Reviews
“A wondrous romp which will delight.” —Irish American Magazine
“Terrific verse that may remind some of Seamus Heaney’s brookwater Anglo-Saxon in his Beowulf.” —Kirkus Reviews
Ulster Cycle
Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn. Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force; this is the tale of a king who dares to ignore the prophecy that foretells his fate.
Conaire Mór’s reign has ushered in a period of great happiness and good fortune, but his three foster brothers take advantage of his position and plunder the countryside. Conaire refuses to put them to death, however, and out of brotherly love banishes them to Scotland. Where they fall in with merciless sea pirates who raid the coasts of England and Ireland, brutally slaying all whom stands against them, until finally the three brothers come back to the land of Conaire Mór.
Filled with the adventure and tragedy, and told in the style that Randy Lee Eickhoff has made his own, The Destruction of the Inn is a story of Ireland’s past, and one of her most enduring tales.
“A wondrous romp which will delight.” —Irish American Magazine
“Terrific verse that may remind some of Seamus Heaney’s brookwater Anglo-Saxon in his Beowulf.” —Kirkus Reviews