Fireside
Kevin C. Olohan is your host and Fireside Bard. Every Wednesday, Kevin takes a story from Folklore or Mythology, gives it a fresh retelling, and discusses the story itself and the craft, culture and history of Storytelling.- Kevin C. Olohan
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Samhain: Fireside of Horror VI – The Unquiet Dead
Episode 268: The Halloween Special! Kevin discusses Lady Gregory and her written accounts of The Unquiet Dead: real stories from real Irish people of their dealings with the dead and the other side...this is where folklore comes from. A rumour, a story...
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Fireside Bonus: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) – Most Faithful, Most Bizarre
Francis Ford Coppola titled his film Bram Stoker's Dracula, strongly implying it would be the most faithful adaptation of the novel. This movie is not just a lov...
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Samhain: The Sea's Dead
Episode 267: It's a particularly stormy summer on Achill Island. A shipwreck has made a widow, an orphan or a bereaved parent of every family. The sea always aven...
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Fireside Bonus: Dracula 1958 – Lee and Cushing, Scary or Seductive?
Hammer Films' Dracula 1958 brought Stoker's novel to the big screen in colour for the first time. It was the first of Christopher Lee's TEN portrayals of the char...
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Fireside Bonus: Dracula 1931 – Creature to Cultural Icon
Tod Browning's 1931 film adaptation of Dracula took Stoker's novel and created a landmark work that still casts a long shadow across cinema, horror, and Halloween...
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The Watcher of the Dead
Episode 266: Tim McGowan was buried at Gort na Marbh, the Field of the Dead. But in the last year of his life, Tim spent every single night at the graveyard. What...
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