The Wind Bloweth

On his fourteenth birthday, Shane Campbell abandons his schoolbooks for the mountains above the Antrim glens. What begins as a day of freedom becomes something far deeper: a journey into the wild heart of Ireland itself, where legend still breathes alongside the living. Donn Byrne captures that precise moment when childhood begins to crack open, when a boy suddenly sees the world with adult eyes. Shane climbs through heather and mist, hearing in the wind the voices of his poetic father and the ancient stories of the land. Lost islands surface in his imagination. The mountains hold the memory of historical figures, and the line between myth and reality grows deliciously thin. This is a book about inheritance not in wealth or land, but in stories. What we carry from those who came before us. What it means to belong to a place, to a people, to a tradition of wonder. The wind blows through these pages like a living thing, and Byrne writes with the kind of love for Ireland that only an exile can feel.