Synopses & Reviews
Using history, spirituality, topography, and archaeology, O Riordain brings Celtic sites to life in such a way that readers may find themselves stepping off a Viking longship or on to the Smyril Line of a Caldeonian MacBrayne ferry, listening to a pibroch in the company of James IV on his pilgrim way to Whithorn; seeing the terror on the face of a wrong-doer scurrying towards the security of Maelrubha's sanctuary at Applecross; gardening on the Machair on Iona with innumerable saintly monks; or perhaps sitting tensely at Whitby in 664 AD awaiting the outcome of the Synod.