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Dear Sebastian

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Dear Sebastian is a 2009 book published by Hodder Headline Ireland. The book's content is a collection of letters from notable people in Irish society to a young boy who lost his father to cancer.

The book's editor was Jordan Ferguson from Glounthaune, County Cork. According to the book, in March 2008, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and told he had only months to live. He had one 9-year-old son, Sebastian. Ferguson then decided to gather together letters from "successful" Irish people. This project ended up becoming the book Dear Sebastian. Ferguson died before completing the book, but he asked his mother, Christine Horgan, to finish the project.

The letters which make up the book came from well-known Irish names, including:

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