Tadhg MacCrossan is the pen-name of Teresa NicanChrosain (Teresa Cross)who was born in 1958 and author of The Sacred Cauldron and the Truth about the Druids (both originally by Llewellyn, forthcoming from Runa-Raven Press). Ms. Cross was brought up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a transgender woman having been born male. As a child in the 1960s she lived in Calgary,Alberta until she was five years old when she moved to New Orleans. Growing up her father (a geologist and ancient history lover) taught her about her Irish and Celtic heritage. "I never really paid much attention to being of Irish and of Celtic descent until I went to college." [MacCrossan is a descendent of the Mac an Chrosains, O'Connors and O'Fogartys of Ireland on her father's side and of the MacGregors,Stewarts and Campbells of Scotland on her mother's side.] 

It was in the late 1970s, that she was introduced to the "Irish Literary Renaissance" and Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce that she became interested in the mythology of the Celtic peoples. "I was also listening to Irish music when I was a teen in the Dallas area." MacCrossan was one of the members of the founding board of the Southwest Celtic Music Association in the early 1980s. 

In the early 1980s, MacCrossan was associated with Dianic Wiccans in the Dallas - Fort Worth area. Disappointed with Wicca, she was curious to learn about the beliefs of her Celtic ancestors. "This is when I turned to reading books like Stuart Piggott's The Druids (1968). In 1982, she met with Mark Roberts but his Masonic style Druidism did not appeal to her. While attending University of Texas in Dallas, she took courses in Linguistics and Mythology toward her B.A. in English. She began her lifelong study of Indo-European comparative mythology. She studied Philosophy of Religion under Sid Chapman,PhD and various courses under Robert W Corrigan ( a colleague of the great Mircea Eliade. She also studied under Frederick Turner. She kept a correspondence with Emmon Bodfish in the 1980s. By the late 1980s, MacCrossan met Stephen Edred Flowers, PhD (Edred Thorsson) who talked her into writing The controversial book The Sacred Cauldron. It was the first Celtic Reconstructionist book to hit the popular market and to point out the Indo-European origins of Celtic pre-Christian religion. Sam Wenger of Three Geese in Flight (Celtic bookshop in Bearsville,NY) pointed out that "it was ahead of its time." 

In the early 1990s, MacCrossan taught courses in Celtic Mythology (1994 at Richland College) and at venues such as The Constellation and Overtones. She has known Germanicists such as Stephen Flowers, PhD, Kveldulf Gundarsson and James Chisholm. She has also talked to such personalities as Seamas Tansey and the American writer Robert Anton Wilson.

Indeed, THE SACRED CAULDRON: Secrets of the Druids is now in the process of being republished by Runa-Raven Press (Smithville, Texas). The new edition will have some minor changes in text,illustration and cover. Tadhg MacCrossan (Teresa) now lives in Fort Worth with her toy poodle. She is a member of the Kredenn Geltiek Hollvedel, Integrated Celtic Reconstructionists and is a student of the Vedic and Vedantic literature. MacCrossan is also currently collaborating on a book with Belenios Ategnatos which is on the subject of the deeper philosophy of the Irish tradition as compared with Vedic Hindu tradition and their common Indo-European background.

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