Song of Ireland
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Can we also believe in the Danu—the Tuatha de Danaan—as a “real” people? Some say impossible; others hope that they did—or do—indeed exist. And you? More things under heaven and earth, friends.
As for me, I have loved my time with all of them, braided as I have been into the fictional complexities of both worlds. I hope that this story affords you the same journey.
Bail O Dhia or an obair
Bless, O God, the work
Juilene Osborne-McKnight
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
SONG OF IRELAND
Copyright © 2006 by Juilene Osborne-McKnight
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Osborne-McKnight, Juilene.
Song of Ireland / Juilene Osborne-McKnight.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”
ISBN 0-765-31243-3
EAN 978-0-765-31243-3
1. Mythology, Celtic—Fiction. 2. Celts—Ireland—Fiction. 3. Fairies—Fiction. 4. Ireland—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3565.S455S66 2006
813’.6-dc22
2005044637
First Edition: May 2006
Printed in the United States of America