Fireside
Episodes
Episode LIII: Quarrel of the Pig Keepers
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireisde is Episode 53: Quarrel of the Pig Keepers. Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and Twitter if you have any idea...
Episode LII: Cú Chulainn's Only Son
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside is Episode 52: Cú Chulainn's Only Son. Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and Twitter if you have any ideas f...
Episode LI: Cú Chulainn – Love and Training
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireisde is Episode 51: Cú Chulainn – Love and Training. Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and Twitter if you have ...
Episode L: Becoming Cú Chulainn
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s episode 50 of Fireside. And what better way of commemorating that than finally introducing Setanta. The young boy of the Ulster Cycle who would...
Episode XLIX: Deirdre of the Sorrows
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, continuing the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology, we meet the Sons of Uisneach and the foremost tragic heroine of the entire pant...
Episode XLVIII: Conchobar and The Pangs of Ulster
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, the first story of the Ulster Cycle, the greatest and most preserved and revered stories of Irish Mythology. We meet our king C...
Episode XLVII: Halloween Special – Fireside of Horror
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our Halloween special on this week's Fireside, Kevin reads pieces and extracts from some classic works from the pantheon of all things Gothic, horr...
Episode XLVI: The Banshee Welcoming Party
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Fireside, we have the next of our Halloween-themed folk tales. We meet young Hollohan, forced to flee Ireland because of the famine...
Episode XLV: The Piper and The Púca
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside is the first of our Halloween themed folk tales, this tells the story of a young Uilleann Piper with the ability to play only on...
Episode XLIV: The Madness of King Sweeney: Part II
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, the continuation of the story of Sweeney. Transformed into a creature half man and half bird, his mad wanderings all over the i...
Episode XLIII: The Madness of King Sweeney: Part I
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, the epic finale of the King Cycle of Irish Mythology, tells of Sweeney, King of Dal Arie and how he is cursed by the priest Ron...
Episode XLII: Conaire Mór
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, we continue the Historical Cycle of Irish Mythology with a look at Conaire Mór, the almost Grecian hero, who tried to rule jus...
Episode XLI: The Faerie Wife
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside: A folk tale about a mortal boy in Donegal who marries a Faerie. He’s fine with this, but his uncles sure aren’t... Get i...
Episode XL: The Wooing of Étaín
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the 40th episode of Fireside, Kevin tells one of the most famous of the Irish myths, and possibly one of the greatest love stories of all, about th...
Episode XXXIX: Four Foul Folktales Featuring a Fox
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside the Irish Story Telling Podcast, Kevin tells four different folk tales. All foul, some with fowl but all centered on a fox. G...
Episode XXXVIII: Mongán
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, in the next episode of our look at the Historical or King cycle of Irish Mythology, we meet Mongán, a hairy baby raised by the...
Episode XXXVII: Gold Tree and Silver Tree
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this Fireside, an Irish version of the classic fairy tale of Snow White sees the vain and wicked Silver Tree attempt to reclaim her place as most b...
Episode XXXVI: Cormaic Mac Airt
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, we continue our look at the Historical Cycle of Irish Mythology, with the story of the supposed greatest Irish King of them all...
Episode XXXV: Munachar and Manachar
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, a strange and humourous folk tale of a boy named Munachar, who wants to hang his foe Manachar, for the crime of eating his stra...
Episode XXXIV: Niall of the Nine Hostages
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, continuing our look at the Historical Cycle of Irish Mythology, Kevin tells of Niall, the founder of the O'Neill dynasty, who l...
Episode XXXIII: The Storyteller and the Beggar
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin is a storyteller who loves stories about storytellers. This Fireside episode is just that: the tale of a champion storyteller who suffers a crea...
Episode XXXII: Labhraidh Loingseach
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the first story of the Historical or King Cycle of Irish Mythology, we tell the tale of the long and bloody path to the throne Labhraidh Loingseach...
Episode XXXI: The Lady O'Connor
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside is a folk tale from county Clare, sourced from J.M. Synge's book on the Aran Islands, The Lady O'Connor tells of poor boy's ques...
Episode XXX: Tír na nÓg
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the 30th episode of Fireside, Kevin tells one of the most famous Irish myths of all time: Oisín and Niamh's adventures in Tír na nÓg, the land o...
Episode XXIX: The Faerie Horses
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A folk tale from the county of Cavan about the love between siblings and the dangers of Irish peat bogs...also Faeries and their horses. Learn more ab...
Episode XXVIII: The End of The Fianna
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the climactic final battle of the Fenian Cycle of Irish Mythology, Kevin tells of the causes, lead up to and casualties of the great Battle of Gabh...
Episode XXVII: Fair, Brown and Trembling
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside is an early Irish variation on the fairy tale of Cinderella: Fair, Brown and Trembling, which tells the classic tale of a beauti...
Episode XXVI: The Hostel of the Quicken Trees
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Fireside this week, is another tale from the Fenian Cycle of Irish Mythology, of Fionn Mac Cumhaill's relationship with a vengeful young Scandinavi...
Episode XXV: Guleesh and the Princess of France
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, a folk tale from County Mayo, about a young boy from Castlebar named Guleesh, who goes on an epic quest with a bunch of fairies...
Episode XXIV: The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As we approach the climax of the Fenian cycle of Irish Mythology on Fireside, Kevin tells epic love story of the Princess Gráinne and her love Diarmu...
Episode XXIII: Danno or the Devil?
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's Fireside, a recent folk tale from the County of Limerick. Kevin tells the tale of two young girls who encounter an old woman in the woo...
Episode XXII: The Legend of Sadhbh
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, continuing our look at the Fenian Cycle of Irish Mythology, Kevin tells of the legend of Sadhbh, the first and most beloved wif...
Episode XXI: Mr. Fox
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In another episode of Irish American Folklore on Fireside, Kevin tells the story of a young woman named Pretty Polly and her dealings with a mysteriou...
Episode XX: Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the Burner
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our continuing look at the Fenian Cycle of Irish Mythology, on this week's Fireside, the great warrior Fionn Mac Cumhaill finally takes his place a...
Episode XIX: Hudden and Dudden and Danielle O’Neary
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this Fireside, Kevin tells the Irish American Folk Tale of a the rivalry between two rich and greedy farmers named Hudden and Dudden, and a young I...
Episode XVIII: The Salmon of Knowledge
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing the Fenian Cycle of Irish Mythology on this week's Fireside, Kevin tells of the boyhood deeds of Fionn Mac Cumhaill, of his training with t...
Episode XVII: The Cunning Thief
03 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside is another American Folk Tale. 'The Cunning Thief' is about a young man named Jack with an incredible aptitude for cunning and t...
Episode XVI: The Forming of the Fianna
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, we begin our look at the Fenian Cycle of Irish Mythology, as Kevin tells the story of the foundations of the warrior clan known...
Episode XV: The Three Wishes
20 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our first look at an Irish American Folk Tale on Fireside, Kevin tells the story of a bad blacksmith who is granted three wishes, which ends in a c...
Episode XIV : The Landing of the Gael
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside is the final story of the Irish Mythological Cycle: The Landing of the Gael. This is the tale of the mortal men who would arrive...
Episode XIII: The Hunchback of Knockgrafton
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On unlucky episode 13 of Fireside, Kevin tells the folk tale of a change in fortune for a young hunchback boy, who gets mixed up with the other folk. ...
Episode XII: The Children of Lir
20 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside is the most famous tale from the Mythological Cycle, and probably the most famous Irish myth of all time: The Children of Lir. ...
Episode XI: The Tobacco Quest
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, we hear a fairy story of a tobacco obsessed farmer who goes on a journey to find his precious smoke. A journey that takes him a...
Episode X: The Great Battle of Magh Tuireadh
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The climax of the Irish Mythological Cycle. This week on Fireside, Kevin gives the epic conclusion to the Lugh and Bres Saga, in which the Tuatha Dé ...
Episode IX: The Soul Cages
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, Kevin tells the story of a fisherman’s obsessive pursuit of a merrow, and of what he finds when he is invited into that merro...
Episode VIII: The Sons of Tuireann
23 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, in our continuing look at Irish Mythology, Kevin tells story of three sons who greatly wronged Lugh, King of the Tuatha Dé Dan...
Episode VII: The Brewery of Eggshells
16 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Changelings have always been one of the darkest, strangest, and most enduring aspects of Irish Folklore. In this story on Fireside, Kevin tells of the...
Episode VI: The Coming of Lugh
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing our look at Irish Mythology, Kevin tells the story of the life of Lugh Lámh Fhada (of the long arm), mighty King of the Tuatha Dé Danann,...
Episode V: The Man Who Had No Story
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Irish are known as a nation of storytellers. In Episode V of Fireside, Kevin tells the story of the series of unfortunate events that followed an ...
Episode IV: The Reign of Bres
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, Kevin continues his take on early Irish mythology with the story of the reign of Bres – the beautiful, but miserable king of ...
Episode III: The Wonderful Tune
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Fireside, Kevin tells a folktale about a blind Uilleann Pipers, beautiful mermaids and a tune that makes everyone who hears it dance unco...
Episode II: The Tuatha Dé Danann
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Coming of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Kevin tells of the arrival in Ireland of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the earliest Gods of Ancient Ireland, and their g...
Episode I: The Giants Causeway
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin tells of the Legend of Knockmany, of Fionn Mac Cumhalls great batttle with a Scottish Giant named Bennandonner and of the creation of the Giants...
Fireside Trailer
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fireside is the new Irish Storytelling Podcast. Kevin C. Olohan is your host and Fireside Bard. Every Wednesday, Kevin takes a story from Folklore or ...