Book description
Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony
how cycles of personal discovery have connected international
performing artist Treasa O'Driscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way
you'd 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. O'Driscoll's life entwines with musicians, poets,
teachers, artists, actors, farmers, unexpected strangers and familiar
drunkards. Their lives all become a single interwoven tapestry of
common meaning connected at the level of the soul.
"In her glorious Celtic Woman memoir, Treasa
O'Driscoll has captured an amazingly full life in its myriad phases of
growth and the result is illuminating and deeply moving. The emotional
journey she undertakes is reminiscent of the best autobiographies-and
so, too, the intellectual journey that never desists; that makes us,
too, want to undertake such a journey and meet these wise individuals
and have our own lives transformed accordingly. This is a book that,
with deep urgency, I want to pass along to others."
-Matthew Corrigan, author, retired Professor of Creative
Writing, York University
Author TREASA O'DRISCOLL, raised in a large Catholic family in
Ireland, met and married a Canadian devoted to the Celtic Consciousness,
and raised three sons and a daughter. Today residing in Barrie, Canada,
she performs public concerts of poetry and song in Europe, the United
States, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and England.
