Tell Me A Story Podcast with Eddie Lenihan

Tell Me A Story Podcast with Eddie Lenihan

"Eddie's stories are not for the faint-hearted, but then good stories never are."
RTE Guide

Eddie Lenihan is Ireland’s most well known storytellers. He has been telling tales now for 35 years. As a cultural preservationist, Eddie has amassed the largest collection of folk stories and tales in Ireland. His dedication to the tradition has seen him collect and compile stories from all across the country, particularly those that deal with the themes of the supernatural, fairies, and mythological heroes.

Each month, Eddie shares Irish wisdom and stories from the past on the Tell Me A Story with Eddie Lenihan Podcast, recorded from his home in Co. Clare. The series is produced by Philip Murphy and John Lillis, and features music by Clare Sands.

Episode 29 : Irish Wakes

Episode 29 : Irish Wakes

Episode 26 - The Banshee

Episode 26 - The Banshee

Episode 25 : Graveyards

Episode 25 : Graveyards

Episode 21 : Holy Wells

Episode 21 : Holy Wells

Episode 19 : Trades Part 2

Episode 19 : Trades Part 2

episode 18 : Trades Part 1

episode 18 : Trades Part 1

Episode 17 : Birds

Episode 17 : Birds

Episode 16 : Roads Pt.2

Episode 16 : Roads Pt.2

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  • @graymcgoldrick8388
    @graymcgoldrick83886 күн бұрын

    Thank you so much ❤

  • @Robbie7441
    @Robbie74419 күн бұрын

    It's been a long time since you have had a video up , I really hope you are ok ❤🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @barrypattison7980
    @barrypattison798012 күн бұрын

    Hi Eddie I love your stories I would like to hear more banshee stories or talk about her when I was young she used frightening me. Now I am 46. I am interested in her I enjoy your stories take care Eddie

  • @seemoore
    @seemoore15 күн бұрын

    Great tale as always

  • @simonmccullagh278
    @simonmccullagh27817 күн бұрын

    You love to be sitting in the kitchen with him telling stories

  • @Tero560
    @Tero56025 күн бұрын

    Greetings and thanks from Finland. Loved listening to your podcasts before going to sleep.

  • @littleeaglemcgowan
    @littleeaglemcgowanАй бұрын

    TOTALLY MAGIC.

  • @seemoore
    @seemoore2 ай бұрын

    Stoats are not weasels Eddie. One is weasely recognised and the other is stoatally different😊

  • @patfennell6y246
    @patfennell6y2462 ай бұрын

    Best story teller about the faires ever I have been listening to Eddie lenihan since I was young and he always scared the shite out of me 😂😂🎉🎉

  • @patfennell6y246
    @patfennell6y2462 ай бұрын

    The best prayer for the souls in purgatory is eternal rest grant unto them o Lord and let perpetual light shine upon them may there souls and the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of god rest in peace amen 🙏 ❤

  • @GMac2776
    @GMac27762 ай бұрын

    You're such a great story teller. Thank you for uploading these stories.

  • @johnnynesbit8289
    @johnnynesbit82895 ай бұрын

    Im probably one of the few people who actually believe some of these tales as i stdy the super natural after what happened to me i know human senses only can sense a small percentage of reality. Theres alot of modern acxounts of people being taken by entities Humanity has always been toyed with by the gods. We still are theres a war going on for our eternal consciousness

  • @dancurry1623
    @dancurry16235 ай бұрын

    I hope you all had a blessed Imbolc

  • @exorizy8733
    @exorizy87335 ай бұрын

    Happy new year Eddie were u @ tho

  • @JojoJacquesTarot
    @JojoJacquesTarot5 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for this! I could listen to your voice endlessly!! A great story teller you are!! 🙏 happy St Brigid’s day!! 🇮🇪🙏❤️

  • @thxverymuch6962
    @thxverymuch69625 ай бұрын

    I’m happy to say the tradition of wakes is still alive and well among us northerners here in Belfast.

  • @johnobrien7860
    @johnobrien78605 ай бұрын

    There is a pigeon cot at Fore Abbey in Westmeath.

  • @edwardoutthere3189
    @edwardoutthere31895 ай бұрын

    Eddie is great ambassador for our country,keeping old traditions some way alive

  • @johnobrien7860
    @johnobrien78606 ай бұрын

    The Mass Pass in my place wa s blocked... even the thorn bush was cut down.

  • @franc9111
    @franc91116 ай бұрын

    Ii is of course vital that Eddie Lenihan is doing this painstaking work of collecting stories and folklore, but I find it a great pity that when he publishes his stories, we don't get access to the original Irish. He is an Irish speaker and what he is collecting is of course in Irish as well, but unfortunately we don't get to hear it. Is mor an trua sin é. Is mise le meas - Franc.

  • @exorizy8733
    @exorizy87338 ай бұрын

    Come bk please

  • @magdalenaholt2967
    @magdalenaholt29676 ай бұрын

    Pretty please

  • @timothycussen6059
    @timothycussen60599 ай бұрын

    Xunt off a garda

  • @jamesstokes8692
    @jamesstokes86929 ай бұрын

    A Tom cat would take him on

  • @timothycussen6059
    @timothycussen60599 ай бұрын

    Ut thermal yaq my dat will come argggg ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @johninman7545
    @johninman754510 ай бұрын

    I grew up with bobing for the apple's in America.

  • @tonyireland1434
    @tonyireland143410 ай бұрын

    Eddie, love the stories fantastic, a 900 euro phone, long time since i was 9, I'm 61 now my phone cost 150 euro s i guess times change. Love listening to your stories Eddie great craic .

  • @johninman7545
    @johninman754510 ай бұрын

    I cooked goose many times for Christmas

  • @johninman7545
    @johninman754510 ай бұрын

    The English compoer Henry Purcell wrote a song about the cocks crowing at midnight Christmas. Crickets singing and the pixies pinching the maid who was lazy

  • @johninman7545
    @johninman754510 ай бұрын

    When you speak of a child's death, funeral it makes me think of time as a boy and new Catholic of sixteen my friend much older than I was lost he baby of less than one year. We went to Our Lady Of Sorrows church in Santa Barbara California we knelt down at the Pieta and prayed. The funeral hosts was grief stuck although he'd see much.

  • @johninman7545
    @johninman754510 ай бұрын

    Pin the tail on the donkey. I have played in

  • @johninman7545
    @johninman754510 ай бұрын

    Oh yes keeners Orenelio oh yi oh yi oh ranelio

  • @johninman7545
    @johninman754510 ай бұрын

    Was there Keening done at wakes? Anyone?

  • @junedanaher3861
    @junedanaher386110 ай бұрын

    Thank you Eddie for mentioning the Cilins. My brothers half twin was buried in Oughdara old ruin of church near Ballinacken North clare. My brother was always upset over it I discovered it some years after my other brother passed. Got it blessed by Father Connor & many other people who lost their babies showed up.

  • @lynnemurphy114
    @lynnemurphy11410 ай бұрын

    💚

  • @LUKERs1196
    @LUKERs119610 ай бұрын

    Lovely story Eddie

  • @lynnemurphy114
    @lynnemurphy11411 ай бұрын

    💚

  • @TheMuppyOtter
    @TheMuppyOtter11 ай бұрын

    They have the same story in Peru of the eagle and the wren, except a condor and hummingbird… the condor flies the highest and delivers prayers to god, one day the hummingbird who had always wanted to see god but could never hope to fly so high stowed away on the condor, when it popped out to take a look, the condor was afraid he would be punished, but the hummingbird received praise for the devotion required to have made it there

  • @ovi54
    @ovi5411 ай бұрын

    Eddie Lenihan is the uncle I never knew I needed.

  • @johninman7545
    @johninman754511 ай бұрын

    I had a encounter with a bird of evil omen. I was living in a place that had a bad spirit energy.I had an encounter and a panic attack .I got my Tibetan Buddhist text and did wrathful practice and there was an earthquake! Many months later a bird of the day,looking like a Robin came and sticking to the fly screen of a window stayed even at night. My sister was sick with cancer and I thought it was an omen of her death. I left on a Thursday and my sister died Friday night. On the Sunday following a friend called me saying that my roommate was having chest pain. The next Monday/Tuesday I had another call about his death. I had to move house. When I returned the same bird came back.I made the averting the gesture [mudra] and a mantra of the same from Tara.The bird flew off and scraping it's beak first flew off. We have Nature spirits good and bad

  • @finolaomurchu8217
    @finolaomurchu821711 ай бұрын

    I love dogs too but, would be open to a cat. My life always has had a dog, best of friends.☘️

  • @marzara5182
    @marzara518211 ай бұрын

    Millions of trees are been cut down for wind turbines ,its a disgrace mature trees prevent flooding and landslides on mountains.

  • @LUKERs1196
    @LUKERs119611 ай бұрын

    We had a wake for my aunt god rest her soul in Kilrush County Clare only 3 months ago We didnt drink in the house but there was plenty of food and family + visitors there We had a few drinks in the town and we came back and told stories and enjoyed each others company in the living room area where she was

  • @LUKERs1196
    @LUKERs119611 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this story Eddie Lenihan!

  • @eoghancasey5802
    @eoghancasey580211 ай бұрын

    Hope there is more stories to come! Love this podcast so much!

  • @braebeen6502
    @braebeen6502 Жыл бұрын

    Still plenty of wakes here in Ulster

  • @tomasjgraham
    @tomasjgraham11 ай бұрын

    Agreed. From Monaghan myself and wakes still how we show our final goodbyes. My mother passed away in 2013. Remember very clearly rule about someone having to stay in the room with the coffin not to leave them alone. Lots of friends and family call directly to the house to show respect for person who passed.

  • @braebeen6502
    @braebeen650211 ай бұрын

    @@tomasjgraham Absolutely

  • @williamgorden6390
    @williamgorden6390 Жыл бұрын

    Wouldn't it be great if someone would dramatize these stories in a motion picture. What a movie they could make, man! The world needs to know of these things. Whether or not they believe is less important than that - especially young people - they're exposed to Wonder & Mystery & Real Magic. These are essential and they're being lost or dismissed. One more point: as a child I was famously gullible and teased and called stupid. But I wasn't ashamed because I believed that anything can be possible - and I still do.

  • @NECRONOMICON7-7-7
    @NECRONOMICON7-7-7 Жыл бұрын

    Someone should put animation's to these amazing stories

  • @emmalouie1663
    @emmalouie1663 Жыл бұрын

    baptism has killed babies look it up

  • @edelmurray1260
    @edelmurray1260 Жыл бұрын

    I listen to you every day, going to work and coming home. You are a true treasure. The Podcast is brilliant. Keep them coming 🇮🇪

  • @pdox23
    @pdox23 Жыл бұрын

    Yew berries are NOT poisonous, but the seeds of the fruit ARE. And what about Beech trees?