I Am of Irelaunde: A Novel of Patrick and Osian

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Patrick of Ireland has been enshrined in myth and history as a benign and beloved figure, a native Irish miracle worker who drove both the snakes and the Druids from his homeland and gently issued in the age of Christianity.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Magonus Succatus Patricius ("Paidrig") was of Roman heritage; captured into slavery in Ireland at the age of sixteen, he escaped at the age of twenty-two.

I Am of Irelaunde takes the forty-year-old Paidrig back to the site of his shame.

He is full of anger, and is determined to bring Christianity to Ireland, even if he has to beat it into the "lazy, loathesome" Irish.

But something happens to change Paidrig.

Something shrouded in mystery and wonder.