Dan Mac Ille Riabhaich (McElreavy) is a descendent of the Clann Ille Riabhaic: a Sept of Hereditary Bards from the old Gaelic system. They carried the history, lore, and laws of the people and of the land from the prehistoric era of the druids all the way down through the seventeenth century when the old system was broken. Yet deep and enduring are the roots of oak. Not all was lost.

  As is tradition, Dan Mac weaves modern tales with remnants of the ancient. He is a carpenter, a teacher, a woodsman, a peace warrior, a poet, and a practicing Shamagian—which by his own definition means: a translator of the divine imagination.

  His life long passion for the wild led him to study Tracking and Wilderness Survival with Tom Brown in 1985. Today he teaches wilderness awareness, primitive survival, woodcraft, and woods lore to small folk and large. With the aid of Vermont College he is studying the evolution of literature: from Tracks, Tree Letters, and Taliesin, to Tolstoy, Tolkein and...

  He lives with his wife and clann in Temple, NH.