Episode 6 : The Art of Collecting

This month, Eddie looks back on how he was first introduced to story-telling and collecting in Brosna in Co. Kerry. Eddie explores the importance of passing down stories from one generation to the next, and how it preserves our cultural and traditional beliefs. This episode is supported by Creative Ireland.
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[@lizveta6643]

I subscribed. My mother recently passed, and didn't record her. We're probably Scotch Irish heritage, and how she loved to recount her certain stories which she did a 1000 times, almost always nearly just the same each time. She also was supposed to have written out family folklore, but it was always put off until later.

[@lizveta6643]

My last name is Grice. Am I Irish?

[@BabbleOn108]

Very sorry to hear about your mother's passing. Its on you now to write the stories down before they are lost like so many have been. Best of luck!

[@wendy5871]

I so love these stories... And I am really looking forward to the military stories...perhaps some of the troubles ... My grandparents were born 1900 and 1905 and had stories of The Banshee and such , but Grand Daddy never mentioned any stories from the time of the troubles in that regard... You're a treasure Eddie.. Thank you for sharing all your work

[@blueroot2547]

Wonderful stories, your book is great.

[@holographer4810]

Heya! I enjoyed so much the image of the perilous journey up the small road on a motorbike and the thatched house from the 18th century not modernized, open fires, and the old 88 year old Leahey not from this time calling 26 year old Eddie, "Sir". So captivating, Sir, the way you can conjure images. Thank you kindly and thank you so.

[@Gerardomalley]

Some great insights there Eddie, fair play to you. Keep up the good work.

[@DavydWood]

So grateful for you doing these, thank you. Like yourself, I like to go to the pub to work creatively, except I'm generally drawing in my sketchbook.

[@JariB.]

You say Blacksmiths and Armourers have died out, which I must disagree with, being a beginning blacksmith, currently aged 22. True, there are by far not as many as there were before the wars, but we are certainly still here. But all that aside, I discovered your storytelling activity just yesterday, but today I've spent all day listening to various videos of yours. I very, very much enjoy storytellers and their occupation. More so than movies or anything of the like. Stories told or read are [to me at least] vastly better, and more enjoyable.

[@squeek5810]

My regards and respect to you from Australia, my ancestors come from ireland of course.

[@JohnnieTheFox85]

Eddie, you mentioned you had recordings of these storytellers. Will you ever share any of these stories told by them? Great episode!

[@joannbyrne182]

At least you have the sense to know you were no means a sir to no man bless you

[@borderlands6606]

The idea that German WW1 graves were black, is a red herring. Articles 225 and 226 of the Versailles Treaty pertaining to war graves makes no mention of it. Indeed, German graves were in all colours, and in graveyards containing commonwealth troops, were uniformly white with them. What may have given rise to this idea, is German graves on the Western Front were often black wrought iron, or wood, in keeping with practice in Germany. What is the case is German cemeteries were left to decay after the war, and it was not until 1925 that the German war graves commission was allowed to tend the burial sites. This is understandable as most were on Belgian soil, and with German atrocities in Flanders a recent memory, there was no enthusiasm for their upkeep in a still impoverished country. With the re-laying of German war graves in 1930 crosses were black, in keeping with the sombre appearance of German burial culture at the time. It may well be the case that Hitler made capital of this, but as he distorted every conceivable difference of enemies real and imagined, funerary architecture would be fair game.

[@franc9111]

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.

[@dublinstrillest99]

It still only folklore in a sense if someone tells a story to someone who puts it down on paper