Patrick Tooban

The Oak and the Order is a work of historical fiction set in Iron Age Ireland, where ritual, lineage, and land shape the lives of those who inherit them. The story follows Trad, a boy drawn toward the Order of the Oak - a learned and powerful body whose influence reaches into kingship and belief. As elders weigh his promise and his mother secures the future of her people, an older memory surfaces: a sacred stone hidden long before his time, binding past and present in quiet, consequential ways.
Written with restraint and historical attentiveness, The Oak and the Order stands alone while forming part of the wider Calgach Scéla cycle, a sequence of stories rooted in Irish tradition and deep time.