Longing

Stories tagged Longing:

• The Selkie Bride of Donegal Aug 20, 2025

  

  On the storm-lashed coast of County Donegal, where the Atlantic hurls itself endlessly against granite cliffs and the wind carries the ancient songs of the sea, there stands a cottage whose empty windows look out over waters that hold both beauty and sorrow. This was once the home of Ruairí MacSweeny and his selkie bride, whose story has become a legend whispered along the western shores—a tale of love and captivity, of freedom lost and the price that both captor and captive must pay when the bonds of the heart become chains of possession.

• The Mermaid of Gollerus Aug 19, 2025

  

  On the wild coast of County Kerry, where the Atlantic waves crash endlessly against the towering cliffs of Gollerus and the spray rises like silver smoke in the morning light, there lived a young fisherman named Tomás Fitzgerald whose life was forever changed by an encounter with one of the sea’s most mysterious children. His story is one of love that transcended the boundaries between land and sea, and of the heart-breaking choices that sometimes must be made when two worlds collide.