Celtic princess

Celtic Princess

From Mark Fisher : We’ve seen how the ancient Celts gave women certain inheritance and property rights, how some early Celtic women led...

"THE NAMES UPON THE HARP", written by Marie Heaney and illustrated by P. J. Lynch I had planned to write a post about this book while it was still March, so that I could include it in my "All Things Celtic" theme. However, I only received the book today. I'm going to write about it anyway, so just pretend it's still March (we have plenty of snow piles to make it seem so). I learned about the book while I was writing my previous post about Niamh and Oisin. I discovered it only after I had…

Boudicca..

On a cloudy afternoon in March my son and I stood at the top of the tallest tower of Cydweli Castle in Kidwelly, Wales. Sleety rain dispersed over us, cold droplets like tiny needles driven into ou…