My thoughts have been eastward all day as the transnational One Book One Community Reading Project is officially launched in Derry. Readers in Northern Ireland, Co. Donegal and New England will be reading “Exile”, the first book in my historical-fiction series “The Chronicles of Iona”, at the same time. Donegal County Council and Libraries Northern Ireland set…
Tag: Early Christian Ireland
Book 2, The Chronicles of Iona: Prophet, is here!
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…
Visit the Irish High Crosses (without visiting the Irish High Crosses)
I’ve just run across a link to a exhibition currently underway at the Collin Barracks, Dublin, site of the National Museum of Ireland–an exhibition of antiquarian plaster-of-paris casts of six of Ireland’s extraordinary High Crosses. (www.museum.ie/en/exhibition/irish-high-crosses.aspx) These casts were made 1896-1908 for display in international fairs and museum collections–to export, in this case Ireland’s, heritage in…
“In course of time Britain received a third race …” or The Peoples of the North
Loch Crinan, gateway to Dunadd, the caput regionis of the Scots of Dál Riata There were four different peoples in Scotland in the early Middle Ages, speaking their own languages, with their distinctive material cultures, myths of origins, religions and ideologies. All have left significant legacies in the history and landscape of Scotland. The…
Where in the world is Dál Riata?
Paula de Fougerolles 2009 Looking across Loch Crinan at Duntrune Castle from the Loch Crinan Hotel The early medieval kingdom of Dál Riata (or Dalriada, as it is now commonly known) comprises much of the modern Scottish region of Argyll and Bute. The original heartland of the kingdom of Scotland, this is the part…
Why this blog?
What’s a girl to do when she discovers that her heart lies in the Dark Ages? She hunts it down in whatever form it persists. Or, she re-creates her own version of it. Fact. And Fiction. Together. That’s what I’ve done in my forthcoming series of fictionalized history, set in sixth-century Scotland, called “The Chronicles…
Paula de Fougerolles' 'The Chronicles of Iona' 