Mithim Protects Gaelic Knowledge Through Cromwellian Danger
Set in Cromwellian Wexford, this historical novel follows Mithim as healing knowledge, Gaelic learning and family secrets become matters of survival. The appeal is its rootedness: Irish history feels immediate, dangerous and intimate through one woman’s effort to protect what conquest threatens.
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Mithim Protects Gaelic Knowledge Through Cromwellian Danger
Set in Cromwellian Wexford, this historical novel follows Mithim as healing knowledge, Gaelic learning and family secrets become matters of survival. The appeal is its rootedness: Irish history feels immediate, dangerous and intimate through one woman’s effort to protect what conquest threatens.
- Book Synopsis
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Wexford, 1657. Ireland is on its knees. Eight years after Cromwell's army burned Killenea Castle to the ground, Mithim McMurrough - daughter of a Gaelic lord, healer and last keeper of her family's secrets - is living alone and in hiding in the depths of a Wexford forest. The soldiers are moving closer. And the past is closing in faster still. Fierce, lyrical and steeped in Irish mythology, the Celtic tree calendar and the forgotten wisdom of the Gaelic healing women, Mithim gives voice to a noblewoman who refused to disappear quietly into the wreckage of conquest - who carried her people's knowledge into the dark, and who will risk everything to find out who survived. Meet the bould Mithim - the Irish woman history forgot.
Cover Art by Adrian Robb
Ideal for readers who:
- Reach for immersive Irish historical fiction deeply rooted in Gaelic traditions and rich mythology.
- Want to follow Mithim McMurrough as enemy soldiers close in on her quiet forest refuge.
- Are drawn to 1657 Wexford, a setting where traditional healing, family secrets and survival are beautifully intertwined.
- Savour lyrical, highly atmospheric novels filled with local folklore, quiet resistance and emotional force.
- About The Author
- Carina McNally is a freelance journalist, playwright, historian and tour guide based on the Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork. Her short stories have appeared in Cyphers Literary Magazine and Woman's Way. Mithim is her debut historical novel.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781917453639
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Mercier Press, (15 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 384
- Weight
- 415 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 215 x 135 mm
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