Mary spreading fairy Dust with new book
Dust, an Irish Fairy Tale, is the debut book from Mary Bermingham, the co-founder of the Burren Nature Sanctuary in Cloonasee, Kinvara, which attracts more than 30,000 people every year. A and its fairy woodland in the townland of Cloonasee, every year.
The Sanctuary’s attractions include a looped nature trail, a botany bubble, wildflower meadow, farm animals and indoor and ourdoor play facilities. Its fairy woodland is especially popular with young visitors and in Dust, Mary is attempting to solve the mystery of what these magical creatures get up to when nobody is around.
The humorous, action-packed, magical adventure includes more than 100 colour illustrations by artist Anne Forde who lives in Killeeneen, Craughwell, where she minds sheep and paints from life.
The fairies’ trouble begins when Zarara, the gymnastic Tooth Fairy, accidentally spills the last bottle of fairy dust. That means that Queen Maeve is missing the vital ingredient to make a new batch of A Princess’s Tear. Without it, the fairies are in big trouble. They can’t fly and have lost their magic powers.
Hoping to find a solution, the wonderfully bossy Queen Maeve, the cranky King Dagda, the sprightly Zarara and the other fairies from the Hazel Woodland at Cloonasee embark on a journey to Princess Moppet’s castle.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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