Contents

Epigraph

List of Illustrations

A Note on Research

A Note on the Illustrations

Little Insights on Ireland

Introduction: Where and Why Beara?

Spring

The Season of Imbolc

1 Coming into Dublin

2 “Blow-In” Initiation

3 Irish History—Fast

4 The Ring of Beara: Our First “Loop” Adventure

5 The Magic at MacCarthy’s

6 An Introduction to Dzogchen Beara

7 Monologue on Mortality

8 Moments of Meditation

9 A Delicious Work in Progress: Gastronomic Romps Around Beara

10 Padraig O’Reagan: Ireland Then and Now

11 A Very Revealing May Day

12 Beara Healers

13 Leaving Beara for the First Time

Summer

The Season of Beltaine (“Bright Fire”)

14 Days with Carey Conrad

15 Cookies with Cormac and Rachael

16 The Creators

17 The Enumerator Cometh

18 Luka Bloom (and Christy Moore)

19 At Anam Cara

20 Listening and Learning

Autumn

The Season of Lughnasa

21 The Ryder Cup Roars In

22 With the Fish People

23 This Farming Life

24 A Scrap Odyssey

25 Walking the Beara Way (or Not…)

26 Weather Signs (and Visions Too)

27 Danny’s “Song of Beara”

Winter

The Season of Samhain

28 Set Dancing at Twomey’s

29 Tales of the Seanachai

30 A Trip to Tuosist (and Way Beyond)

31 Celtic Conversations

32 Returning to the Stones

33 Rooting Around: A Final Adventure in Search of My Irish Heritage

About the Author

Other Books by David Yeadon

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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