Patricia Monaghan
Patricia Monaghan, PhD is one of the pioneers of the contemporary women's spirituality movement. She is the author of more than 15 books of poetry and nonfiction, including the classic encyclopedia, The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, now in print for over 20 years, winner of the Best Visionary Non-Fiction Award at the International New Age Trade Show. A winner of the prestigious Pushcart Prize for Literature in 2004, her work was also included in "Best American Spiritual Writing" that year. Her most recent book is The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit (New World Library). She is bi-local, teaching as a member of the interdisciplinary faculty of Chicago's DePaul University during the week and planting trees and vines in Black Earth, Wisconsin on weekends. (Many of her books and the tape The Way of the Goddess are available from ACE)
The Celtic Path: Ireland's Spiritual Geography
From the great fire shrine of Kildare in the eastern province of Leinster, down through the mountainy passes of the hag or Cailleach in the southwest, across scenic Connaught with its fairies and warrior queens, to the great stone shrines of Ulster and Meath -- come explore the way the Goddess still speaks to us in Ireland.
