Celtic Woman
Listen to Treasa O'Driscoll read chapter 1 of Celtic Woman.
Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O'Driscoll to heaven and earth - but not the way you'd expect.
This surprising memoir of an Irish woman attuned to poetic updrafts and spiritual downloads in the lives of real people, many of them celebrities in Ireland and North America she counts as personal friends, exudes her Celtic heritage on every page.
Her encounters in life have been testing, tragic, romantic, and highly comic. The stars drew O'Driscoll to musicians, poets, teachers, artists, actors, farmers, unexpected strangers and familiar drunkards. Their lives all became a single interwoven tapestry of common meaning connected at the level of the soul.
"On this truly remarkable journey, the stars not only shine above the road, but reach down and touch the soul."
— Bruce Meyer, Canada, author The Golden Thread
"Treasa O'Driscoll has invented a new genre of literature — the soul memoir."
— Robert Sardello, United States, author of Freeing the Soul from Fear
"Richly layered with meaning, writing is thinking, here."
— Nuala O'Faolain, Ireland, author of My Dream of You
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- Titile: Celtic Woman
- Category: Biography / Memoirs
- ISBN: 978-0-9781600-2-9
- Price: $24.95 USA/CDN paperback
- Format: 350 pages 5½ x 8½
- Features: Includes photos, subject index, author interview.
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- Tags: Autobiography, Celtic studies, philosophy, poetry
Comments (1)
This is a book packed with stories and wisdom, and bubbling with a pervasive humour. Celtic Woman is, above all, a description of how a human life consists in relationships. And what friendships its author, Treasa O’Driscoll, has had!
O'Driscoll's life has not been easy. But it has been packed with an array of surprising connections that make you think, as you read her stories, of karma or fate.
With her late husband, Robert, author of The Celtic Consciousness, she has a central place in the contemporary explosion of interest in things Celtic and especially Irish, yet has not limited herself to that. Rather, she lives in her person the way that the Celtic Spirit released into the wide world proves an essential leaven for the spiritual bread of all nations.
This is a book that will make you laugh and cry and sigh with wonder as you accompany O'Driscoll on adventures across continents. Celtic Woman is filled, as a bonus, with amazing photographs of her journeys and her circle, a tipsy Marshall McLuhan among them, and of the author herself and her family at various ages.
Michael Lipson, author of Stairway of Surprise