Seattle Irish Book Club Welcomes
White Rock Irish Book Club
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GUESTS meet Patricia Monaghan, Irish-American author of the book The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog (centre), at the home of Seattle Book Club hostess Judith Adams (right). |
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CIRCLE OF FRIENDS in Seattle - Mary Fynes, Ann Law, Mary Schlota, Judith Adams (president Seattle Irish Book Club), Margaret Ryan and Deirdre O'Ruairc. |
By MARY FYNES
VANCOUVER - Five members of the White Rock Irish Circle of Friends Book Club attended a special meeting of the Seattle Irish Book Club on June 9 at the invitation of hostess Judith Adams.
The Seattle Book Club had recently read The Red-Haired Girl From The Bog by Irish-American, Patricia Monaghan.
Patricia is a member of the interdisciplinary faculty at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches literature and environment. She also lectures widely on goddess mythology and Irish spirituality and was pleased to offer an in-depth slide presentation on her research and book.
The Red-Haired Girl From The Bog is part autobiography, part description of landscape, part analysis of myth and literature and offers insight into the Irish mythological culture.
The Circle of Friends' visit to Seattle helped establish a sister relationship between the two Irish book clubs. Members of the Seattle group are planning a trip north to coincide with a Circle of Friends meeting in the fall. The two groups will agree on a book for discussion at the joint meeting.
The final meeting of the White Rock Irish Circle of Friends on June 23 included a tour of the local Surrey Darts Hill Garden Park. The theme of mythology was repeated here with the delightful appearance of Otherworld faeries frolicking through the woods - an appropriate ending to a gathering which included a report on the visit to Seattle and an agreement to read Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scriptures for the September meeting.
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