In Brigit’s Woven World and other poems of Ireland, the reader is introduced to saints, spirits, wise women, hags, enchanting places, and the Irish language itself. As a scholar and as a poet, I have long been inspired and fascinated by the Irish imagination and its many reflections in folklore, mythology, music, and storytelling. These poems flow out of my own lived experience of that deep and shining well.
Brigit’s Woven World
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from the Preface
In Irish, a student is a mac léinn, literally, “a son of learning.” For more than twenty years now, I have been an iníon léinn, “a daughter of learning,” studying Irish language, literature, and folklore both in the scholarly world of books and research and in the earthy world of Irish towns and cities – mainly through friendship, conversation, and lived experience.
It feels fitting to me that Irish conceives of learning as an act that makes you a son or daughter, part of a family. Long study requires a certain familial discipline, but from the very start, I’ve found that it also rewards devotion with inclusion, and even with love.
Yes, even here in far off America, this iníon léinn can feel a family tie not only to friends living in Ireland today, but also to an early Irish saint, to medieval storytellers, to pagan goddesses, to the speakers and word-artists of an Ghaeilge, and certainly to the rivers, towns, coast, and heart-opening green of Ireland herself.
Whatever your own background, I hope these poems will remind you of your own part in this vibrant, rambling family. For truly, at the end of the day, those Irish qualities – vitality, merriment, wit, and beauty – are family traits that belong to everyone. The door stands open for you. Welcome home.
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