Ceallaigh's Blog
I am delighted to report that my poem 'Leviathans' has been accepted for publication in Strange Horizons.
I have taken on the roll of volunteer poetry editor for Aontacht, an online publication of Druidic Dawn. What follows is a call for submissions.
Volume 3, Issue 2,
“Sovereignty”
Deadline Aug 15, 2010
The Celts understood the Wild Earth as sovereign, as a goddess; what is sovereignty and how can we apply this to our everyday life?
For this issue, I'll be looking for poetry that addresses the relationship between the sovereign and the land as expressed in Celtic cosmology and literature. Your interpretation of this theme might be Pagan, Christian, historical, modern, fantastic or other. You might write free verse, structured verse or prose poetry. Submissions should be sent in the body of your e-mail as plain text to aontacht (at) druidicdawn (dot) org.
This is a bodhrán duet I played with Tristan at the Chelsea Sounds & Sights festival in June, 2010, which was recorded and cut by banjo player Dave Foster. I thought we sounded pretty good!
"The Interstitial Fairy Demolition Crew Casts a Circle" is now available at Eternal Haunted Summer.
The new C.S. MacCath web site went live today at 7:15 p.m. EST.
When I first learned this song as a child, I thought it was about flowers.
My very first favorite folk song. I've known the words as long as I can remember. They're here, along with the tin whistle tune.
An easy tune, and the first one I've felt I could play reasonably well. The lyrics can be found below the sheet music. Enjoy!
My entire bibliography is now online in MLA format. You can view it by clicking here or by clicking on the 'Bibliography' link above.
Caveat: This essay was written in 2004, a year and a half after I graduated from the M.A. program in English at the University of Maine. As I recall, it took me a year and a half to contextualize my experience in such a way that I didn't simply rant in broken half-sentences when I tried to write about it.
The essay was up on my web site until late 2006, when I took it down because I believed my perspective on the subject matter was too emotional and too personal. Since then, I've logged about three requests a month for the page, which is significant. So, I'm offering it here again, against my better judgment, in the hope it's of help to you. I still mean just about every word of it.
Roughly a year into my master's program at the University of Maine, a professor I knew very little invited me to write a conservative critique of J.R.R. Tolkien's work. I nearly laughed in her face, but I managed to gather my composure enough to inform her that I wouldn't have any idea how to begin such a task and would, furthermore, find it distasteful in the extreme. It was then that I realized part of the reason why I had been marginalized by the department. They all thought themselves liberal and believed I was not.