'See a tall man pacing the twilight beach, caught between the dying day and the incoming tide that flirst with sand, seducing, inviting, whispering tales from beyond the dark sea...' This magnificent saga of the birth of Ireland is a living portrait of the immortal Gaelic bard Amergin, whose poetic visions inspired his people to embark on one of mankind's greates adventues, an odyssey to a land at the very heart of mystery. Destiny links Amergin with the beguiling Shinan of the Tuatha de Danaan, a tribe of myth and magic whose shimmering sorcery, some say, colours the Gaelic lands still. And as the Bard, his five brothers and their warrior-mother struggle for mastery of the clans, he weaves a legend that lays bare the soul of ancient Ireland...