EITHNE MASSEY is a graduate of University College Dublin and NUI Maynooth, and a short-story writer. She has worked with the Arts Council and as a librarian. Her interest in mythology has been a lifelong one. Legendary Ireland: A Journey through Celtic Places and Myths and Best-Loved Irish Legends are published by The O’Brien Press.
Eithne lives between Ireland and a cottage in Brittany, which is surrounded by oak forests very like those in The Secret of Kells. No wolves have been spotted, but there are wild boar, foxes, deer, fire salamanders, squirrels and many birds.
In the novelisation of the movie, The Secret of Kells, Eithne brings to life the story of the orphaned Brendan, from the monastery of Kells and his part in the completion of one of the world’s most famous and treasured books, the Book of Kells.