Some earlier posts discussed the use of themes taken from myths, and the mythical characters, as archetypal elements for the writing of contemporary fiction.
The cliffs along the north coast are penetrated deeply by inlets, or clefts (scoilteanna). To the east of the lighthouse, not far from the graveyard (of a shipwrecked crew of the HMS Wasp, another story altogether) is Scoilt an Mhuiriseain. Onto its stony beach, in the time of St Colmcille, there drifted a boat carrying seven people. Dr. Edward Maguire quotes Manus O'Donnell, the sixteenth century author of "The Life of St. Columba": 'The fame of his [St. Colmcille's] wisdom, his knowledge, his faith, his piety, had gone forth throughout the entire world, and the holy children of the King of India had conceived love for him on account of the rumours ... there were six sons (of them) and one0 Comments on the holy clay as of 1/1/1900Add a Comment