“..after the gossip and the jokes and the complaints about the English, my Liam would cough, clean his glasses and sit in his chair, that wicker chair beside the hearth, and he’d begin. ‘In a time before time was …’ he’d say, and we were there. Wherever his voice took us we would [...]
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“Laureen had begun to notice something in her daughter that disturbed her. She seemed to have forgotten how to play. Headmistress Evangeline Drysdale was first to notice. ‘It isn’t easy being a Golden Child’ she’d said to Laureen, ‘When you are as smart as Margaret is, accomplishments are taken for granted that would be praised in other girls. Much is expected of her. She is afraid of being wrong, takes getting less that an ‘A’ on her assignments personally and that makes her less able to take chances. She needs to take it all less seriously. She needs to play.” The Sight is a metaphor for any number of things; among them are things like “hopes, dreams, and the childlike ecstasy of discovering the world as if for the first time, of finding out who we are and what we were put on this planet to do. Most of us rather stumble into the [...] In spite of being warned not to, Bobby Mahoney has stepped into a faerie circle and been whisked away to Finvarra’s court for his presumption, leaving Margaret, his twelve year old skeptic of a daughter, behind. The storyteller and Guardian of the Invisible World, Moira McCarthy must try to convince the girl of what [...] On a sheer cliff above the ancient port of Sligo, there rests a singular rock formation that resembles a seated woman wrapped in a shawl. It is known as the Cailleach, or old woman, but the locals call it the Watcher on the Rock Above the Sea. Many the story is [...] In The Faerie Circle, young Margaret Mahoney awakens one morning to find that the Clurichaun Fitzgibbon, whom she dreamed about, has apparently made good his threat and knotted her curly red hair during the night. Since she doesn’t believe in leprechauns, clurichauns and the like, she attributes the knots to a restless night, Ireland’s [...] |
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