![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Great Skellig, also known as Skellig Michael, is a real place, and the remains of an ancient monastery rest on a plateau high above the sea. With few belongings they travel southwest along the river and out into the open Atlantic Ocean, where they find Great Skellig, a rocky island full of crags and cliffs.ĭonoghue has based her novel on historical and geographical facts. He chooses Cormac, an old monk with abundant practical skills, and a young monk named Trian to aid him in his search. A man named Artt, a renowned visitor to a monastery on the mainland, claims to have had a dream in which he and two followers embark upon a journey in a small boat down the river to the sea and there discover an isolated island they can dedicate to the Lord. It is in the nature of a quest, a hero’s journey undertaken by three monks in the seventh century in Ireland. Haven is a unique and extraordinary book. ![]()
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