We Need To Talk About Brigid

Barbara O’Meara’s cover art lights up the GPO

reystones illustrator Barbara O’Meara has been in touch, excited agus delighted about her latest Girl God Books outing.

Having just gone to print, My Name Is Brigid is being released just in time for the saint’s annual feast day on February 2nd.

Girl God Books was founded in 2011 by Trista Hendren ‘to support a necessary unraveling of the patriarchal world view of divinity‘. Just so you know.

Over to Barbara for the lowdown on My Name Is Brigid…

“As an Irish woman, with Celtic ancestry, what an honour it is to be selected as the featured artist illustrating this new book, published by the prestigious international publishing house Girl God Books and launching on 1st February 2022 to mark Brigid’s Day becoming a new public holiday in Ireland from 2023.”

The cover painting was originally featured in Herstory Ireland 2020, where it illuminated the GPO in Dublin on Brigid’s Day.

Now this and many more paintings by Barbara, a professional visual artist and writer for over two decades, have been selected for this new children’s book.

You can grab your copy of My Name Is Brigid here and find out more about Barbara O’Meara here.