Malachas Ivernus
Our founder and our guide, Malachas Ivernus is the Editor-in-Chief of The Hollow Behind the Hearthstone. He has been many things, had many incarnations: a spoiled priest, a disgraced academic, a poète maudit, a pale, perverted youth long led astray. His studies took him to seminaries and colleges on the Continent, though he was born in Ireland. He studied Theology and Philology, Philosophy and Metaphysics. His thesis was blacklisted by the Vatican, and published by a radical small press of decadents and apostates.
He has taught in hedge-schools and parish halls, and published anonymous tracts and broadsides, as well as scholarly articles and several books on the Hermetic Arts and the History of Religion. He is a member of the Rosicrucian Order and the Collège Invisible, and was Arch-Druid of Comhaltas na bhFia Bairr for a number of years. Currently, he is a professor emeritus at the Université de Paris-Nouvelle Athènes, and he leads a research group in Esotericism.