Folklore Fragments Podcast - Episode 22: Invisible Worlds With Eddie Lenihan
Our lives are built on the stories we tell. At both an individual and a communal level, they orient and mould us, shaping our perspectives and outlining our reality. In an age where life can seem increasingly fettered by rules and regulations, where communication is drowned by endless jargon and noise demanding our attention, where the past is heaved overboard in order that we might more quickly race blindly towards the future, where places become zones, where endless change is automatically equated with progress, and where the sacred is replaced by the material, the stories we tell ourselves modernity seem increasingly to offer little by way of consolation, enchantment, wonder or joy.
With this in mind, and in search of alternate perspectives for episode 22 of Folklore Fragments / Blúiríní Béaloidis, I'm setting off from the National Folklore Collection, driving across Ireland to the village of Crusheen near Ireland's western coast, where I have arranged to meet a man who has been described as a ‘national treasure’, a ‘master storyteller’ and an ‘inspired performer’.
Eddie Lenihan is an author and storyteller who has been collecting traditional stories and customs from an older generation for over 40 years. His 2003 book, Meeting the Other Crowd has been translated into many languages, and is dedicated by Eddie to ‘all those tellers now gone whose voices are not forgotten and to those still with us whose knowledge is more indispensable than ever’. As usual, throughout this episode you’ll hear a mixture of conversation along with original archival field recordings from the National Folklore Collection concerning the topics under discussion. For more information regarding these excerpts, see below.
To learn more about Eddie, and to support his valuable work, please visit eddielenihan.weebly.com/
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Yes, Eddie Lenihan is an international treasure and the best of the best storytellers.
Thank you to everyone involved in producing these videos , these types of recordings are priceless.
I have always been drawn to Irish folklore and music and stories like these are marvelous to find, real gems of culture. I'm am grateful to be able to still hear tales like these in my own time and in a place like America, where we have so little knowledge of the folklore before the colonial invasion of the native peoples. To get to hear these stories in the voices of the tellers is a fine grand thing!
This is great. Much respect to the elders, such as this fellow, who have worked so diligently to gather old stories and traditions.
Eddie is a living treasure. Thanks for the podcast!
Oh how I love to see new videos with the great legend Eddie! I have said it before but I could sit for months straight and listen to his story’s of corse that is of that was possible😊 Great work
Enjoyed this very much. A glimpse into an Ireland sadly almost forgotten now. Fair play to Eddie for keeping these stories alive.
yes Growing up in Newfoundland i can relate to Irish folklore, when Irish settlers came here to settle, they brought their stories & still practiced safety to keep them from harm or not to upset the little people, there were fairy paths, when they went berry picking they carried something red or wore some garment inside out so they would not be led away until lost by the fairies, & when a newborn had to be left alone for some reason a piece of bread was placed in it"s crib so the fairies would not take the child & leave a changeling in it"s place, Kids were told to stay away from holes in the ground more so if the hole was under a tree trunk that was a sure sign of fairy hole, & if one should see a fairy you must pretend you have never seen it or you could get what was called fairy struck, that give you lost of memory, Then there were stories where more so kids that got lost & the fairies stayed with them keeping them warm during the night until they were found
Superb.. so interesting ❤
Thank you for this discussion, highly insightful and helpful for our ongoing navigation here.
I was very fortunate to hear my grandfather and grandmother telling such stories of curses being put on people's land ,like gone off meat and eggs etc etc all this old knowledge and beliefs is being lost amazing stories and I know to this day I won't mess with forts and fairy bushes
@h.m.mcgreevy7787
Жыл бұрын
When elders die, so goes a library of history... ☘️💜☘️ Or something like that! ☘️🙃☘️
@LUKERs1196
11 ай бұрын
It's out business to carry on the stories they had
What a treasure trove ☘️
A great, great Irishman.
It is a pleasure to hear these accounts..and you can be sure that those who pride themselves on their extreme science and modernity,are in for a not so pleasant surprise from those they scoff at and those much older than they! Thank you for providing this gift to those near you and us that are far away in miles but close in heart,mind,and soul!☘🐦💖
Loved this, unreal! Well done all, brings me back to my early days as a child.
There's a pathway in the Burren I visit now and again and I suggested to a few sceptics go it alone on a calm dry night. ... Nobody's willing to do it.....weak men sicken me 🤣👍
@theovansteijn1135
2 жыл бұрын
I,m not a sceptic but curious. What will happen if I do this with a clear consious? I never mock these stories or laugh it away.
Needs playlist amazing 👍
Struggling to hear. Please work on sound. I love this man.
Please put in a playlist
From what I've read the fairies with wings are just an art mechanism to designate them as such just like angels with wings or Saints with halos. It's more of just a visual cue for the viewer to understand that that is what it is...?
You can call to me Mr Eddie lenihan
Is that the whitethorn in the photo?
I enjoyed this but your a bit soft spoken it's hard to hear you.
when irish folks say "a bush" does this word mean the same as it does in america like a shrub... or does a bush also mean other plants like trees or weeds? MAIN TAKEAWAY don't ever cut a bush in a fort good gracious.. Im like- what about a tree, or pull a weed or pick a flower??? I bet it means all those plants there huh?
@theobaldwolfetone98
Жыл бұрын
Silence ignorant America
"we've been snowed under by this bland shit." totally!
Japanese folklore is not pretty either, they would understand. I believe they share the notion of taking a bite with you when crossing a famine haunted area, too. I
@gillianshimwell4984
3 жыл бұрын
@@danbreen1916 why?