Kenneth Milne

Dove of White Flame

Fiction

“As Stella Durand implies, tradition sometimes embellishes verifiable fact; yet there is a sense in which ‘tradition’ becomes part of history. No fewer than thirty-five such saints are accorded a place in the Church of Ireland’s Book of Common Prayer (2004), the ‘three patrons of Ireland,’ Patrick, Brigid, and Columba pre-eminent among them, and it is timely that Columba is the subject of this presentation of the man as well as the saint.”