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Innkeeper's Fire is published!

Innkeeper's Fire

Hardback:

Vol. One 493 pages
Vol. Two 605 pages

Description:

Innkeeper’s Fire is a keeper; a fascinating piece of literary art. It has been said of the celebrated Russian soprano Anna Netrebko that even if she were to learn many more new parts, the role of Natasha Rostov in War and Peace will remain one of the chief roles in her life.

The same could very well be said of myself, in that even if I were to write many more new books, the role of Rísteárd Mac Grailt in this work will remain one of the chief male character roles in my life.

That’s because this type of calm, wise, bright, joyous, courteous, warm voiced, nuptial hermit and family man; this rural philosopher-poet of Éire who tells mythic stories and engages in homely conversations perfectly fits my imaginative, writing, and poetic possibilities.

There is the quiet man and his lady of the valley of Ballylee, the quiet man and his lady of the lake isle of Innisfree, and now here the quiet man and his lady of the hill country of Deisi Mumhan.

Isabelle Boulay

Chanson diva Isabelle Boulay sings Mieux qu'ici-bas

Video selection at Rivers2c

FORTHCOMING - early March 2008

Innkeeper's Fire (Hardback: Vol. One 493 pages, Vol. Two 605 pages)

Description:

Innkeeper’s Fire is a keeper; a fascinating piece of literary art. It has been said of the celebrated Russian soprano Anna Netrebko that even if she were to learn many more new parts, the role of Natasha Rostov in War and Peace will remain one of the chief roles in her life.

The same could very well be said of myself, in that even if I were to write many more new books, the role of Rísteárd Mac Grailt in this work will remain one of the chief male character roles in my life.

That’s because this type of calm, wise, bright, joyous, courteous, warm voiced, nuptial hermit and family man; this rural philosopher-poet of Éire who tells mythic stories and engages in homely conversations perfectly fits my imaginative, writing, and poetic possibilities.

There is the quiet man and his lady of the valley of Ballylee, the quiet man and his lady of the lake isle of Innisfree, and now here the quiet man and his lady of the hill country of Deisi Mumhan.

Newly Published Book (Hardback: 499 pages)

Title: Hearing in the Write

Description: A purely philosophical-poetic work, Hearing in the Write shows a marvellous fluidity and rapidity of thought.

While it neither advocates nor adheres to any philosophy per se; a philosophy in the sense of being a time-honoured discipline hauling and dragging after itself otiose luggage of correct principles of reasoning, it definitely does concern itself in its own lyrical way with profound questions on what exists, what are some of the essential natures of things, how we live our lives, what ‘knowledges’ are thought to be, and above all it concerns itself with safeguarding the spontaneity of speculation.

This delightfully exhilarating work has healing qualities about it in that through means of its powerfully nebulous thought engagements it encourages the mind back out into the heartland of wondrously uninhibited speculations.

The work presents diversion and digression in thought and expression as essential ingredients for the good of our intellectual health.

Anna Netrebko

Anna sings Song to the Moon

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Newly Published Book (Hardback: 503 pages)

Title: Generations Reaching


Description:

Reflections on a sampling of life’s eternal concerns.

Like all my writings, Generations Reaching is being presented as a time barque for the generations of our future, thence enabling them to know, and to come to appreciate the reflections and aspirations that one of their ancestors had, with respect to a sampling of life’s eternal concerns while happily living simply and plainly with his wife and two children in a 21st century of his era;

Happily living simply and plainly in a beautiful border village that the people of his day called Tallow, on the lovely isle they called Éire, of the fragile planet they called Earth, of the solar system he called Garden, of the spiral galaxy they called Milky Way, of the thirty galaxies or more they called Local Group, of the beyond and beyond which he called Horizon, and of the that which they called Great Universe.

Generations of the future in their readings and reflections on this work will be with the delight of knowing that all those decades, hundreds, and thousands and more of years ago, one of their ancestors was already with bringing them and their time to his mind.

Contemporary readers of today's world are cordially invited as honoured guests on board the exquisite Time Barque of the Eternal Ocean for its precious cargo to bethink for themselves, and to bless before it sets sail from out of the bay of our own day.

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