Brigit Book Reviews (2): List of Books to be Reviewed

To be honest, I'm a little uncertain about some of my categories--particular works might be as happy in one as in another--so use them as general guides only, to keep the picture a little clearer on the table, not as Ultimate Pronouncements in every case.

Books to be Reviewed

Picture books:

Brigid’s Cloak, Reg Keating (1997)

Brigid’s Cloak: An Ancient Irish Story, Bryce Milligan (2002)

The Life of Saint Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, Jane Meyer (2009)

(We need some goddess-oriented Brigidine picture books.)

Novels :

Brigit of Kildare, Ann Egan (2001) (novel/poetry)

Brigid of Kildare, Cindy Thomson (2006) (novel)

Brigid of Kildare, Heather Terrell (2010) (novel)

(I hope novelists start finding more unusual names for their

Brigit books; it’s getting a bit hard to tell them apart.)

Mention only:

Confessions of a Pagan Nun, Kate Horsley (2001) (novel)

Sister Fidelma series, Peter Tremayne/Peter Beresford Ellis (1994--) (novels)

Poetry/Plays:

St Brigit of the Mantle, Norah Kelly (1924) (play)

The Story Brought by Brigit by Lady Gregory (1924) (play)

Brigit of Kildare, Ann Egan (2001) (novel/poetry)

Brighid’s Runes, ed. Rachel Mica McCann (2008) (poetry)

Nonfiction: Popular (Saint):

“Brigit, the Mary of the Gael”, from A Book of Saints and Wonders by Lady Gregory (1907)

Saint Brigid of Ireland, Alice Curtayne (1954)

Saint Bride, Iain MacDonald (1992)

Power of Raven, Wisdom of Serpent, Noragh Jones (1994)

Rekindling the Flame: a Pilgrimage in the Footsteps of Brigid of Kildare, Rita Minehan CSB (1999)

The Life of Saint Brigid, Anna Egan Smucker (2009)

Nonfiction: Popular (Neopagan):

Candlemas: Feast of Flames, Amber K and Azrael Arynn TK (2001)

“The Well of Her Memory” in Red-Haired Girl from the Bog, Patricia Monaghan (2003)

‘‘Imbolc—Brigit”, Alexei Kondratiev, in Devoted to You, Judy Harrow (2003)

Brighid’s Healing: Ireland’s Celtic Medicine Traditions, Gina McGarry (2005)

Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom, Erynn Rowan Laurie (2007)

Brigid: Goddess, Druidess and Saint, Brian Wright (2009)

Brighid and Me: Experiences with the Goddess, Hollee Swann, ed. (2010)

Nonfiction: Academic/Popular Academic:

By popular academic I mean books written in a scholarly

style for a general audience. These I can only observe as a

reader, not criticize as an expert.

The Serpent and the Goddess, Mary Condren (1989)

“Fire and the Arts” (etc) in Pagan Past and Christian Present in Early Irish Literature, Kim McCone (1990)

The Festival of Brigit, Séamas Ó Catháin (1995)

"Imbolc: A New Interpretation", by Phillip A. Bernhardt-House (pp 57-76) in Cosmos 18 (2002)

The Rites of Brigit, Goddess and Saint, Séan Ó Duinn (2005)

Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe, Lisa M. Bitel (2009)

“Queering the Flame: Brigit, Flamekeeping, and Gender in Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan Communities”, by Erynn Rowan Laurie in The Well of Five Streams: Essays on Celtic Paganism (Immanion Press, projected release 2015) 17 pp.