The sky is falling on our heads
Subtitle: a journey to the bottom of the Celtic fringe
By: Rob Penn.
Publisher: Sceptre; Hodder Hb
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Penn, Rob -- Travel -- Great Britain.; Penn, Rob -- Travel -- Ireland.; Celts -- Great Britain.; Celts -- France -- Brittany.; Civilization, Celtic.; Bards and bardism.; Celts -- Ireland.; Great Britain -- Ethnic relations.; Ireland -- Ethnic relations.
Description: "What does it mean to be a Celt today? Am I one? And, quite frankly do I want to be a hairy, smelly hard-drinking, druid-worshipping Celt anyway?" "These are the three questions that are troubling Rob Penn, a Manxman with an identity crisis, as he sets off on a journey through Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, to the bottom of the Celtic Fringe." "Rather that be a tourist, Rob travels as a bard, writing and performing his won poems in pubs and at inter-Celtic festivals. It is a mission full of pitfalls: the modern Celts have a profound knowledge of poetry. Will they be able to spot a fake poet and what will happen when the do?" "The Sky Is Falling On Our Heads is a captivating romp through a largely unfamiliar - and often bizarre - cultural landscape. As he navigates the resurgence of the modern Celtic identity. Rob Penn succeeds in separating fact from myth in a hilarious portrait of a people who sense their time has come again."--BOOK JACKET.