"How a high born Irish prince in the 6th century, who bid fair to become the High Lord, deliberately turned his back on that barbarous splendour, and instead sought solitude and poverty on a bleak Atlantic-beaten rock, s the tehm of the play. It is performed in a series of swift fragments; in the end the imagination delights to put them together in a harmonious whole." George MacKay Brown
"The subject is at once extensive and complex, yet the play manages - by its very simplicity - to convey a true feeling of the conflict between Christian monk and pagan Druid, the man of peace and the man of war". Glasgow Herald
"It is without doubt the songs of Columba which are its main attraction. By turns touching, amusing and moving they are without exception elegant and strong... a haunting beauty..." Isis, Oxford University Magazine
"a truly Celtic mixture of action, mysticism, humour and music..." Scottish Catholic Observer
