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UPDATED MAY 2025

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MAY 2025 ISSUE OF THE BREHON NOW OUT!

The latest issue of The Brehon, available exclusively to active members of the Society, includes all of the latest news on Sister Fidelma around the world, as well as updates from the author, is now out.

Recent issues have also included contributions of articles on related Irish history subjects as they relate to the good Sister.

This issue’s contents include:

    • The World of Fidelma 2025
    • New International Fidelma Editions
    • Good News for US Audio Purchasers (OUR MOST COMMON QUESTION THESE DAYS FINALLY ANSWERED!)
    • Peter Interviewed in Phantasmagoria
    • Appreciation From Peter
    • You’ve Come a Long Way, Eadulf – Edward J. Rielly
    • Double-Header Book Review: The Celtic Empire by Peter Berresford Ellis and Celtic Empire by Clive Cussler — I.E. Kneverday, IrishMyths.com
    • Editorspeak

If you’re a true Fidelmaniac, and are not a member of the Society… why not? Just click on the Payment Portal to join today!

NEXT UP – GRAVE OF THE LAWGIVER

Headline Book Publishing, London, July 17, 2025. Hardcover, ISBN 978-1035423125, £22.00; Kindle, ASIN B0DG8R3NR3, 352pp.; Severn House USA, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4481315109, due out September 2025.

The year is AD 673. Fidelma accompanies Eadulf to his hometown, Seaxmund’s Ham in the Kingdom of the East Angles, to be greeted with the shocking news that Eadulf’s uncle, Athelnoth, the lawgiver, has been murdered and his house burnt down. And Eadulf’s younger sister is missing. The locals accuse Fidelma and Eadulf of the crimes, and Fidelma’s safety is threatened by the first council of the bishops and kings of the Angles and Saxons, who wish to expel all Hibernian missionaries and teachers from the kingdoms. Against this opposition, Fidelma and Eadulf must unite to solve one of their most complex mysteries yet

FÉILE FIDELMA 2025 UPDATE – 9 OCTOBER 2024

We have just been advised of the following by the Cashel Féile Fidelma Committee, who were putting on the event:

The Cashel Féile Fidelma Committee met on October 9 and decided not to go ahead with another Féile Fidelma next May.

Having waited until October 1 for an increase in the number of possible participants, the evidence proved otherwise.

The number was nowhere near the required threshold of expressions of interest which we decided as necessary before progressing with the event.

We regret having to make this decision but there was no alternative.

Seamus J. King,
On behalf of the Féile Fidelma Organising Committee

We at the Society are aware that there are many forces working against members, not the least of which is the sad state of the global economy.

This, to us at least, in no way indicates a decreased interest in Peter’s titular character or her adventures. It’s merely “real world” impediments keeping us from seeing each other again… for now. Never say never…

NEWEST SISTER FIDELMA MYSTERY NOW OUT (UK)!
PROPHET OF BLOOD, Headline Book Publishing, London, July 2024. Hardcover, ISBN 978 1 4722 9609 2, £22; as well as eBook ISBN 9 781 4722 9611 5 £22; and Audible downloadable (read by Caroline Lennon) ISBN 9 781 4722 9612 2 at £24.99; Severn House, USA, October 2024, ISBN Hardback 978 1 4483 1258 0, 352pp., $29.99.

Autumn, AD 672. While out walking, Abbot Brocc was shocked to encounter the sinister apparition of a young woman, cloaked entirely in grey, who foretold his impending death. Dismissing the soothsayer’s words, Brocc nevertheless felt concerned enough to ask for Sister Fidelma’s advice on the matter.

But, by the time Fidelma and her companions arrive at the remote abbey of Dair Inis, Brocc has been found dead in the abbey’s sweat house – as the mysterious prophetess had predicted.

Plunged into a world of uncertainty, where believers of the Old and New Faiths are violently opposed, Fidelma, Eadulf, and Dego embark on a journey fraught with danger, in a puzzling and perilous quest for the truth behind Brocc’s murder…?

SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE OF THE BREHON NOW OUT TO ALL SOCIETY MEMBERS!
Our 23rd year in print!! Contents of Vol. XXIII, No. 3 of The Brehon* – The Journal of The International Sister Fidelma Society – include:

  • News Round-Up
  • Latest Japanese Release
  • Prophet of Blood – A Short Review by Longtime Member Christine Grit
  • Praise from French Readers for the Latest Novel
  • Another Reprint for Peter’s Non-Fiction Ancient Celtic History
  • Who is that Knocking on my Door? – A Memoir by Peter Tremayne
  • Distinguished Founder Member of the Society
  • Continued Praise From a Germany-Based Member by Founder Member Ruairidh Muileach
  • How I Discovered the Treasure Called the “Sister Fidelma Mysteries” by Longtime Member Reidun Drange
  • Gildas’ Abbey Nowadays by Dutch Publisher and Longtime Member Hans van den Boom
  • A Problem for a Future Biographer
  • Collector’s Talk: Fidelma Spanish Editions by Jordi Serrano Martinez
  • Readerspeak
  • Editorspeak

and more…

As always, we would ask for your help in spreading word about our Society on every social media platform available. This is more important than ever, now that the wheels of the engine are finally rolling.

Not to let them fade from your memories, but we wouldn’t be doing our job it we didn’t remind you about the Society’s book publications (details elsewhere on this page), and the fact that they would make excellent gifts for the upcoming holidays season(s). Those titles may be purchased through the author’s Amazon page at amazon.com/author/davidrobertwooten.

As to renewing your membership, the quickest way is always through our payment portal at https://fidelma.square.site/.

A SPECIAL BONUS FOR FIDELMA FANS!!
As those of you who have already purchased THE SISTER FIDELMA COMPENDIUM: A Reader’s Guide to the Sister Fidelma Mysteries of Peter Tremayne will know (wait… what???… you haven’t ALL purchased it yet?… the chastising shall commence… see below for complete details), owing to the sheer length of the book, I was forced to publish this in black and white/greyscale, rather than color. In color, it would have sold for 3-4 times as much, and then NONE of you would have bought it.

All that aside, the one comment I have continued to receive is “It’s a pity we can’t see more detail in the illustration of King Colgu’s Fortress,” showing the Rock as it would most likely have stood in Fidelma’s time. Most readers of The Sister Fidelma Mysteries (though not YOU, of course) often mistakenly envision the title character residing on the Rock of Cashel as it now stands. In truth, one would need to completely raze the entire top of The Rock of all its 11th-century-forward ecclesiastical buildings and travel back several centuries to before Fidelma’s time (the 7th century) to see what was most likely built atop the plateau.

I created the conceptual layout of the Royal Fortress of King Colgú atop The Rock of Cashel, ca. 7th century, specifically for The Compendium. The structures were proposed by Peter Tremayne “from ancient Irish records, in the myths, the annals and chronicles, as well as archaeological evidence,” so you know there could be no better source. I can guarantee you not a single tour guide atop The Rock today has even the slightest clue about any of this. But YOU do.

And I have now added both a small and large poster version of the same illustration as appears in the book, in full color, through the Society’s CafePress page at https://www.cafepress.com/eclecticon/. Just as with the Map of Fidelma’s World (also on the same page), this is a high-quality print job, suitable for framing or just stick up with chewing gum (I don’t actually recommend the latter).

So, head over to the Cafepress shop to get your own copy (and no, it won’t have all the words scribbled all over it like the blurred sample shown)!

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