A Guide to the Silence of the Irish Other World aims to add the too often invisible and absent Irish narrative in many standard history books and all glossy guide books.
This book seeks to include an ever invisible Irish terminology and a fullest Irish gaze to depict Ireland from an Irish perspective, rather than the long set genre and the glossy sanitized format which conforms to a dominant gaze that has been the set in stone narrative usually emanating and deriving from a British pre-set notion and definition on the acceptable, objective, impartial and universal Irish story.
Such fixed set in stone accounts present only a stone dead narrative on Irish history and worse, the Irish People. This story is usually exclusively his story which excludes her story and for many in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora world-wide, it also excludes our story, our pysche and our Irish living memory. A Guide to the Silence of the Irish Other World is a Irish narrative from the soul of Ireland that while silent is very much alive.
The book is written in such an Irish spirit to provide an Irish voice to a voiceless Irish, a silent Irish from ancient times to the present moment. The title of the book alludes to this silence but it also strives to give a living presence to the Irish Other Worlds beyond this earthly world and furthermore bring the visitor and reader into the serenity of the soul-filled, silent hush, awe and wonder that the Irish landscape and its sacred places exude in abundance.
The book also contains more than 50 photographs in the firmest belief that a picture paints a thousand words. This is to better illustrate the silence of the Irish other world and bring it to your own fireside and to enhance any planned visit to Ireland. However, the book is deliberately and purposefully designed to be a journey in itself. A journey that is an all encompassing Irish experience that delivers a meaningful experience of Ireland and Irish ways. The book seeks primarily to bring Ireland to the hearth and home of the reader wherever that home might be world wide and secondly to bring the reader to Ireland. I believe the book decodes a more authentic Ireland that will enrich, awaken and clearly demonstrate Ireland's silent story and loudest wonder for locals and visitors alike.
Go raibh mile maith agaibh - A thousand thanks
This book seeks to include an ever invisible Irish terminology and a fullest Irish gaze to depict Ireland from an Irish perspective, rather than the long set genre and the glossy sanitized format which conforms to a dominant gaze that has been the set in stone narrative usually emanating and deriving from a British pre-set notion and definition on the acceptable, objective, impartial and universal Irish story.
Such fixed set in stone accounts present only a stone dead narrative on Irish history and worse, the Irish People. This story is usually exclusively his story which excludes her story and for many in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora world-wide, it also excludes our story, our pysche and our Irish living memory. A Guide to the Silence of the Irish Other World is a Irish narrative from the soul of Ireland that while silent is very much alive.
The book is written in such an Irish spirit to provide an Irish voice to a voiceless Irish, a silent Irish from ancient times to the present moment. The title of the book alludes to this silence but it also strives to give a living presence to the Irish Other Worlds beyond this earthly world and furthermore bring the visitor and reader into the serenity of the soul-filled, silent hush, awe and wonder that the Irish landscape and its sacred places exude in abundance.
The book also contains more than 50 photographs in the firmest belief that a picture paints a thousand words. This is to better illustrate the silence of the Irish other world and bring it to your own fireside and to enhance any planned visit to Ireland. However, the book is deliberately and purposefully designed to be a journey in itself. A journey that is an all encompassing Irish experience that delivers a meaningful experience of Ireland and Irish ways. The book seeks primarily to bring Ireland to the hearth and home of the reader wherever that home might be world wide and secondly to bring the reader to Ireland. I believe the book decodes a more authentic Ireland that will enrich, awaken and clearly demonstrate Ireland's silent story and loudest wonder for locals and visitors alike.
Go raibh mile maith agaibh - A thousand thanks
