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I grew up in the west of ireland. my storytellings come from that ancient oral Gaelic tradition...I tell in both Irish and English and have a good stock of tales I translated from the telling of Stiofan O' hEillire (Stephen Hillary) who gave the Irish folklore commision over 150 tales, which is considered to be one of the largest and best collections in Western Europe. I also write stories. I have a spoken word CD call The West: Stories from Ireland, which has irish traditional music accompaniment. I am writing a book on the cultural history of my area, Doolin in County Clare and it has a chapter on the storytelling tradition and the storytelling sessions which died out when the language changed from Irish to English in the late forties. When I was growing up in the 1960's, some of the stories had crossed the language frontier and into English and so the art was alive, but the stock of stories was decimated. Some of the old people could recite bits and piece of the International Voyage tales in Irish and it was one of the most beautiful things I ever heard. I don't really tell stories as a profession, it's rather part of my living culture. My son is also a storyteller and a musician and performs in both language in a much more hip and contemporary way than I'd tell around the fire to a group of friends at a house dance.

I look forward to knowing you all.

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http://tintaun.com

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At 11:21am on October 20, 2009, Andy Davis said…: Hi Eddie! Have you been able to give any thought to my earlier query regarding opportunities to swap tales while in Clare?

At 5:15am on September 9, 2009, Tony Cuckson said…: Hi Eddie,

Greetings from a fellow Irish storyteller. So you are in Clare. Nearly ended up there but thats another story. Came to Leitrim via way of a calling from W. B. Yeats and the Isle of Innisfree. Still finding peace comes dropping slow and the way to Tir na Nog at the deep hearts core. Blessings Tony

At 7:37am on November 7, 2008, Dale Jarvis said…: Hi there! I am spreading the word about the new World Storytelling Day group:
http://professionalstoryteller.ning.com/group/worldstorytellingday

If you know of any storytelling events happening near you in March, let me know, and make sure to add them to the World Storytelling Day event list.

Dale

At 1:44pm on October 2, 2008, Nathalie Jendly said…: Hello Eddie,
well welcome!
it will be between the 1st to the 9th of August 09.
probably in the french part of Switzerland.
Of course I will let you know.
here is the site of http://www.swisstales.ch organising together with some storytellers from Europe next meeting of the European Federation for STorytelling.
Have a wonderful day
and many thanks for your message
Nathalie

At 7:00pm on September 22, 2008, Buck P Creacy said…: Well Eddie

Those would be a fine array of large and small mouth bass... there might be a catfish in there too... My memory is poor when it comes to fishing... volume is worst issue, followed closely behind by species and the fight involved in hauling them in... but you can see they's a mess a fish there for sure.

Buck

At 4:28pm on September 22, 2008, Yvonne Healy said…: 'ta! Increasingly US tellers perform @ North American Fringes. Some storytelling events offer Fringes (Northlands & NSN). There's a Fringe group here on profstoryteller. Your story: super! Loved the growing sense of madness whirling as situation heated up. My granny smoked Woodbines; she'd send me down the road to buy 1 at a time. Also loved the youtube intro to your son's work! Definitely energetic.

At 3:51pm on September 22, 2008, Buck P Creacy said…: Ah that is lovely... and done right well.

At 12:00pm on September 20, 2008, Emma Alexander Arthur said…: Hello Eddie and welcome to the Celtic Storytellers discussion group. I found your profile very interesting so checked out your website. Will have to get a hold of 'Out of the Blue'. I've tended to focus on Scottish Celtic stories.

At 8:12am on September 20, 2008, Yvonne Healy said…: May you have 1000 plus 1! I gather you hope we will talk again (me too) but my Irish predates my ability to read in either English or Irish, so the rest is lost. Thanks for your observation re" young tellers being more energetic. That's what I saw wt some young ones in Dublin & Cork but didn't know it happened elsewhere. Globalization affecting style perhaps. Much interested in your book; will go to your site. Will listen to your story & search for fada when my PC stops acting up. Best of luck.

At 10:39pm on September 19, 2008, Debra Olson-Tolar said…: Hi Eddie,
Just listened to your story. Wonderfully entertaining. Thank you for posting it!
Debra