A Guide to the Silence of the Irish Other World aims to present an Irish peoples’ alternative voice to the too often invisible and absent Irish narrative in many standard history books and within all glossy guide books. This book seeks to include Irish terminology and a fullest Irish gaze to depict Ireland from an Irish perspective, rather than the long set text book norm and the glossy sanitized format conforming to a dominant gaze. Which is a set in stone absolute narrative usually emanating and deriving from a British pre-set notion and definition on acceptable, objective, impartial and universal? Such fixed set in stone approach presents only a stone -dead narrative on Irish history and the Irish People. This story is usually exclusively his story which excludes her story and for many in Ireland and the Irish Diaspora world-wide, it also excludes our story, our psyche and our Irish living memory. A Guide to the Silence of the Irish Other World is an Irish narrative from the soul of Ireland that while a silent soul in history, it is very much alive in the book, A Guide to the Silence of the Irish Other World. The book is written deeply mindful of the Irish anam (soul) and spirit to better provide an Irish voice to a voiceless Irish, a silent Irish from ancient times to the present moment. The title of the book alludes to such silence especially during the Big Hunger - wrongly described as the “Great Irish Famine” because there was no food shortage in Ireland but it also strives to give a living presence to the Irish Other Worlds beyond this earthly world and furthermore bring the visitor and reader into the serenity of the soul-filled, silent hush, awe and wonder that the Irish landscape and its sacred places exude in abundance. The book also contains more than 50 photographs in the firmest belief that a picture paints a thousand words. This is to better illustrate the silence of the Irish other world and bring it to your own fireside and to enhance any planned visit to Ireland. However, the book is deliberately and purposefully designed to be a journey in itself. A journey that is an all encompassing Irish experience that delivers a meaningful experience of Ireland and Irish ways. The book seeks primarily to bring Ireland to the hearth and home of the reader wherever that home might be world-wide and secondly to bring the reader to Ireland. I believe the book decodes a more authentic Ireland that will enrich, awaken and clearly demonstrate Irelands silent story and its loudest wonder for locals and visitors alike. Go raibh mile maith agaibh - A thousand thanks
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:40:24 +0000
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