Passage to Inis Mor by Brian O’Raleigh

When Conor O’Rourke arrives back in Ireland, his life is in bits. His marriage has fallen apart, his advertising agency in Australia is bankrupt, and he’s hearing poetic voices in his mind urging him to return to his childhood home, the remote Island of Inis Mór. His grandmother has contacted him, saying that she is dying and must speak with him, but when he arrives on Inis Mór, a hauntingly lonely, starkly beautiful island in Galway Bay, she has already passed, leaving him a cottage and a dilapidated old sailing boat. A mysterious old stranger appears, offering to help rebuild the boat and, as they work together, the old man tells Conor stories of Ireland. Legends of the Selkies, (the seal people) stories of Irishmen sailing around Cape Horn, myths of the Banshee and Cú Chulainn, the Hound of Ulster. Stories of courage, purpose, and passion could help redeem Conor’s broken life,

Category: Fantasy – Myths & Legends