Category: Book II: Prophet

Join me for an Irish History and Genealogy Seminar on 3/23/13 in Boston, hosted by NEHGS and TIARA

March 14, 2013

There’s a fantastic event coming up in Boston next weekend—an Irish History and Genealogy seminar hosted by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) and The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA).   I’ll be talking about the history and archaeology of medieval Ireland and Scotland that inspired my series, The Chronicles of Iona.   Marie Daly, founder … More Join me for an Irish History and Genealogy Seminar on 3/23/13 in Boston, hosted by NEHGS and TIARA

Book 2, The Chronicles of Iona: Prophet, is here!

February 5, 2013

   The second book in my historical-fiction series The Chronicles of Iona, called Prophet, is now out! The story picks up where the first book, Exile, left off, beginning in the year 567 A.D.  Four years after journeying with Scottish warrior Aedan mac Gabran into the land of the wild Picts, Irish abbot-prince Columba is forced back there … More Book 2, The Chronicles of Iona: Prophet, is here!

Here’s the cover for Book 2 in “The Chronicles of Iona”, “Prophet”

December 4, 2012

Here’s the cover of Book 2 in the series “The Chronicles of Iona”, called “Prophet”.   Yes: there’s been a name change.  Book 2 was originally entitled “Peregrinatio” which in Latin means a pilgrimage, a spiritual wandering, in this case to refer both to Columba in his exile on the island of Iona, and to Aedan, stuck in … More Here’s the cover for Book 2 in “The Chronicles of Iona”, “Prophet”

Book II is done too …

September 28, 2011

It’s been a long hiatus, but a productive one, and I’m back with the news that Book II in my series is done too.   It’s called The Chronicles of Iona: Peregrinatio.  (That’s Latin for a “peregrination”, literally a wandering, but in this case, that is the early monastic case, a pilgrimage.   In Irish Latin usage, … More Book II is done too …