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Eddie Lenihan is Ireland’s most well known storyteller. He has been telling tales for over 35 years. Each month, Eddie will share Irish wisdom and stories from the past on the Tell Me A Stor...
This month, Eddie recounts the curious tale of Dennis O'Rourke and how his meeting with a stranger on the way to the Tulla horse-fair pulls...
This month, Eddie brings us an in-depth insight into the traditions surrounding Irish wakes. He speaks about how our relationship with death...
Eddie recites the frightening tale of what happens when two farmers from Quin in Co. Clare interfere with the Good People who called Corball...
Dogs and cats and horses and rats. Eddie explores how these animals have long been the subject of Irish folklore stories, and what messages...
This month, Eddie speaks of the banshee in Irish culture, and the fear her wail instilled in those who heard it. The banshee, or the badhbh...
Eddie speaks about the macabre subject of graveyards in Ireland, and the rituals and piseogs that surround them. He explains the delicate pr...
Continued from Eddie's previous discussion last month, Eddie picks up where he left off on his journey into the place names of Ireland. List...
This month, Eddie discusses the place names of Ireland. He traces how the Irish version of the name often contains important geographical re...
This month, Eddie tackles the contentious subject of the Black and Tans and their arrival in Ireland in 1920. He traces their history as con...
After months on hiatus spent working on his new book, Eddie returns with another episode of the podcast. This month, Eddie looks at the idea...
Death has always been a mournful time. The transition from one world into another. In Ireland, the rituals and practices that surrounded a f...
This month, Eddie continues his study of the old trades of Ireland. Things back then were made to last, where as things today are made to we...
Trades-people formed the backbone of society in traditional Ireland, supplying the public with hand-made tools and services. This month, Edd...
Ireland has a wide variety of native birds, full of colour and character. This month, Eddie discusses the superstitions and symbolic relevan...
Eddie continues his discussion of roads in Ireland, this time reflecting on some of the stranger aspects of our routes and byways. He speaks...
This month, Eddie takes a historic look at the role that roads play in Ireland in all their complexity, beauty and ugliness. The windy and s...
The Long Dark Winter Nights. An eerie time of the year, where those other things might be closer to us than we think. They take many forms,...
This month, Eddie speaks about Christmas customs and traditions in Ireland in the olden days. A time for preparations, rituals and feasts. T...
We're back at last. This month, Eddie speaks about the great trees of Ireland, and why they held such a profound spiritual power over the na...
A quick memory revisited by Eddie about the old custom of offering a blessing when you stepped inside the home of someone else. Support this...
This month, Eddie recounts his experiences of talking and conversing with the old people around Ireland. Through documenting their stories a...
This month, Eddie tells us of a man named Sean O'Connor who came from Sliabh Luachra. The kind of man who didn't quite fit in. Sean's fiddle...
This month, Eddie tells a story from his own parish of Brosna in Co.Kerry about two cruiteacháns - local hunchbacks known as Ned Murt and Pa...
This month, Eddie tells a number of tales about the curious power of cures. Eddie relays a number of cures that Biddy Early prescribed to va...
This month, Eddie gives a brief introduction to the fairies, na daoine uaisle . He explores the traditional roots of fairy folklore and lege...
This month, Eddie looks back on how he was first introduced to story-telling and collecting in Brosna in Co. Kerry. Eddie explores the impor...
This month, Eddie speaks about some of the defiant Irish women in Irish folklore. He tells of Máire Rua McMahon from Co. Clare, and her tria...
Eddie tells some stories about St Brigid. St Brigid is also known as Mary of the Gael or Muire na nGael. She is one of the Patron Saints of...
In this episode Eddie talks about animals in Irish Folklore and their importance in storytelling. Support this show http://supporter.acast.c...
A great woman. In this episode Eddie gives an introduction to Biddy Early, the bean feasa, the “wise woman” of Clare. Support this show http...
Oíche Shamhna (Halloween) the night of the fairies, the night of the spirits. In this episode, Eddie explores the traditions and legends tha...