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1918: Rosaleen Moore: The Rose. A seer and a healer.
The Graces
What you need to know before your trail
Revered by popular spiritualists and sought after for her gifts of prophecy and healing by fashionable society, the mighty of Dublin Castle and mercurial political agitators alike, her last extraordinary prophecy will only see her legend grow.
On the anniversary of her death, pilgrims walk the Way of the Rose: to St. Kilian’s Abbey and its bell tower which so lured the Rose in life. Although a shrine, the bell tower has seen tragedy – a heinous crime to which the monastery’s once-beloved Abbot, now imprisoned, has confessed.
Then emerges a deathbed revelation by Rosaleen Moore which casts doubt on the Abbot’s word.
The Rose has a different tale to tell . . .
Locations
Reset- Ireland - Republic of
- A: Dublin Castle
- B: St. Kilian's Abbey/Church
- C: The Campanile of Trinity College
- D: O'Connell Bridge
- Ireland - County Clare
- E: Bunratty Castle
Travel Guide
Dublin and Irish history
The book is primarily set in the lead up to The Easter Rising of 1916 and reveals a society in great flux and most definitely, on the brink of change. Most of the novel is set in Dublin with fleeting glances at County Clare where Rosaleen comes from.
This is a novel where characters have hidden and special gifts. Think gothic castles, superstitions and more.
‘We are sometimes known as magnetisers. For we use our hands, the magnetism in our own life force, to draw free the blocked stream in a suffering soul…We believe there are some beings so perfectly attuned to the life force, to unseen powers within and without, that they can see and do what others less evolved can not’
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Destination: Dublin Author/guide: Siobhan MacGowan Departure Time: 1918
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