Status
Available
Call number
Genres
Collections
Publication
Sphere (1994), 288 pages
Description
What is it about Ireland's past that so haunts the imagination? More than one answer can be found in Michael Scott's powerful new collection of twenty-nine tales. To start with, in a newly Christianised Ireland, monks do battle with a devilish monster that has killed a river. All the water in this collection, from rivers to lakes, conceal dangers that men and women would best avoid. Ready to tempt Ireland's new conquerors - humankind - supernatural forces hide beneath waves, in bogs, in the very land, waiting. With his usual inventiveness, Michael Scott juxtaposes the old and the new, the ancient and modern, showing that in everyday situations, the curses of Ireland's mythic past lie imp-like, threatening destruction.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
280 p.; 4.9 inches
ISBN
0751501549 / 9780751501544
Local notes
A collection of 29 Irish tales. To start with, in a newly Christianised Ireland, monks do battle with a devilish monster that has killed a river. (All the waters – rivers and loughs – in this collection conceal dangers that men and women would best avoid.) The pagan spirits of the legendary Tuatha De Danann, peoples of ancient Erin, take on the forms of mermaids and knights on chargers, and anyone with a sense of adventure, or who is just curious, is potential prey.