Jack Roberts Livres

Sheela-na-gig, the squatting, bald woman with comically large ears holding herself open in the most blatant way has long been a figure of mystery throughout Ireland where the stone statues are most prevalent. A multiplicity of theories have left Sheela-na-gigs the subject of curiosity. Researcher Jack Roberts has spent decades documenting and discovering Sheela-na-gigs in all her incarnations. His work places them as a critical element of Gaelic and Celtic culture at the crossroads of the Christian conversion of Ireland. This rigorous survey shows they are neither graven images nor warnings against women as the source of lust but highly spiritual images of female divinity and power. Roberts takes readers to the Ireland of the Middle Ages, a land filled with mystery, conflict, and contradictions as he brings the world in which the Sheela-na-gig thrived. This is a deluxe flexi-bound edition.

This is a guide to the mythological and sacred centers of Ireland, organized by provinces: Leinster (Laigin), Ulster (Ulaid), Connacht, Munster (Muman). Review of these centers is prefaced with a useful introduction to the "Ancient Mythic Landscape." Thereafter follows an extensive inventory including (but not limited to) discussion and illustration of the Bru n Boinne, Tara, Loughcrew and the Ancient Sites of the Royal County Uisneach, Cruachain, Emhain Macha, and the Ancient Centres of the Provincial Goddesses."