A question I have thought about a lot in the last couple of years is ‘Who do you think you are?’ with some of the different tones it can be expressed with – sarcastically, critically or with genuine curiosity. I have certainly met each of these versions of that question as I have explored it over the years, and in writing this introduction.

Growing up I was often told I was in a world of my own, and ‘away with the fairies’. This no longer carries the shame it once did. I recognise this now as an essential part of the ‘who I am’ question. I have an innate pull to the inner world – sometimes out of necessity as a way to make the unbearable bearable, a place to begin to make sense of what is happening in ‘real’ life. It is also often where I felt most at home, and still do. 

I was born and raised in Northern Ireland and I hold dear my Celtic ancestry with all that can mean – the beautiful gifts and strengths of my ancestral lineage as well as the burdens carried in the past, and what I too bear in my time and place on that line.  

If you too are drawn to this question of ‘who do you think you are?’  do explore the site further and see if there is something here for you.