Fireside

In episode 119 of Fireside, Kevin tells the folk tale of a hero from Irealnd’s past, who dabbled in the dark arts and was fated to fight in the Great War for Irish freedom...but what happens when his wife discovers his secrets? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 118 of Fireside, Kevin tells of the second landing on the island of Eire - of a Greek Prince named Parthalon, who kills his own father, and must flee his home - taking refuge on the tiny windy island we now call Ireland... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 117 of Fireside, Kevin tells the tale of twelve brothers who are transformed into wild geese, and their younger sister, who must be the one to break the curse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘Before the Tuatha De Dannan, before the Gaels, Before the Fir Bolg and Fomorians there was..nothing. Or rather; there was no one...”  in episode 116, Kevin tells the tale of Ireland’s original landing - by a granddaughter of Noah called Cesair, and her endeavour to escape the Flood! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A changeling folk tale, of the problem child of a Tipperary couple and his preternatural musical gifts... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 114 of Fireside, Kevin tells the self-contained fetch-quest tale of The Dagda’s Harp - the instrument of the all-father of Irish Mythology, that could make it’s listener weep, or laugh, or sleep - it all depended on the Dagda’s intention! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 113, Kevin tells a tale of a Kemp -  a spinning competition to determine the eligibility for marriage of young Irish woman It’s a story of two rival kempers and a little old woman with a mysterious name...and it all feels very like a tale from the Brothers Grimm... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 112 of Fireside, we meet Brigid - Christian nun or pagan fire goddess? Perhaps both? We’ll discuss both St. Brigid of Kildare, and her alter ego/inspiration Brigid - Goddess of the Tuatha De Danann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 111 of Fireside, Kevin tells a folk tale about enchanted faerie hills and faerie trees, and what happens if you build a house on, or even near them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 110 of Fireside, we explore some of the appearances and deeds of Aengus Òg of the Tuatha Dè Dannan. In more recent times he has been known as a God of Love, but where did this idea begin? Let’s find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 109 of Fireside, Kevin adapts a tale from the American South West, from The Coyote Under the Table by Joe Hayes. The tale tells of a poor young boy, adopted as a goat herd, and the magical gifts he receives from a benevolent stranger - a napkin that produces food, and an instrument that makes all those who hear dance uncontrollably!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

In episode 108 of Fireside, Kevin tells the mythological story of the origins of the River Boyne - the results of curious goddess and an enchanted well. Also of this goddess’ love affair with the father of all Gods - and the result of their union... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 107 of Fireside, Kevin tells a Galway folktale about a poet named Seanchan, whose satire got him in hot water, with the gigantic and monstrous  King of the Cats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 106, Kevin delves deeper in the individual Gods of Irish Mytholgoy with two tales of Manannán Mac Lir - God of the Sea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 105, Kevin tells the earliest recorded tale to feature an Irish God - the story of Bran - High King of Ireland, and his encounter with Manannan Mac Lir - God of the Sea Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Epsiode 104 is a very Christmassy Fireside! Kevin reads Kavanagh’s A Christmas Childhood, the Dickens story that inspired A Christmas Carol, and the greatest Christmas fairytale of them all - Fairytale of New York Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 104, Kevin tells festive tales to warm the winter months - reclaiming pagan traditions of a Christianised holiday - the two birds of Christmas - the good natured, kind hearted robin and the clever, mischievous trickster wren. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin tells the story of Connlae, son of Conn of the Hundred Battles, in a tale that is the earliest surviving medieval Irish text...how’s it holding up? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 101, Kevin returns to his home county of Wicklow, for a story about a local chieftain, who, in old age, adopts an unusual pet. But when the companion grows old like her master, the two must seek the help of the namesake of your Fireside Bard: Kevin of Glendalough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 100th episode of Fireside! Appropriately; Kevin of the Hundred Episodes tells of Conn of the Hundred Battles. He also discusses the journey of the podcast up to this point - from Yeats to Fry. Listen to the end, for a special surprise: a remembrance of the very first episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 99 - The epic finale of Norse Mythology. The doom of the Gods. Kevin tells how it happened. Or how it will happen. Has it happened yet? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 98 - Norse Mythology is unique in that it has a beginning...and a definitive end. In this episode Kevin builds the tower of cards that would collapse with the story of the shining God Baldr, and how his death led to the doom of the Gods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 97 - Kevin returns to the familiar territory of the leader of the Fianna; Fionn Mac Cumhaill - in a tale which grew from Norse Mytholgy. Fionn and his hunting party take refuge in an old man’s house. There’s a goat and beautiful young woman, but is all what it seems? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 96 is The second Halloween special of Fireside; celebrating the gothic and the ghoulish in Irish literature, poetry and song. Kevin reads the eerie ballad of The LaKe of the Dismal Swamp Frankenstein’s monster is loose in Ireland? And I’ve heard of Christmas songs, but what about Halloween songs? Also discussions on the pagan feast of Samhain, its ties to mythology and other customs we sti...

In Episode 95 Kevin dips another toe into the bulging, brutish and brilliant world of Norse Mytholgy with Thor and Loki’s adventure to Jottenheim - The Land of Giants. But all is not as it seems... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices