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1. The
Woman Who Flummoxed the Fairies
2. Jack
O'Shea
3. The
Great Salmon of Wisdom
4. The Two Sisters
5. The Man who Hated Seals
6. Hobnail
Boots
7. She Moved Through the Fair
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Ceili
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Storytelling
CD
Storytelling binds community. While performing
together as members of the Houston Storytellers Guild, we found
the common thread of the Celtic running deeply through our
stories. In the same spirit of community, we created Ceili House.
It's our hope that you'll listen to these tales with someone you
love and pass along your own stories as a dedication to all the
lands from whence we come.
Marion Besmehn was born on the Isle of Anglesea
in North Wales just before the Second World War. Hobnail Boots is
a true story that happened to the family in 1943. Marions's
stories of her Irish grandmother and Welsh grandfather are her
attempt to connect the "old country" and the "new".
Susan Gallagher grew up in the Flatbush section
of Brooklyn in an Irish immigrant family which the beauty of
language was savored and the magic of the spoken word was highly
prized. Susan's love of the works of James Stephens and Lady
Augusta Gregory led her to create her story The Great Salmon of
Wisdom which is her original retelling of the famous
pre-Christian tale from the Finn Cycle of Irish Mythology.
Sally Bates Goodroe came to storytelling from a
love of folktales and folksongs. She loves both the mystical and
practical elements found in Celtic stories and song. Winner of
the prestigious John Henry Faulk Award for contributions to
storytelling in the southwest, Sally was one of the founders of
the Houston Storytellers Guild.
Having grown up all over the US and the world,
Brian Herod searched for a sense of belonging that he found in
storytelling. He tells traditional folktales of the Celtic lands
and promotes storytelling as a way of creating sustainable
community. Both original adaptations of traditional tales, Jack
O'Shea and The Man Who Hated Seals capture both the conflict and
redemption possible in community.
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