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The Irish Jaunting-Car

An excerpt from Chapter 1 of “O’Shaughnessey: The Faerie Circle,” edited.

This was the final indignity. Margaret McNeill Mahoney was, after all, firmly planted in the twentieth century. This was 1985 and there were televisions, videotapes, electronic games, radio and tape-players, cars, trains, and buses, yet here she was being bounced along in a [...]

Is This the Face of Christ?

I have prevailed upon my good friend and persona Brother Jeremiah of the Divine Order of the Buile Shuibhne* to write the occasional letter on spiritual subjects. I have never seen him so moved and in a way that is uncharacteristic of the gentle monastic. Yet, I have promised not to edit him and [...]

“I’m a Storyteller Not a Journalist!”

Excerpt from “O’Shaughnessey: the Faerie Circle,” coming soon.

Bobby Mahoney is in Ireland with his daughter to gather folk tales to work into a book. The previous night, Moira McCarthy the sheneche, or storyteller, had graced them with the story of young Fionna Donelley who had become “The Watcher on the Rock Above the Sea” [...]

What About Marriage Really Needs Defending?

I may be wrong, God knows I have been in the past and am likely to be in the future more often than not, but it seems to me that in all the arguments about gay rights and the limitations of those rights both advocates and detractors are largely dancing around the central principle without [...]