Introduction
These books, about the women in Irish mythology gently expose psychological content through the medium of storytelling, while remaining loyal to the myths themselves. Confusing chronologies ask for surrender to the many contradictions within each woman’s story. Though maybe it is only within a contradiction that our senses and intuitions are put to their best work. The dark, the light and the strength of the feminine is evident on the roads these women walk; mythic roads with no beginning and no end, where the goddess appears in her many guises. Virgin, mother and crone thread connectivity, without linearity like rivers and streams, that forge links all the same.
For the full essay see Irish Myths Retold Blog
TÁIN and SÍDH are also available at the following stockists:
- Winding Stair, Dublin
- Hodges & Figgis, Dublin
- Connelly Books, Dublin
- The Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin
- Kenny’s bookshop, Galway
- Books Upstairs, Dublin
- The Book and Coffee Shop, Kilkenny
- The Kilkenny Book Centre, Kilkenny
- The Waterford Book Centre
- Barker and Jones, Naas Co Kildare
- The Wexford Book Centre
- Charlie Byrnes Bookshop, Galway
- The Clifden Bookshop, Co Galway
- Waterstones Cork
- Tertulia Bookshop Westport, Co Mayo
- The Bookshop Westport, Co Mayo
- Books at One Louisburgh, Co Mayo
- Gallery Books, Hugh lane Gallery, Dublin
- Woulfes Bookshop, Listowel, Co Kerry
- Kerry Writers Museum, Listowel, Co Kerry