I recommended this book the other day, as many of us do, when someone asked for a good book about Brigit. The woman I was speaking with came back to say the only copies she could find were prohibitively expensive. I hadn’t realised it had gone out of print. In my opinion it is one of the two read-first books on Brigit, with Morgan Daimler's Pagan Portals - Brigid. I wrote to the publisher and received this disappointing reply:
The book is one of the titles that the old Columba Press printed before the company went into liquidation in 2016. We are a different company, Columba Books and our managing director, Garry O'Sullivan is in charge of all reprints. As there hasn't been much interest in this book since it went out of print, unfortunately, I do not believe that there are any plans to reprint this title or to format it as an ebook.
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Who has the rights for it? If it is the author, maybe an appeal to him to publish it through another publisher as an ebook?
Sadly, the author is dead. I suppose you would need to contact either his community (at Glendalough, if I remember correctly) or his publisher to find out who his literary executor might be, and take it from there.
I found his death notice here:
https://notices.irishtimes.com/death/o-duinn-sean/51309599
It says here that his monastic brethren are from Glenstal Abbey, which is in Co. Limerick. The death notice does not mention any relatives. Maybe asking the abbot cab shed some light on the matter?
Haha! I remembered the "Glen" part alright.
Yes, that would be a good way to go. Are you thinking of trying to reprint it?
Glenstal.
Yes! Thanks, Sara Jane.
So needed!!
Agreed, Bridee!
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