![]() After an arduous trip, they reach a rocky spire jutting out of the Atlantic Ocean. In Haven, a pious and holier-than-thou sage named Artt sets off in a boat from an Irish monastery with two companions: Trian, a compassionate but inexperienced monk, and Cormac, a recent convert to Christianity who can build pretty much anything. “By the end of the boat ride, I had the entire story in my head,” Donoghue says in an interview about Haven from Toronto, where she was attending the film festival premiere of The Wonder. ![]() The monks left in the 13th century, but eight centuries later it captivated the bestselling author of the hit novel, movie and play, Room, who has written several historical novels set in Ireland, including The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder and her latest book, Haven. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and home to tens of thousands of breeding seabirds. ![]() ![]() The jagged pyramid of rock looks like an inhospitable place for humans, and yet, in the name of God, Irish monks built beehive-shaped huts and a church on its precipitous terrain in the sixth century. On a pre-pandemic vacation to Ireland, friends took Emma Donoghue and her family out in a boat off the coast of County Kerry, where she saw Skellig Michael for the first time. ![]()
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