Limerick Folk Tales The History Press, 2016 ISBN 978-1-84588-228-0 Limerick - a city of kings and common people, where a poor broom-seller once became mayor. A city that gave its name to a short funny poem. A city, and a county, full of stories.
In Limerick Folk Tales you will find wise women healers, crafty tailors, shapers of the land, women who carry mountains in their aprons…. Read about Sinann who was carried away by the flowing waters of the River Shannon; bright and beautiful goddess Áine who knits the earth's green mantle below Lough Gur; and poet-magician, Gearóid Iarla, on his horse with the silver shoes. Storyteller Ruth Marshall re-tells tales of mystery, music and magic from the rich land of County Limerick. Available on www.amazon.co.uk, thebookdepository.com, Easons and other bookshops or from the author. Price €12.99 (plus p+p) Irish distribution by Gill |
Clare Folk Tales The History Press, 2013 ISBN 978-1-84588-761-2 Do you know what lurks beneath the waters of Cullane Lake? Or why you should never, ever, disturb a Clare woman at her knitting? In Clare Folk Tales, you will find the answers to these and many more questions. Meet Lon Mac Liofa, three-handed, one-legged smith of the Tuatha De Danaan; Biddy Early, Clare’s famous wise woman and healer; St Senan, banisher of the Catach, a ferocious sea serpent that lived in the Shannon waters around Scattery Island. Heroes such as Finn MacCool and Brian Boru feature, along with wild women Maire Ruad and Mong Finn, and of course the fairies, in this collection of gentle stories celebrating the landscape, people and creatures of County Clare. Available from bookshops, from The History Press, on www.amazon.co.uk, in bookshops or from the author. Price €12.99 (plus p+p) Click to hear Ruth telling why you should never disturb a woman at her knitting Read article "Once Upon a Time... A Journey with Story in Co Clare" in Network Ireland Holistic Magazine, July 2013: |
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Celebrating Irish Festivals Hawthorn Press, 2003. ISBN 978-1903458235
A hands-on guide to marking the year's turning by celebrating Irish traditional seasonal festivals. Filled with stories, folklore, crafts, recipes, songs and games to help you and your family, school or community find new and appropriate ways to celebrate today. Includes the Celtic festivals of Imbolc (Brigit's Day); Bealtaine (May Day); Lughnasadh (Lammas/beginning of harvest); Samhain (Hallowe'en), as well as Christian festivals of Easter, Christmas.
Although currently out of print, it may be available through your local library and can still be found on www.amazon.co.uk
AND - I am talking with the publisher about a re-print ........ so watch this space!
A hands-on guide to marking the year's turning by celebrating Irish traditional seasonal festivals. Filled with stories, folklore, crafts, recipes, songs and games to help you and your family, school or community find new and appropriate ways to celebrate today. Includes the Celtic festivals of Imbolc (Brigit's Day); Bealtaine (May Day); Lughnasadh (Lammas/beginning of harvest); Samhain (Hallowe'en), as well as Christian festivals of Easter, Christmas.
Although currently out of print, it may be available through your local library and can still be found on www.amazon.co.uk
AND - I am talking with the publisher about a re-print ........ so watch this space!
Poetry
Poetry published in journals and anthologies in UK and Ireland, including NorthWords, Women's Work IV, Grian, The Stony Thursday Book 2015, Kindred Spirit, The Three-Legged Stool, Network Ireland, Into the Further Reaches, Electric Acorn. Broadcast on local and national radio. Runner-up in Dublin Writers' Festival Poetry Slam 2001.
Ruth received empowerment as a Truth-speaker / Bard / Poetry Medicine Carrier in the Poetry Depths Mystery School with Kim Rosen in August 2015.
Poetry published in journals and anthologies in UK and Ireland, including NorthWords, Women's Work IV, Grian, The Stony Thursday Book 2015, Kindred Spirit, The Three-Legged Stool, Network Ireland, Into the Further Reaches, Electric Acorn. Broadcast on local and national radio. Runner-up in Dublin Writers' Festival Poetry Slam 2001.
Ruth received empowerment as a Truth-speaker / Bard / Poetry Medicine Carrier in the Poetry Depths Mystery School with Kim Rosen in August 2015.