Books
Jaclyn Maria Fowler
Today's Rain, Tomorrow's Whiskey
After 700 years of failed Irish uprisings, Today’s Rain, Tomorrow’s Whiskey marks the twilight of British rule in Ireland. It was hastened, in part, by a man born in the southeast corner of the island: Michael Collins. A party to the 1916 Easter Rising, Michael Collins survived to become Minister of Finance for the fledgling Dáil Éireann, the renegade and revolutionary parliament in Ireland. And, as Director of Intelligence for the nascent Irish Republican Army, he built a formidable network of spies and assassins that ultimately crippled the political operation of British control in Ireland. In fact, in the wake of ongoing retribution and retaliation, Michael Collins became the most hunted man in the British Empire. Today’s Rain, Tomorrow’s Whiskey is Michael Collins’s story, the story of the fight for an Ireland free.
Jaclyn Maria Fowler
Jack The Almost True Story Of The Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires is a mythical group of Irish vigilantes transplanted to Northeastern Pennsylvania and used by the men of power—the industrialists—to temporarily halt the progress of laborers banding together for better lives. It worked, too, at least temporarily. They crushed the fledgling labor unions and brutally put down any type of insurrection or insubordination. In the end, twenty mostly innocent Irish Catholic men were hanged in what became known as a travesty of justice. And while labor eventually rose in the mining and railroad sectors of Pennsylvania, the people and places of Molly Maguire territory carry the scars of ethnic division, fomented hatred, and an overwhelming anxiety in regard to speaking truth to power.
Jack: The Almost True Story of the Molly Maguires catalogs the tragic consequences that come from demonizing and dehumanizing groups in a quest for political or fiscal power. In the case of Jack, it was the Irish immigrants of Northeastern Pennsylvania who fought for fair labor practices in the coal mining industry. While the story takes place in the late 19th century, it is a story that continues in some form even today. Yet, by knowing and understanding our collective past, we become better stewards in the fight for social justice.
Jaclyn Maria Fowler
It Is Myself That I Remake
Growing up between the west coast of Ireland and the coal regions of Pennsylvania, Sophie O’Connor’s childhood is nearly idyllic. At an early age, she is introduced to the greats of Irish literature—Yeats and Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Shaw, and Seamus Heaney, and Sophie thrives surrounded by the great myths and legends of these writers.
Just before Sophie’s sixteenth birthday, her life takes a tragic turn, seemingly imitating the stories and poems she has learned and loved. Rather than face her heartbreak, Sophie seals herself off from the world around her, allowing only the love of her father and the poetry of William Butler Yeats to break through her self-imposed exile from life. In every sense but the biological, Sophie dies at the age of sixteen even while her heart continues to beat.
As a young woman, Sophie takes a teaching position in her beloved Ireland; there, she looks for the inspiration she needs to restart her life. As many Yeats scholars are wont to do, the young woman soon finds herself sitting against the gravestone of the famous poet. In a place known for its dead, Sophie finally finds a reason to live. An unconventional story of love that crosses the veil between this life and the next, It is Myself that I Remake challenges the notion that death is ever absolute.
Jaclyn Maria Fowler
No One Radiates Love Alone
Although the author was born a skeptical seer, she accepted the words of spirit whisperers; they stepped in often to remind her of a mission she accepted in a time between lives. To find it, the author traveled the world searching for clarity. On the way she learned from the people she met: monks and movie stars, philosophers and kings, a trio of Emirati sisters, an accountant on a dusty street corner in Addis Ababa. With each place, each person, each experience, the author came closer to realizing what she had come into this life to do. After reading a book about life between lives, she traveled again to a little office in northern Colorado to find a psychospiritual counselor certified in LBL hypnosis. Through a series of regressions, the author finally found her path. It was never a physical place. Instead, she is an ambassador for The Twelve. You see . . . the spirit world has a message for us.
It is a wake-up call, a love letter, an invitation to a life filled with happiness, purpose, love. In No One Radiates Love Alone, twelve ascended masters speak through the author to offer practical, intuitive advice for making our lives more joyous, more purpose-driven. Through them, we rediscover our natural state hidden at the core of our collective soul. So while this book is the culmination of a lifelong spiritual journey for the author, it is only the beginning of a transcendent, joy-inducing vibration that will change all our lives for the better.
