Ceallaigh's Blog
I'm delighted to report that my poem entitled, "When I arrived, this is what She said" will appear in the Fall 2011 issue of the very fine poetry journal Goblin Fruit.
I've been asked to provide a reading of the piece, so I think I'm going to head to Peggy's Cove and see if my iPad can successfully record my voice against the sound of the ocean hitting the rocks there.
I've just learned that attendees of the Celtic Gathering Canada 2009 have asked if I'll be teaching bodhrán again this year, so my bodhrán workshop has been added to the 2011 schedule.
The traditional Scottish Gaelic milling group I sing with, An Cliath Clis, will be recording its second live CD at the annual An Cliath Clis milling frolic in late April. I'll be singing two songs for the CD, Alasdair Mhic Cholla and Coisich a Rùin. The CDs will be $20 each, and they'll be as close as you can get to authentic Gaelic song without passing the cloth yourself.
It also looks like I'll be offering a presentation about the preservation/revival of Gaelic in Nova Scotia at the Celtic Gathering Canada 2011 in Mansfield, Ontario. I delivered two presentations at the first Celtic gathering two years ago; a survey of Celtic languages and a bodhrán workshop.
UPDATE: Pentacle Magazine hasn't updated its web site since Autumn 2010, and its editor hasn't responded to my query about this piece, so I have withdrawn it and submitted elsewhere.
I'm pleased to announce that my article, "Blood Rites: The Case Against Animal Sacrifice" will appear in a forthcoming issue of Pentacle Magazine. The article is a polemic against the practice of food-based, ritual animal slaughter in Paganism.
I am delighted to announce that my poem "A Path Without Bones", which was published in the Spring Equinox 2010 edition of Eternal Haunted Summer, has been nominated for the 2011 Rhysling Award.
This is my first Rhysling Award nomination, and I couldn't possibly be happier about it. My thanks to Rebecca Buchanan, editor of Eternal Haunted Summer, for giving this poem a voice.
I've been interviewed by Deborah Blake! Check it out here.
I am a Druid member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids who prepared the attached gwers as a gift to the Order upon completion of the Ovate grade. If you are a member of the Order in the Ovate Grade or higher, you can request the password to this document by sending me an e-mail that contains the first sentence of the first paragraph on the first white page of your first Ovate gwers.
Yours in the Grove,
Ceallaigh
I've been interviewed by Rebecca Buchanan for Eternal Haunted Summer! Check it out here.
Rebecca Buchanan of Eternal Haunted Summer was kind enough to interview me for the Winter Solstice 2010 edition of the journal. That interview is available online now.
This marks the end of my publication year, which was again somewhat sparse, not because I'm not selling anything, but because I'm not writing anything short. The novel is close to completion, however, and my hope is that next year, I'll be able to list that sale at year's end. In the meantime, here's what I published in 2010:
Articles
"The Motif of Sovereignty in Irish Poetry." Aontacht 3.2. September 2010.