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About this Book

Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa ODriscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way youd expect.

This surprising memoir of an Irish woman attuned to poetic updrafts and spiritual downloads in the lives of real people, many of them celebrities in Ireland and North America she counts as personal friends, exudes her Celtic heritage on every page.

Her encounters in life have been testing, tragic, romantic, and highly comic. The stars drew ODriscoll to musicians, poets, teachers, artists, actors, farmers, unexpected strangers and familiar drunkards. Their lives all became a single interwoven tapestry of common meaning connected at the level of the soul.

Richly layered with meaning, refined as velvet, writing is thinking,here

NUALA OFAOLAIN, author of My Dream of You

When you sit down to read Treasa ODriscolls Celtic Woman, settle in as it is a thought train youll not want to alight from. It is filled with play words, word play, poetry, history, romance, leaving no sense untouched. Off you go; its a fulfilling journey.

MALACHY McCOURT, author of A Monk Swimming

Celtic Woman is like a long walk with a dear friend deep into the landscape of the Irish heart, a place that offers glimpses of magic and food for the soul.

ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER, author of The Invitation

Celtic Woman is a magnificent chronicle of an individuals journey toward the process not only of self-healing, but of understanding and growing with the world around her. Had St. Augustine continued The Confessions into a record of his more mature years, assisted by science and modern spirituality, he would surely have found a fulfilling companion voice in Treasa ODriscoll. There is a spirit of inquiry in this book that moves throughout these pages, animating every word and infusing the text with an energy that guides the will to love above the trials and tribulations of the world, and there it illumines as a beacon. On this truly remarkable journey, the stars not only shine above the road, but reach down and touch the soul.

BRUCE MEYER, author of The Golden Thread

Treasa ODriscolls book is an enlightened journey back to the spiritual heart of Ireland.

JAMES REDFIELD, author of The Celestine Prophecy

In speaking what most of the rest of us cannot speak, Treasa ODriscoll has made an advance for humanityHere, in this writing, we find a true language of the heart; it is strong, it is robust, it is full of will and action

ROBERT SARDELLO, author of Freeing the Soul

from Fear

Celtic Woman, is a rich feast of a book, part travelogue, part romance, part meditationand all of it poetry! Like the best of memoir, it manages to touch on the most personal, intimate themes of a human life and at the same time to render them universal. Readers will want to shout both Bravo! and Encore!

MICHAEL LIPSON, author of Stairway of Surprise

Treasa is the fairy godmother of poetryshe has recited, to stunning effect and near supersensible memory, since childhood. Her book, like an intertwined laurel wreath takes her simultaneously from poem to poem like her own life.

RUFUS GOODWIN, author of Give Us this Day

Its not only Irelands enchanting landscape and the Irish spirit that Treasas book welcomes the reader to experience, but through her life, we have a better appreciation for how that land and spirit enriches the world around us.

JOHN FOX, author of Finding What You Didnt Lose

Treasa has taken the oral, literary and spiritual traditions of her Irish heritage and woven them into a living fabric that is uniquely feminine, transformative and contemporary.

THERESE SCHROEDER-SHEKER, author of Transitus

A readers comment:

By the way, Im really enjoying your book. Im still on the early chapters (time!!!!) but I find it fascinatingI keep flipping forward and getting engaged with new sections and then I have to go back and pick up the chapter flow where I left off. Your prose is lovely: full of life, energy and directness; your words are imbued with wisdom and perception. Its wonderful how you manage to pull so many things together in the flow of your narrativetheres not a page that doesnt have something that resonates deep inside me. The authority and purpose (but also the light, dancing movement) of your voice takes me back to a time in the early 1980s when I immersed myself in the writings of AE when I was at Carleton University. I look forward to continuing my reading

PETER SHEPPARD, Teacher-Librarian, Archbishop Denis OConnor Catholic High School

Celtic
Woman

A Memoir of Lifes
Poetic Journey

Treasa ODriscoll

Treasa ODriscoll

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First edition, paperback: 2008

L IBRARY AND A RCHIVES C ANADA C ATALOGUING IN P UBLICATION

ODriscoll, Treasa,1944
Celtic woman : a memoir of lifes poetic journey / Treasa ODriscoll.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-9781600-2-9

Electronic edition, ePub format:2010
ISBN 978-1-926577-20-3

1. ODriscoll, Treasa, 1944. 2. SingersCanadaBiography.

3. Performance artistsCanadaBiography.

4. Irish Canadian womenOntarioBiography. i. Title.

ML420.O275A3 2008 782.4216291620092 C2008-903975-0

Design and typesetting by Fox Meadow Creations

No government grants were sought nor any public subsidies
received for publication of this book. Blue Butterfly Books
thanks book buyers for their support in the marketplace.

In memory of Celtic visionary,
writer, teacher, and scholar,
Robert ODriscoll,
who once spread his dreams
under my feet

Cover Picture

This portrait adorned the cover of my album Farewell But Whenever: Love Songs of Ireland from the 15th Century, a release of the Irish record company Gael-Linn. Colm Henry was the assigned photographer and I believe this was his first album credit in a distinguished career that links his name with U2, Riverdance, and other leading lights in the Irish musical and literary pantheon of the past three decades.

He decided to do the shoot on Killiney Hill on the south side of Dublin. Mary ODonnell, a well-known Irish fashion designer, lived at the foot of the hill and I had recently modelled some costumes she had designed for a film about Tristan and Isolde in which Richard Burton played King Mark and which featured the music of The Chieftains.

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