abstract:Mary Travers was a teacher who was shot dead on 8 April 1984 by Provisional IRA gunmen who were trying to kill her father Tom Travers, a magistrate. Mary Travers was 22 at the time and her family were Catholic.
"I am deadened and heartsick beyond words to consider a life without MaryTravers and honoured beyond my wildest dreams to have shared her spirit and her career, " he said.
L. Travers, the author of Mary Poppins, who declared early on that she had no real interest in seeing her popular children's book adapted to the screen.