Ancient Ireland Fiction

Keeper of Stones a novel by Ger Moane is set in ancient Ireland, 5,000 years ago. Briona, a young woman from a small village in the Wicklow Mountains, sets out with her childhood friend on a journey to Newgrange, where she will lay her birthstone on the mound and enter the great Chamber on the morning of Winter Solstice. Voyagers arrive and warn of threats to her culture from climate change and warfare. When she falls in love with one of the Voyagers she must choose between love and destiny. Ancient myths and legends are woven alongside astrology, dream-sharing, prophecy and healing in this otherworldly and visionary novel. Purchase Keeper of Stones

Bending The Boyne, ca. 2200 BCE by J.S. Dunn, a novel of ancient Ireland. The author became interested in the megaliths of the Boyne Valley and who built them and why. With the coming of metals and marine traders, the communities and mounds fell into disrepair around the time of 2000 BCE. This novel tells the story of what happened, drawing on the rich characters from early mythology: Boann, the Dagda, Cian, and others. Purchase at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Winter solstice - A Novel by Lucy Costigan explores the agonies and the ecstasies of loving and living, and the individual's attempt to cope with the ensuing chaos. This novel is a rich portrayal of love and relationships, loss and healing, and offers readers deep insight into ancient Celtic traditions of spirituality and rebirth. Purchase at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Dawn Solstice by Olivia Kiernan. Archaeologist, Dawn Kennedy, is sent to work at Newgrange. She is drawn to studfarm owner Evan O'Brien but their relationship seems thwarted from the start. The locals talk of The Legend of the Banshee, a harbinger of death and when Dawn is haunted by a strange spectre, she feels the past reach out to her. Soon she is living in fear, fear of love, the banshee and Ireland's fractured history and Newgrange seems to be waiting, waiting for her to love, waiting for her to die. Purchase at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

Spirit Mound is a novel that focuses on the building of Newgrange when ancient tribes gathered in the Boyne River Valley to form a communal alliance consisting of the wheat tribe, the heron tribe and the wolf tribe. Oonah, chief of the wolf tribe, receives visions to build a spirit connector in which ashes of the deceased were to be placed in an inner chamber. There, during each winter solstice, the sun's rays would energize the spirits to come forth and communicate with the living up to our own time. Purchase at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

The Princes of Ireland is a novel which begins in tribal, pre-Christian Ireland during the reign of the mighty High Kings at Tara.

The prologue to the novel sets the scene of ancient Ireland with the winter solstice at Newgrange the centrepiece.

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The Stonehenge Scrolls by K.P. Robbins.
Did Irish Builders Design Stonehenge? This historical novel says that Irish builders designed Stonehenge. The author K.P. Robbins writes that a guild of monument builders trained at Ireland's Newgrange and then traveled the British Isles to supervise construction of ancient sites, including Stonehenge. Purchase at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk

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