Updating Irish Mythology for today's reader.

Of course, it doesn't HAVE to be updated. Irish mythology is as engaging and meaningful today as it perhaps ever has been. Maybe even moreso, given what the country has undergone. But I think it's good to keep things updated, refreshed and reinvented to prevent people ever thinking of them as stale or part of any kind of establishment thinking ( which surely means instant death ).

I think a very good example is the book 'Zeus grants stupid wishes' by Cory O'Brien. Here's a guy who went and rewrote Greek mythology as if it were typed into IM on your phone and engaged a whole new generation of readers and followers, many of whom might not ever have read Greek mythology previously. I guess that's what I'm trying to do with It's the Stars Will Be Our Lamps. I'm not sure if anyone's gone and rewritten this kind of Irish story in this way before, but if not I hope this can get out to people who might not usually read mythology or the old stories and make a connection.

It's the Stars Will Be Our Lamps



Alan Walsh