Mazgeen Press

Tirana introduces Hugh Reynir, a photographer in Key West, Florida, who moonlights as a bluegrass banjo player. He meets and is pursued and wooed by an enigmatic Spanish woman, much to his annoyance. Only at the end of Earn Fire do we learn the reason for her interest. Earn Fire takes Reynir to Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, and finally Ireland, where he is alternately befriended and threatened by a variety of personages from Celtic and Norse mythology.

"The Celts call by the names of gods that hidden something that only reverent eyes can see." - Tacitus, Germania 9

"There is a race of men and a race of gods; both are of the breath of the same mother. Power is the distinction: man is weak, the gods endure. However, in some ways we resemble the immortals, whether in greatness of mind or in physical nature, though we know not what destiny is laid out for us by day or night." - Pindar Nemean 6 (c. 465 BC)

“This is a story where nothing is as it appears... I love the way that everything is tied together at the end. ... the blending of Welsh, Irish, Scottish and even Norse legends ... definitely keeps you entertained as you follow Hubert-Hugh-Luis’s journey to his destiny.” - from a review by Chere Gruver

Read Part One of Earn Fire here.

Tirana
ISBN 978-0-915330-08-9
Available from Amazon US and Amazon UK for the Kindle Reader

Earn Fire
ISBN 978-0-915330-09-6
Available from Amazon US and Amazon UK for the Kindle Reader

More than 40 au pairs talk about their experiences, good and bad, with Irish families. They give advice on how to avoid problems or deal with them as they come up. The consensus is: everyone should be an au pair once - but once is enough!

The first edition of Au Pair in Ireland was published by Prentice Hall in 1996.

A very well written book, February 14, 2010 by tlp (5 stars)
“This book is quite unique and very well written. it teaches you what an au pair is and how to become an au pair and what to do when problems arise. Many au pairs and hosts were interviewed for this book. It is quite an amazing book and if you ever want to become a au pair or a host of an au pair this book is a must read and I highly recommend it.”
Review from: Au Pair in Ireland (Kindle Edition)

See excerpts here.

Some of these 48 experiences happened to me, others I witnessed as a fascinated bystander, and a few are anecdotes told to me by friends and acquaintances. They remain with me as life-enhancing lessons and valuable insights into the many facets of human and animal personality and character: kindness, generosity, prejudice, determination, courage, pain, sorrow, delight, love and the ability to reach beyond earthly limitations that brings us to our full human (and dolphin) potential.

I have shared these stories with listeners to RTÉ Radio One and readers of The Sacred Heart Messenger in Ireland, and I have collected them in this book so that others might find in them the same inspiration that they continue to bring to me.