In Listen to the Land Speak, he offers a fractal version of Ireland, where myth overlaps with history, the fantastical with the practical, the superstitious with the scientific. The solemnity of the mystic threefold repetition expresses the certainty of the Divine decree (comp. It forces you to pause at the next holy well and take a knee at the crux of the next hill to take in the landscape around you.

Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What

So in our Lord's most solemn utterances we have the twice-repeated "Simon, Simon" ( Luke 22:31), and the recurring "Verily, verily" of St.

The saint was a descendant of Rudraige mac Sithrigi, a high king of Ireland who is associated with the great supernatural wave Tonn Rudraige and who is said to be buried on the shore beside it. His work in this field has garnered him acclaim for feeding the inferno that burns behind the Irish person’s want for connection to their past. A story told as if in conversation, that left me with the knowledge that I have an authority, sovereignty and power derived from the land and my ancestors that only needs to be re-acknowledged to be accessed. His new book, Listen to the Land Speak, will be published on October 6 th and is a beauty that we all should read to understand our Irish landscape and its connection to our vast heritage of myths, legends, folklore, and fairytales.

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Despite making his views abundantly clear in this respect, Magan never quite explains his own position on Ireland's old Pagan religion. Even when reading this book I was lucky enough to be able to discuss it with people who know a lot more than me which has helped me to absorb the text more. The potential implications of these and other findings are enormous and there was a much more interesting book which could have (and still should be) written about these things, offering us a new understanding of our past and a new significance to our present. Manchán[’s] … got some theories about the roots of the Irish language that are going to blow your head off … an incredible storyteller. Here, we are presented with how loss typifies our land; the loss of bogland, of great oaks and other trees and forests, of fairy forts, neolithic sites, place names, and ancient roads, but most of all, the loss of wisdom and the kind of knowledge that, were it known and appreciated more widely, could inform a deeper connection from which a new spring could rise.It inspired a picture book for children, Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature, with illustrator Steve Doogan, which was also a bestseller.