The March 2003 issue
The relaunch issue of March 2003, Volume 5, Number 1. Its centrepiece was a long feature on the novelist Morgan Llywelyn, with two interviews and three reviews, plus the returning columnists and a new agony aunt.
Inside Outsider: ... times there were before and new voices at the door
Opening the March 2003 relaunch, Hugh Dougherty remembers the copy editor and the political writer who did not live to see An Scáthán return.
Morgan Llywelyn
The front page of the Celtic Mirror's 2003 Morgan Llywelyn feature, restored, with a reader's guide to the novels that came before and after it.
Morgan Llywelyn captures spirit of Easter Uprising in epic novel
Thomas Larkin's advance review of 1916, the Morgan Llywelyn novel that walks a Titanic survivor from a Kerry farm into the Easter Rising.
Morgan Llywelyn talks, with pride, of 'Lions'
Over tea in New York, Morgan Llywelyn explained why Pride of Lions is not a sequel, and why Lion of Ireland must be filmed in Ireland.
Morgan's magnificence proven again: New title set in post-Boru Ireland
Christine Goldbeck's advance review of Pride of Lions, Morgan Llywelyn's novel of Brian Boru's son Donough in the years after Clontarf.
Symons Says: Growing up mixed up
Tommy Symons on a Pennsylvania coal-country boyhood, a Welsh Methodist father, a grandfather from Tipperary, and learning to be Irish from Bing Crosby.
Visiting Morgan Llywelyn's World: Famed Irish author discusses her writings during exclusive interview
Over lunch in Philadelphia, Morgan Llywelyn explained why she told the Easter Rising through a fictional Titanic survivor, and promised two sequels.
What Auntie Maudie has to say
A jailbird suitor, a husband at clogging class, a town drunk and a 45-year-old with cold feet: the Celtic Mirror's semi-fictitious Irish auntie answers them all.
Writer weaves myth and truth into adventurous tales of ancient Erin
Christine Goldbeck on Morgan Llywelyn's Finn Mac Cool and Bard, two novels that treat Irish legend as the record of real people.