who came late — but with fierce conviction — to the law. Yet running beneath all of it was a question that would take decades to answer. My Search for Truth follows Judy's journey from the ordered world of Coolbeg on Shrewsbury Road through the upheavals of marriage, motherhood, and a long-awaited return to her legal vocation, and into the painstaking, emotional work of DNA testing and genealogical research that would eventually lead her to family she hadn't known existed. What she found wasn't just names on a chart — it was a sense of belonging that had quietly eluded her for most of her life. Warm, honest, and quietly courageous, this memoir closes with a meditation on identity, legacy, and the future she is building for the children and grandchildren she dedicates it to. A story for anyone who has ever needed to know where they truly come from.

















