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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101 – Episode CI – King O’Toole’s Goose
In episode 101, Kevin returns to his home county of Wicklow, for a story about a local chieftain, who, in old age, adopts an unusual pet. But when the companion grows old like her master, the two must seek the help of the namesake of your Fireside Bard: K...
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100 – Episode C – Conn of the Hundred Battles
The 100th episode of Fireside! Appropriately; Kevin of the Hundred Episodes tells of Conn of the Hundred Battles. He also discusses the journey of the podcast up to ...
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Episode XCIX – Ragnarok: The Doom of the Gods
Episode 99 - The epic finale of Norse Mythology. The doom of the Gods. Kevin tells how it happened. Or how it will happen. Has it happened yet?
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Episode XCVIII – Ragnorak: The Death of Baldr
Episode 98 - Norse Mythology is unique in that it has a beginning...and a definitive end. In this episode Kevin builds the tower of cards that would collapse with th...
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Episode XCVII – FIonn MacCumhaill in the Old Man’s Hourse
Episode 97 - Kevin returns to the familiar territory of the leader of the Fianna; Fionn Mac Cumhaill - in a tale which grew from Norse Mytholgy.
Fionn and his hu...
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Episode XCVI – Fireside of Horror II
Episode 96 is The second Halloween special of Fireside; celebrating the gothic and the ghoulish in Irish literature, poetry and song.
Kevin reads the eerie balla...
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