Candlelit Tales Irish Mythology Podcast

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast. For the month of March, we are sharing stories of our island’s patron Saint, and what came before him, and what was displaced. Witness to the fall of the Fianna, witness to the years of chaos, and banished by the new god. Shadowy and terrible, ravenous and indestructible, said to be the mother of the divil himself. This is her story. This story is told...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast. For the month of March, we are sharing stories of our island’s patron Saint. And one of the best stories of Patrick is the story of his strange friendship with an odd old man, who claimed to be a hero of legend. After the fall of the Fianna, Oisín, son of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, lived in the land of eternal youth, heedless of the centuries slipping by. When...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast. For the month of March, we are sharing stories of our island’s patron Saint. Well, one of them. And there can be no stories of Patrick without tales of the heroes who came before him. The Fianna were the warriors and guardians of ancient Ireland, captained by the great Fionn Mac Cumhaill. But all good things come to an end, and little by little, the Fia...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast. This week, we are talking with our guest storyteller Rick Scott from Lore and Legend about goddesses, wren-hunting, and pagan traditions. You can find more from Rick at https://www.loreandlegend.co.uk/ FEAST TICKET LINK!!!!! https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/candlelit-tales-storytelling-fianna-feast-the-tin-roof-60-per-person-tickets-271389512337 This podcast...

FEAST TICKET LINK!!!!! https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/candlelit-tales-storytelling-fianna-feast-the-tin-roof-60-per-person-tickets-271389512337 Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast. This week, we are going to hear a story that is truly an out and out goddesses story. And like all Irish Goddess Stories, this one is shrouded in mystery as well. This is the story of Tailtiu, the Goddess of the Ta...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast. This week, we are going to hear a story linked to goddesses and to love, and (because it’s an Irish story and we can’t have nice things) to ultimate tragedy. This is the story of Fraech, son of the goddess Béibhínn, and his courtship of Finibhear, the daughter of Queen Medb and her consort, Aillil. This story is told by Sorcha Music is by Oisín Ryan and...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Goddess Series. This series is all about the divine feminine in ancient tales. We started with a triple bill for the triple Goddess Brigid last week, and we have a beautiful telling from another mythology Podcast, ‘Lore & Legend’. Today we will be hearing Rick Scott telling us the story of The Wren Bird and the Manx Legend of Tehi Tegi....

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and to this special episode to celebrate Imbolc, the Goddess, and the saint Brigid. This month we are focusing on Goddesses and we’re looking forward to releasing more Goddess stories later. This episode is three short stories about Brigid. Brigid the Goddess, the Conception story of Brigid, and the Saint stories. There are so many little stories about...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and the final episode in the back Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. You might recognise the characters in this series from the Táin saga. These stories stand alone, linked by one connection: the different manifestations of their Battle Rage. In this...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. This is the story of the goddess at the centre of it all, the embodiment of Battle Rage: the Morrigan. An inescapable force, whether we flee from her or embrace her, she brings clarity, power, and des...

Show Notes Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. This is the story of Emer and the only time she experienced jealousy so fully it brought her to a battle rage. The story is also known as ‘The only Jealousy of Emer’ or ‘The sickbed of Cúch...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. This is the story of Finibhear, the daughter of Queen Medb of Connaught This re-telling is inspired by true events that happen all around us all the time This story is told by Oisín Music is by Oisín...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. This is the story of Findchoem, who is mostly remembered for her relationships to the heroes of the Ulster Cycle. She was related to Conchubar Mac Nessa through their father, Cathbad, but grew up in C...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. Sorcha and Aron chat about the stories so far. You might recognise the characters in this series from the Táin saga. These stories stand alone, linked by one connection: the different manifestations o...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. This is the story of Friuch, the swine herd of Munster. Friuch once had a close friend called Rucht. The two of them shared a lot in common, as they were both swine herds. But jealousy got between the...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. In this episode you will hear the story of Ferdia Mac Daman, warrior of Connaught, told by Rú O’Shea. You might recognise the characters in this series from the Táin saga. These stories stand alone, l...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. This is the story of Neasa, the woman who was once called Easa. She was called this because Easa means gentle, but after seeing the horrific murder of her entire family, her life was destroyed. She vo...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and back to the Battle Rage Series. This year we decided to choose lesser known characters from the Ulster Cycle, and tell their most interesting stories. This is the story of Laeg, charioteer to the Champion of Ulster, Cuchulainn. He was know as the king of charioteers when he died. But as a youth it's interesting to consider, what drove him to be Cúch...

This podcast was brought to you by our Patreon supporters. We say it every week, but it’s not just a slogan. This was brought into stark focus for us last week as the equipment purchased by Patreon donations decided to spontaneously and simultaneously go on strike! So with the podcast delayed, Aron and Sorcha jumped on a call to thank our Patreon patrons profusely, call them all our by name, and c...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and to the first episode of our last series of 2021. In this episode we got together and talked out the plan we have in store for the Battle Rage Series. Each year for the past seven years we have always told the Táin Bó Cuailnge, or a variation of it. We have several iterations of this Irish epic recorded in previous podcasts. So this year we decided t...

Samhain Eve Special! Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and the last episode of our Superstitions Series. We had the pleasure of talking with Anthony Murphy from Mythical Ireland about the last three stories, and we hope you enjoy our conversation even half as much as we did. In this episode we talk to Anthony about the wider connotations folklore and beliefs have in Irish culture; the l...

Part of our 2021 Samhain Superstitions Series Story by Sorcha and Aron Hegarty Music and composition by Oisín Ryan Produced by Ruairi O’Shea & Oisín Ryan This podcast is proudly sponsored by the people who donate to us each month via https://www.patreon.com/candlelittales and anyone who sends us a once-off donation through the Paypal button on our website http://candlelittales.ie/ #keepherlit #kee...

******* Part of our 2021 Samhain Superstitions Series The infamous story of the murder of Brigid Cleary became well known as the last witch burning of the nineteenth century. The world turned it’s gaze at Ireland in 1895, when Michael Cleary was found guilty of manslaughter after burning his own wife to death. The only reason he wasnt charged with murder was because the court found he truely belie...

Part of our 2021 Samhain Superstitions Series This is a story of the Good Folk and their ways. When we think of the fairies, we might think of the leprechauns, hiding pots of gold with a twinkle in their eyes. We might think of funny little rascals, playing harmless pranks and tricks. We don’t often think of them the way we used to, back when they were feared. The Good People are so called so as n...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast, and to the post show chat episodes about our collaboration with ‘The Embers Collective’, and we will hear from Lonan Jenkins, Oisin Ryan as they compare notes about the stories they shared. If you missed episode 132 of this series, have a listen before this episode to avoid spoilers, or after if you prefer. The next two episodes will be more post show c...