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We Are The Land is an exploration of Ireland--its ancient history, DNA, and culture through the adventurous search of four sisters for their Irish ancestry. The author's interest in how ancient languages evolved and migrated leads readers through the heart of Ireland to the modern revolution of the ancestral DNA of the Irish people. The author investigates the parallels between mythology, anthropology, DNA, and climate to lead the reader to a broader understanding of Ireland, its people, and the western world. This is a must read for travelers to Ireland who want to know...Who are the Celts? Who are the Scotch-Irish or Ulster Scots? Where did red hair come from? What was the land like at the dawn of modern humans? What were the origins of Irish hospitality, music, and scintillating wit? Who built the megaliths such as Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth? What was the ""potato famine""? The book explores these and other questions for those of us with Irish heritage, and others, who wish to understand before we visit Ireland.

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Most Americans come home from Ireland with a tweedy cap, a shawl or shillelagh, tales of kissing the Blarney Stone and pub crawls in Dublin; or talk of the priest in the Burren whose earlobes or bald head put ye in mind of your late Uncle Jimmy. Leslie Lee embarks with a scholar's curiosity about attachments and connections, origins and destinations and returns with a deeper understanding of herself, her sisters, her far flung, extended family and the species at large, of the way history and anthropology, geography and genealogy, fantasy and myth comingle to bring the larger human narrative to bear on we Irish and Americans, we humans, one and all, each and every. Well worth the journey, well worth the read! Thomas Lynch Thomas Lynch, award-winning author, American poet, essayist and undertaker. Author of Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans, and National Book Award Finalist for The Undertaking I was completely charmed by this insightful and heartfelt portrait of Ireland. Leslie Lee's descriptions of the people she met and the places she visited are so well written, so immediate, that I felt like I was there. And her drawings and sketches are nothing short of delightful. Highly recommended! Jerry Dennis, author of The Living Great Lakes, and many other books, Michigan Author Award Leslie Lee knows that poetry is the eternal liturgy of the human soul. She pulls on the drawstrings of her own poetry to find the bliss of home. So, travel with her, drink with her, and laugh with her, reading her brave book ""Ireland, We Are The Land"". That treasure she has found is Ireland, the ancient holy isle of saints and scholars. Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Most Americans come home from Ireland with a tweedy cap, a shawl or shillelagh, tales of kissing the Blarney Stone and pub crawls in Dublin; or talk of the priest in the Burren whose earlobes or bald head put ye in mind of your late Uncle Jimmy. Leslie Lee embarks with a scholar's curiosity about attachments and connections, origins and destinations and returns with a deeper understanding of herself, her sisters, her far flung, extended family and the species at large, of the way history and anthropology, geography and genealogy, fantasy and myth comingle to bring the larger human narrative to bear on we Irish and Americans, we humans, one and all, each and every. Well worth the journey, well worth the read! Thomas Lynch Thomas Lynch, award-winning author, American poet, essayist and undertaker. Author of Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans, and National Book Award Finalist for The Undertaking I was completely charmed by this insightful and heartfelt portrait of Ireland. Leslie Lee's descriptions of the people she met and the places she visited are so well written, so immediate, that I felt like I was there. And her drawings and sketches are nothing short of delightful. Highly recommended! Jerry Dennis, author of The Living Great Lakes, and many other books, Michigan Author Award Leslie Lee knows that poetry is the eternal liturgy of the human soul. She pulls on the drawstrings of her own poetry to find the bliss of home. So, travel with her, drink with her, and laugh with her, reading her brave book Ireland, We Are The Land. That treasure she has found is Ireland, the ancient holy isle of saints and scholars. Diana Beresford-Kroeger

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