The Journey
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By chance John, a skilled facilitator, met other young people who were forced into that miserable, morose migration of the largely unreported ‘an Gorta Beag’ (small Famine).
These included the enthralling James Feely, who found unlikely inspiration from the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. This led to the discovery of his psychic powers. He meets the recently deceased Paul Cullen, Ireland’s first Cardinal, hears divinations from Thomas FitzGerald the 10th Earl of Kildare about a meeting with the most beautiful Empress in Europe and the Three Magi who predicted the miraculous Apparitions at Knock. Who, if anyone, does he dare tell? We meet the troubled Matthew and his resolute sister Mary. After Maggie, their teenage unmarried sister, gave birth they resolved to travel to America to find her displaced infant. What caused one of the siblings to have a change of heart?
Church Martin, a gifted musician and mystic, follows that ancient Celtic tradition of using music to enchant and distract an enemy rather than entertain. He demonstrates this by stopping the movement of the ship mid Atlantic to becalm the vessel. Will Church and Mary discover the angst of an unrequited love? Jack Turner is a young man with a hidden past. Will he too find unexpected friendship? The story, a unique blend of fiction and non-fiction, culminates in the friction of a frantic, frenzied pursuit for survival to avoid an enforced asylum admission and deportation.
The unfolding personal revelations become a fascinating intrigue - a compelling timeless Irish Tale that is more than a match for The Canterbury Tales.
Atlantic Anecdotes and Dark Disclosures en route from the Inishowen Peninsula to the Port of New York.
Daniel Somers
Birth location is a circumstance of fate. Spiritual home is a choice. Daniel is a contemporary Donegal Antaeus. His inspiration and energies come especially from Inishowen traditions, people, land, sky and seascapes. A practising Counselling Psychologist, he possesses the uncommon gift of empowering his characters to tell their intimate stories in their own words rather than his. He describes his writing experience as follows: “I am simply the fortunate, intuitive psychic at the keyboard who heeded the voices of the characters, attended to their wishes and typed, not what came into my head, but what came out of theirs. For that reason I am circumspect about claiming any credit.” Daniel lives in the village of Strangford with his devoted wife, Breige Ellen Assumpta.
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