Celtic Woman explores with open honesty and engaging irony how cycles of personal discovery have connected international performing artist Treasa O’Driscoll to heaven and earthbut not the way you’d expect. This surprising memoir of an Irish woman attuned to poetic updrafts and spiritual downloads in the lives of real people, many of them celebrities in Ireland and North America she counts as personal friends, exudes her Celtic heritage on every page. Her encounters in life have been testing, tragic, romantic, and highly comic. O’Driscoll’s life entwines with musicians, poets, teachers, artists, actors, farmers, unexpected strangers and familiar drunkards. Their lives all become a single interwoven tapestry of common meaning connected at the level of the soul. "Treasa O'Driscoll's book is an enlightened journey back to the spiritual heart of Ireland." --James Redfield, author of "The Celestine Prophecy" "I have read Celtic Woman and even through its darkest pages my soul kept skipping as through a field of daisies. Soul resonance only happens between author and reader when deep truths are spoken with clarity and simplicity. The joy is in discovering that our journey is not only unique but interwoven. Treasa's Irish heritage is the cauldron but the wisdom distilled within it speaks to the journey we need to make in today's world." Elinor Dickson, co-author with Marion Woodman of Dancing in the Flames "In her glorious Celtic Woman memoir, Treasa ODriscoll has captured an amazingly full life in its myriad phases of growth and the result is illuminating and deeply moving. The emotional journey she undertakes is reminiscent of the best autobiographiesand so, too, the intellectual journey that never desists; that makes us, too, want to undertake such a journey and meet these wise individuals and have our own lives transformed accordingly. This is a book that, with deep urgency, I want to pass along to others." Matthew Corrigan, author, retired Professor of Creative Writing, York University "Richly layered with meaning, refined as velvet, writing is thinking, here." Nuala OFaolain, author of My Dream of You "When you sit down to read Treasa O'Driscoll's Celtic Woman, settle in as it is a thought train you'll not want to alight from. It is filled with play words, word play, poetry, history, romance, leaving no sense untouched. Off you go; it's a fulfilling journey." Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming "I have read "Celtic Woman" and even through its darkest pages my soul kept skipping as through a field of daisies. Soul resonance only happens between author and reader when deep truths are spoken with clarity and simplicity. The joy is in discovering that our journey is not only unique but interwoven. Treasa's Irish heritage is the cauldron but the wisdom distilled within it speaks to the journey we need to make in today's world." --Elinor Dickson, co-author with Marion Woodman of "Dancing in the Flames" "In her glorious "Celtic Woman" memoir, Treasa O'Driscoll has captured an amazingly full life in its myriad phases of growth and the result is illuminating and deeply moving. The emotional journey she undertakes is reminiscent of the best autobiographies--and so, too, the intellectual journey that never desists; that makes us, too, want to undertake such a journey and meet these wise individuals and have our own lives transformed accordingly. This is a book that, with deep urgency, I want to pass along to others." --Matthew Corrigan, author, retired Professor of Creative Writing, York University Treasa is the fairy godmother of poetry ― she has recited, to stunning effect and near supersensible memory, since childhood. Her book, like an intertwined laurel wreath takes her simultaneously from poem to poem like her own life. -- Rufus Goodwin, author, Give Us This Day Author Treasa O'Driscoll, raised in a large Catholic family in Ireland, met and married a Canadian devoted to the Celtic Consciousness, and raised three sons and a daughter. Today residing in Barrie, Canada, she performs public concerts of poetry and song in Europe, the United States, Ireland, Scotland, Canada and England. Used Book in Good Condition