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Books on County Clare, Ireland, History and People
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Eddie Lenihan – Storyteller.
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010In these days of deepest gloom and doom, when the radio or television can’t be turned on for fear of hearing about the recession, a volcano eruption or (perhaps strangest of all!) an earthquake in West Clare, what better way to escape than into the magical world of our oldest form of entertainer – the ’seanchaí’ (or traditional storyteller)?
For many years now, Eddie Lenihan has been recognised as Ireland’s greatest living seanchaí.
His stories open a window into our imaginative inner world – where we are suddenly and miraculously free from the baggage of the inane and everyday; where the rules of physics and rationality don’t apply – time can expand accordian-like, transforming a day into years, reducing a lifetime to minutes. It is a world where the rules don’t apply; where things happen in threes, in sevens or multiples of these magical numbers; where beautiful and grostesque creatures live side-by-side – or indeed inside the same skin ; where children can be transformed into goblins and old women into beautiful maidens; where the the stream that seperates dreams from nightmares has been muddied; and nothing is as it seems.
This is the realm of Eddie Lenihan.
Within minutes of opening one of his books, the mundane world around us fades and we cross the treshold into his world. It is less escapism, and more of a return to an imaginative landscape we inherited from our ancestors. An experienced not to be missed!
Eddie Lenihan regularly tells stories in Scéal Eile Books, in front of a blazing fire.
He currently has nine books in print – popular titles include “Meeting the Other Crowd – The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland” , “In Search of Biddy Early”, “In The Tracks of the West Clare Railway”, “Irish Tales of Mystery and Magic” (beautifully illustrated by Alan Clarke) , “The Devil is an Irishman”, “Strange Irish Tales for Children” and “Long Ago by Shannonside” - signed copies are available of all of these titles from Scéal Eile Books, Market St., Ennis or from our online store. A personalised signed copy can be sent on request.
Three Cds are currenly available which showcase Eddie’s inimitable style of storytelling – “Storyteller 1 & 2″ (Double Cd), “Fionn MacCumhail and the Púca / Fionn MacCumhail and the Dark Pool” (Double CD), “Saint Patrick was a Gentleman”.
Thoughts on the Riches of Ireland
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010” Our object in building up the country economically must not be lost sight of. That object is not to be able to boast of enormous wealth or of a great volume of trade for their own sake. It is not to see our country covered with smoking chimneys and factories. It is not to show a great national balance sheet, nor to point to a people producing wealth with the self-obliteration of a hive of bees. The real riches of the Irish nation will be the men and women of the Irish nation the extent to which they are rich in body and mind and character. “
- Michael Collins