The central work: novel excerpts and essays from my prose retelling of Buile Suibhne.
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Historical and mythic context: texts, places, and the MacSweeney inheritance around the Sweeney tradition.
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Why this project exists: to bridge medieval imagination, Christian symbolism, and modern literary craft.
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Chronicle Quest and Chronicle Writer: software that extends the same bardic storytelling vision.
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The author page: bio, the Sweeney-Merlin thread, and the key literature shaping this retelling.
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Enchantment, captivity, and the disciplines that keep us human — Merlin and Suibhne as liminal figures who become voices of warning and vision.
A rule of craft for modern life — attention, making, and the eternal. The scriptorium tradition as a transferable practice for forming perception and preserving memory.
The frenzy. The exile. The flight. A medieval Irish tale of a king driven into the wild — part saga, part lament, part lyric poetry.
Stone on the Atlantic edge. The ancient stronghold of the MacSweeneys in Donegal — built in the early 1500s and held through turbulent centuries.
A name with many branches. Lineage, migration, and the unfolding story of Clann tSuibhne — from Gaelic lordship to the modern diaspora.
