Táim Gan Ainm (I Am Without Name)

The big rock in the mouth of the caves at Cúas Pier traveling from my Mum’s in Eyeries along the scenic coastal route to Ardgroom sang to me of Murúcha (Mermaids, Merrows, Murroughs).

This was the initial beginnings in the unfolding of a creative and explorative journeying that led to the creation of Táim Gan Ainm. Through my enquiry into myth and story and with trust, surrender and a wholehearted committment to being open to what was asking to be told Táim Gan Ainm has personal yet universal themes of loss reclamation and transformation.

This story generously revealed to me the absence of an important word in different languages across the globe, a word that identifies a person with the life experience of being a parent whose child/ren have died. In the English language we have a word for a child whose parent/s have died, a wife who’s husband has died and a husband who’s wife has died but there is no word for a parent who’s child has died.

I would like to initiate the beginnings of a conversation that explores what this word will be. I would like this word to be rooted in and connected to the words Mother, Father, eternal and love.