Celtic Woman: A Memoir of Life's Poetic Journey

This is a book packed with stories and wisdom and bubbling with a pervasive humor: a must-read! It is above all a description of how a human life consists in relationships -- and what friendships she has had! O'Driscoll's life has not been easy, but it has been packed with an array of surprising connections that make you think of karma or fate as you read her stories. With her late husband Robert, author of Celtic Consciousness, she has a central place in the contemporary explosion of interest in things Celtic and especially Irish, but she has not limited herself to that. Rather, she lives in her person the way that the Celtic spirit, released into the wide world, proves an essential leaven for the spiritual bread of all nations. This is a book that will make you both laugh and cry and sigh with wonder as you follow O'Driscoll on adventures across many continents. (personal disclosure: I count myself lucky to be among her thousands of friends!) Amazing photographs of her journeys and circle,a tipsy Marshall McLuhan among them, and of herself and her family at various ages.