Introduction: Where and Why Beara?
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
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
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”
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