Dearbhail's Song

by Paul Reilly

Overview

Ireland is an ancient land whose origins are lost in the mists of mythical prehistory. Fortunately much of this prehistory has been preserved by the seanchaithe or traditional story tellers who would relate the sagas of great warriors long past around turf fires at night. In time, these traditional stories were written down by scribes, but some what imperfectly. However, the closest any of these manuscripts come to a history is Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of Invasions), which relates the arrival of the Tuatha Dé Danann and their bitter victory in the Second Battle of Moytura.

Sadly, much has been left out of even the Lebor Gabála Érenn and it is only recently that elfin sources discovered and translated from the original Quenya by J. R. R. Tolkien have become available, although with very limited availability. A small part of this treasure trove of information relates to an elf named Ailbe, who with her father Calatar, escaped from Kiertotähti when it was destroyed by Moriheru, the Black Wizard. Here, on Earth, Ailbe and her father were deeply involved in the rise of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Érieann. And a part of that story is the saga of Dearbháil and Cassmail, their tragic love and how their true love overcame all.

With Dearbháil's Song, we are proud to add their love story to the tradition of Lebor Gabála Érenn and thus fill in some of the missing pieces as well as reveal the extent of elfin influences upon our Irish prehistory.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013550063
Publisher:	Poitin Press
Publication date:	11/29/2011
Series:	Dearbhail , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	411 KB

About the Author

Paul Reilly
A technologist who earned his Ph.D. in 1972, Paul Reilly started off writing PDP-11 assembly programs for Digital Equipment Corporation in the early 1970's, before moving to the Silicon Valley in 1979 to join the microprocessor revolution. A veteran of too many start-ups, Paul eventually joined Silicon Graphics, where he first wrote code for Unix, and then moved on to networking, telecommunications, digital video and compression. A quick learner, he mastered Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, TCP/UDP/IP, ATM, SDH, SONET, MPEG, JPEG and a host of other technologies.
Early on, creative writing became a major release for him from the daily grind of the high-technology world. As the years went by, the pile of manuscripts accumulated, until in 1999, he sold out and retired to the Sierra foothills of California. Finally free of the daily route 101 commute, Paul has at last had time to finish these books and publish them. The first were The Espionage Game and Dragon Fire. Next. 2006 saw the publishing of thefirst two books of the Alex O'Connor trilogy, Negrita and The Rule, which are a fictionalized autobiography.
In addition, we published Sea Eagle in 2006, an Old Man and the Sea story about the American Home Front of World War II.
In 2011, we published two Irish fairy tales written by Paul as well. The first is The Legend of Dearbhaíl, a fairy legend set in the prehistory of Ireland, and Dearbhaíl's Lament, a Romeo and Juliet tragedy set in the Troubles of Northern Ireland in 1924.
Additionally in 2011 we published a science fiction novel about the Ban-dol, which comes to Area 51 to reclaim its flying saucer.
Other books are in the works as well, including the Fionnuala series , the story of an Irish elf and her adventures over a very long lifetime. The first book will be Kilcarrick, which is in the publication cycle and should be out in 2011. There are presently two more books in this series being worked on with at least three more in planning stages