The Spanking Goddess & Other Discarded Tales will be published by New Island Books. Spring 2027. Dublin Launch, March 16th at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art).
Irish myths for the 21st century, full of bad-ass deities, feral fighters, unorthodox sex, hairy bodies and goddess-on-goddess battles.
In The Spanking Goddess & Other Discarded Tales, Clare Murphy exhumes the Celtic canon to bring the wild stories that never made the cut, back into the light. A shapeshifter spanks her opponent, twelve fathers raise a girl to be a Fianna captain, a queen balances on the point of a spear, a man uses music and sex to heal a broken soul, heroes are defeated by mother-daughter warriors and a woman is the first person to settle Ireland.
These are not our regular myths. Rather they are subversive tales, not for the fainthearted and definitely for grownups.
As soon as we have pre-order dates we’ll link to it right here (probably November)
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Book Launch dates:
Dublin March 16th 2027, IMMA
Bristol Early April 2027 venue TBD
USA Oct 2027 venue TBD
