An Irish Heritage Ebook

An Irish Heritage

What characterises any nation are their songs and stories. One other characteristic that is quite unique to Ireland is her number of blessings. Irish blessings probably out number all other nations across the world put together.

Most great stories, great songs and blessings are written in order to remind you of what it important. They are written to answer key questions about life. They invite purpose, passion and real prosperity. They answer questions such as "Who am I?" and "Why am I here?"

Ireland is a land apart both physically and spiritually. There are parts of her that will always remain wild. She will not be tamed. She is happy to invite you into your wildness. Ireland invites you through her songs, stories and blessings to live at threshold places of magic and mystery.

This magic and mystery of Irelands songs, stories and blessings are still being sung and still being told. These songs and stories contain deeper invitations. They invite you beyond the known and into the wildness of heart that is bewilderment. This wildness invites meaning. It takes you into a way of seeing beyond your normal way of seeing the world. It invites you out of any sense of disheartenment. The Irish have been a great nation of lamenters and the word lament comes from the root of the word 'care.'

These songs here are heart songs. They are songs that most everyone has heard even if they do not know them. Included are links to renditions of these songs that this Irish storyteller considers invite the heart to cross threshold places beyond our normal everyday absence of a sense of wonder.

In Ireland we have a name for this timeless dimension. We call it the Land of the Forever Young, The Land of Tir na Nog. This is not just an old Irish story but also an ancient invitation to the beauty and power of your heart when it is at home. Stories are told because they get beyond the intellect and the censor. They lull you into a state where the heart knows what the head cannot. In such a state you can become one who is a seer. You get to see what it means to be the unique creative dance you are here to be.

Irish storyteller Tony Cuckson invites you to claim your Irish Heritage through stories and songs and blessings. There is no requirement that you be Irish. There is a requirement that you still wish to feel a sense of beauty at the heart of who you are. This ebook "An Irish Heritage includes songs such as Danny Boy, Raglan Road (as sang by the great Luke Kelly of the Dubliners) and My Lagan Love. These are songs of inspiration and connectedness a land steaped in the timeless.

In order to celebrate this heritage of songs, stories and blessings this Irish storyteller has written an ebook inviting you to celebrate what it is to be connected to your heart song, your heart story and your hearts blessing.

You are likely to know the songs and blessings included in this book. What you will not know is their deeper invitation of what the island of Ireland has never quite forgotten in the race toward less and less time. The land of Ireland has never forgotten the Land of the Forever Young and never forgot the hearts life of magic and mystery.

The songs, stories and blessings included in An Irish Heritage are revelations in their own way. They invite you to sing the universal song that created you to be sound in body, mind and soul. Their invitation is layered. If you take their meaning on a literal level then you may miss the invitation to feast on your life. Like all great stories, songs and blessings they can deepen within you if you accept their invitation to come along the enchanted way.

When you have read An Irish Heritage then the next time you hear the song Danny Boy let it trigger a remembrance at the heart of this song. Next time you hear Lagan Love let it not simply be a remembrance of a song about a woman who sings a song of heart's desire. Next time you hear or read the Irish blessing "May the road rise up to meet you" let yourself be reminded that the road you are on called "my life" is more than you might ever imagine it to be.

"An Irish Heritage"
Songs, Stories and Blessings

The Songs

• Danny Boy - The invitation from a father to a son. This song reminds us of our primary purpose. The purpose of Love expressed in form. Includes links to song song by Eva Cassidy.
  
• My Lagan Love - This song is about a stream. This stream is the flow of your life when you are in love with your creative ability. It is a life filled with blessing of all kinds that you are then able and willing to share with others. In this way the stream never dries up and the lily fair who is your true sense of beauty grows. - the meaning of what it is to feel called to adventure and the rewards of the journey.
  
• Raglan Road - As this song by the great Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh tells us you can be walking along a city street minding your own business and it happens. At any moment you can be called along the enchanted way. Enchantment can happen at any time and if you are alive then it should be happening.

The Stories

• Return to Tir Na Nog - This story invites you to learn that the land of Tir Na Nog - the Land of the Forever Young is not just some old Irish story. This Irish storyteller brings alive the old Irish stories for modern minds. This story is about some who wants hasn`t enough time and wants to get her life back.
  
• The King of the Faeries - Many of us are riddled with doubt. We feel we have lost the magic and mystery we are intended to be. In Ireland we are aware of treshold places where we can be invited to remember what is really important. But what if we fell down the rabbit hole and couldn`t get back unless we could answer the central question of our lives.
  
• The Stolen Child - Based around a poem by the great Irish poet William Bulter Yeats we enter the story of the child who is called away to the waters and the wild. In the childs place is left the changling. What is that changling where you.

The Blessings

• The Blessing of the Road - This is a full appreciation of the most common of all Irish Blessings which begins, "May the Road Rise up to meet you." This blessings isn`t just about how you might travel through an Irish landscape. At its deeper level it invites you to understand the journey of your life.
  
• The Blessing of Deep Peace - Deep peace isn`t something that you learn to get. It is a state of mind that you tune into. In this modern age of running ever faster in order to stand still a real understanding of deep peace will give you more than any other thing. Why? Because deep peace is a feeling that goes beyond time.
  
• The Blessing of Wisdom - We do not need more knowledge. We need more wisdom. Wisdom is not something that you acquire through the intellect but through the heart. This gives you a different way of seeing the world. You become and insider rather than an outsider. You become empowered in the way that creation intended.

On each page of this book is a picture. A picture, they say, paints a thousand words. These pictures will speak to you on a level beyond intellectual understanding alone. They are included with the intention that they open the heart of the blessing you are intended to be. When this happens then you will want to do one thing. You will want to share this blessing with others.

Then a magical thing begins to happen. You will find that the more you give these Irish Blessings away through song, story and blessings the more they come back to you. This is not because you are a bargin hunter but because you are not attuned to a fundamental law of life and Love. You become attractive in a very new way and blessings flow.

Included in this book (available now as a download) are links to all the songs. These renditions are the best that this Irish storyteller knows. All these songs can be song unaccompanied and will make you lots of friends should you ever feel enchanted enough to sing them to others.

Download this book now and tune into a heritage full of passionate song, uplifting story and blessings.

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