The Fifth Féile Fidelma, 2014

The Celebration of Ireland’s International bestselling historical crime mystery series The Sister Fidelma Series is taking place at Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland, from Friday, September 12, to Sunday, September 14, 2014. There are now twenty-five in the series which have been published in 18 languages. They are mainly set in 7th Century Ireland where the heroine is investigator Fidelma, sister of King Colgú of Munster. With her companion, a Saxon, Brother Eadulf, she is an advocate of the Brehon Laws of ancient Ireland.

The author of the Sister Fidelma series is Peter Tremayne the pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis. Under his own name he has published 34 books covering many aspects of Celtic history and culture. As Peter Tremayne, he has also published over 50 novels and over 90 short stories. Amongst his many international fans are those from the Celtic nations. His Sister Fidelma stories have been published in a number of Celtic languages. Those in Breton are Koulm ar Marv (The Dove of Death) and Absolvenn dre Vuntr (Absolution by Murder). Later this year a further book in Breton Kegid d’ar Gousperoú (Hemlock at Vespers) will be published by ABER.  

Peter has been active in the pan-Celtic movement and served in various offices of The Celtic League at branch level and from 1988-1990 was elected convenor (chairman) of The Celtic League. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was inaugurated a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd mainly for his ground breaking work The Cornish Language and its Literature (Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1974) which was used for many years as a text book for the Cornish Language Board.  He took the Bardic name of Gwas-an-Geltyon (Servant of the Celts). In 1988 he was made in Honorary Life President of the Scottish 1820 Society, a society dedicated to researching and commemorating Scotland’s last major uprising. Peter and the journalist, author and activist Seumas Mac a' Ghobhainn (1930-1987) wrote the only definitive account of the uprising first published in 1970. In 2002 Peter was awarded an Honorary Life membership of the Irish Literary Society founded in 1892 (whose president was then Nobel Literary Laureate Seamus Heaney).

The Fifth Féile Fidelma, 2014 has been organised by the International Sister Fidelma Society and details of registration are on their press release, which can be downloaded here.