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Connaught (Connie) Marshner is an author and advocate for education reform.

 

Her most recent book is Monastery and High Cross: the Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity, which grew out of research for her Master's Degree dissertation in Gaelic Literature at University College Cork.

 

She lives in Front Royal, Virginia, with her husband, William, a founding faculty member of Christendom College.  She leads the Shenandoah Gaeltacht, which works to preserve the Irish language and authentic Irish culture.