"I have read Celtic Woman and even through its darkest pages my soul kept skipping as through a field of daisies. Soul resonance only happens between author and reader when deep truths are spoken with clarity and simplicity. The joy is in discovering that our journey is not only unique but interwoven. Treasa's Irish heritage is the cauldron but the wisdom distilled within it speaks to the journey we need to make in today's world."
Elinor Dickson, co-author with Marion Woodman of
Dancing in the Flames
"In her glorious Celtic Woman memoir, Treasa O’Driscoll has captured an amazingly full life in its myriad phases of growth and the result is illuminating and deeply moving. The emotional journey she undertakes is reminiscent of the best autobiographies—and so, too, the intellectual journey that never desists; that makes us, too, want to undertake such a journey and meet these wise individuals and have our own lives transformed accordingly. This is a book that, with deep urgency, I want to pass along to others."
Matthew Corrigan, author, retired Professor of Creative Writing, York University
"How delightful it is to be reading your book, Treasa. I was up in the middle of the night, and found myself totally excited by something in your style that has the ferment of yeast or champagne about it. It really is a shamanic gift you have: not really quite in the style, nor yet quite in the thoughts, but somehow hovering over the very text is a liveliness, almost a breathlessness, that I recognize as the Water of Life, a most precious elixir! And I have dog-eared so many pages, where there are treasures to return to, that I may as well stop marking: there's something worth returning to on every page. You have found a way of writing where it seems you are allowed to say anything at any time -- and it always fits! I also admire the way it seems a book about its own composition, like the Lotus Sutra, an ever-elaborating introduction, invitation."
Michael Lipson, author, Stairway of Surprise
"Ever, never, Ireland. There has always been an Ireland. There shall always be an Ireland. Ireland is no more, again. Its rightful place lies in the human heart where it will ever be located: ever lost and ever found. It is the Atlantis of the Heart, ever rising from our watery depths: your Avalon, my Brigadoon, our Shamballah. Here is a place of spirit in the space of the heart, here until the memories of men and women are no more."
John Robert Colombo, renowned Canadian author of Colombo’s Quotations
"Richly layered with meaning, refined as velvet, writing is thinking, here."
Nuala O’Faolain, author of My Dream of You
"When you sit down to read Treasa O'Driscoll's Celtic Woman, settle in as it is a thought train you'll not want to alight from. It is filled with play words, word play, poetry, history, romance, leaving no sense untouched. Off you go; it's a fulfilling journey."
Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming
"Celtic Woman is a magnificent chronicle of an individual's journey toward the process not only of self-healing, but of understanding and growing with the world around her. Had St. Augustine continued The Confessions into a record of his more mature years, assisted by science and modern spirituality, he would surely have found a fulfilling companion voice in Treasa O'Driscoll. There is a spirit of inquiry in this book that moves throughout these pages, animating every word and infusing the text with an energy that guides the will to love above the trials and tribulations of the world, and there it illumines as a beacon. On this truly remarkable journey, the stars not only shine above the road, but reach down and touch the soul."
Bruce Meyer, author of The Golden Thread
"Celtic Woman is like a long walk with a dear friend deep into the landscape of the Irish heart, a place that offers glimpses of magic and food for the soul."
Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation
"Treasa O'Driscoll's book is an enlightened journey back to the spiritual heart of Ireland."
James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy
"In speaking what most of the rest of us cannot speak, Treasa O'Driscoll has made an advance for humanity.Here, in this writing, we find a true language of the heart; it is strong, it is robust, it is full of will and action."
Robert Sardello, author of Freeing the Soul from Fear
"Celtic Woman, is a rich feast of a book, part travelogue, part romance, part meditation-and all of it poetry! Like the best of memoir, it manages to touch on the most personal, intimate themes of a human life and at the same time to render them universal. Readers will want to shout both Bravo! and Encore"
Michael Lipson, author of Stairway of Surprise
"Treasa is the fairy godmother of poetry-she has recited, to stunning effect and near supersensible memory, since childhood. Her book, like an intertwined laurel wreath takes her simultaneously from poem to poem like her own life."
Rufus Goodwin, author of Give Us this Day
"It's not only Ireland's enchanting landscape and the Irish spirit that Treasa's book welcomes the reader to experience, but through her life, we have a better appreciation for how that land and spirit enriches the world around us."
John Fox, author of Finding What You Didn’t Lose
"Treasa has taken the oral, literary and spiritual traditions of her Irish heritage and woven them into a living fabric that is uniquely feminine, transformative and contemporary."
Therese Schroeder-Sheker, author of Transitus


