23/08/2026
I wanted to say hello and introduce myself to so many of you who have joined me here in recent months. Thank you for your company here. (Click on the first image and scroll from there 🤗).
Where I grew up in Connemara, if someone doesn’t know you, you answer by recounting something of your family — your parents, and those who came before them, your lineage. In the telling, you are placed within a web of kinship, community and place. You are known through your lineage.
So, by way of introduction, I wanted to share something of my own people: some of the women who came before me, the landscape and traditions that formed the world of my childhood, and something of the path that eventually became my work.
The older I become, the more I understand that piecing together the stories of our lives — who we are, where we come from, who our people are — connects us to the ground of our own being.
And perhaps returning to the ground of our own being is the journey of the soul.
My work with Irish folklore, mythology, language and the Gaelic Otherworld, alongside Jungian depth psychology, has become a way of exploring that return — what these old traditions might still have to say to us, and how they might bring us into deeper relationship with the inner world and soul self.
Perhaps this work is, in some small way, my own bridge back to them. My ancestors.
If you follow me on Instagram you will hear the voice accompanying this post is Joe Éinniú (Joe Heaney), the renowned sean-nós singer who came from my own community in Connemara. His voice, too, is a thread back to that world.
Míle buíochas agus grá dóibh.
A thousand thanks and love to them.
And thank you for your company here.
Wishing you a lovely Sunday.
Grá agus Beannacht, (love and blessings),
Eileen
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