Sanctuary

Contents: Part one: Book of hours. Invitatory: Lauds -- Things worth praising -- Morning, Thoor Ballylee -- Saint Gobnait's deer -- Seeking the well -- A garden near the sea -- Lessons from the trees -- Saint Gobnait's bees -- Book of hours -- Evensong -- Latiaran's heart -- Stone house in high wind -- Connemara autumn -- Palm of the sparrow -- How to confess -- Latiaran's well -- On the famine road -- Grace at table -- Keeping vigil in Renvyle -- Killary Harbour -- Brigit mourns her son Ruadan -- Epistles from dead friends -- Wind liturgy -- Brigit invents whistling -- Lessons from birds -- Eve, afterwards -- Dawn at Brigit's well -- Part two: Land mass. Getting to black earth -- Earthmaker judges the world -- Celebration of the ordinary -- Planting the vines -- Bentwood -- The meadow -- Confiteor: a country song -- Forgetting Gobnait -- Crane dance -- The year in apples -- Lesson of the bees -- Things to believe in -- Young deer -- Transubstantiation -- Wildness and grace -- The late garden -- Storm lessons -- Harvest evening -- Turn, turn, turn -- Man'do is good, I slept -- Ways to leave.