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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Episode XIV : The Landing of the Gael
This week on Fireside is the final story of the Irish Mythological Cycle: The Landing of the Gael. This is the tale of the mortal men who would arrive on the shores of Ireland, to overthrow the Tuatha Dé Danann. We also finally meet Ériu, Fodhla and Ba...
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Episode XIII: The Hunchback of Knockgrafton
On unlucky episode 13 of Fireside, Kevin tells the folk tale of a change in fortune for a young hunchback boy, who gets mixed up with the other folk. There's some...
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Episode XII: The Children of Lir
This week on Fireside is the most famous tale from the Mythological Cycle, and probably the most famous Irish myth of all time: The Children of Lir.
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Episode XI: The Tobacco Quest
This week on Fireside, we hear a fairy story of a tobacco obsessed farmer who goes on a journey to find his precious smoke. A journey that takes him all the way t...
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Episode X: The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh
The climax of the Irish Mythological Cycle. This week on Fireside, Kevin gives the epic conclusion to the Lugh and Bres Saga, in which the Tuatha Dé Danann, face ...
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Episode IX: The Soul Cages
This week on Fireside, Kevin tells the story of a fisherman’s obsessive pursuit of a merrow, and of what he finds when he is invited into that merrow’s home, at t...
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