In episode 237 of Fireside, Kevin adapts the Grimm Tale of Briar Rose, better known as The Sleeping Beauty. A king and queen are desperate to have a child, but when their blessing arrives, one uninvited guest could threaten to take it all away Order Gardensea Paperback: https://shop.headstuff.org/product/gardensea-by-fireside-host-k-c-olohan-preorder/ Order Gardensea Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Gardensea-Neo-Myth-K-C-Olohan-ebook/dp/B09M7T184P Support Fireside: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/news Source: 0141442220 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 238 of Fireside, Kevin adapts the Grimm Tale of The Frog Prince, a spoiled princess loses her precious golden ball, but when a mysterious frog offers to get it back for her, the princess may get more than she bargained for... Order Gardensea Paperback: https://shop.headstuff.org/product/gardensea-by-fireside-host-k-c-olohan-preorder/ Order Gardensea Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Gardensea-Neo-Myth-K-C-Olohan-ebook/dp/B09M7T184P Support Fireside: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/news Source: 0141442220 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 228 of Fireside, Kevin tells the tale of the staff of a Dublin townhouse, all of whom begin to hear creaks and clatters in the night. Who has cleaned the kitchen? Was it one of them? Or was it a shapeshifting faerie? Order Gardensea Paperback: https://shop.headstuff.org/product/gardensea-by-fireside-host-k-c-olohan-preorder/ Order Gardensea Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Gardensea-Neo-Myth-K-C-Olohan-ebook/dp/B09M7T184P Support Fireside: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/news Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fairy-Tales-Ireland-William-Butler/dp/0684829525 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 138 of Fireside, Kevin tells the final part of the fourth branch of the Mabinogion - the tales of Welsh mythology - with the troubled marriage of a man and his wife made of flowers: infidelity, treachery and vengeance abound… Follow Kevin on Instagram: @firesidebard Support on Headstuff+: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/owner/shows/fireside Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 137 of Fireside; Kevin continues the fourth branch of the Mabinogi, the tales of Welsh Mythology - by telling the story of a young boy cursed by his mother for the crime of his own birth. But there is more to Arianrhod’s wrath… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 136 of Fireside; Kevin tells the dark and sinister tale of the fourth branch of the Mabinogion - the tales of Welsh Mythology. Math is lord in the north, Pryderi is lord in the south. Math has two nephews - one is in love with Math’s foot maiden, the other will do anything to help his brother - anything. Support the podcast: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/owner/shows/fireside Follow Kevin on Instagram: @firesidebard Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 135 of Fireside; Kevin tells the third branch of the Mabinogion - the tales of Welsh Mythology. It’s the story of a mysterious mist that descends over the kingdom of Dyfed - a mist that wipes out all living creatures, except for four heroes - who must travel to England to work their trade…  Support at Headstuff+: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

in episode 134 of Fireside; Kevin tells the second part of the second branch of the Mabinogion - the collection of tales from Welsh Mythology. Branwen, Princess of Wales is being mistreated in Ireland by her husband Matholych - King of Ireland - So her brother Bendigeidfran sails to Ireland and war. Follow Kevin on Instagram: @Firesidebard Support Fireside: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 133 of Fireside, Kevin begins the second branch of the Mabinogion - the tales of Welsh Mythology; with the story of the marriage of the chief princess of Wales and the King of Ireland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 133 of Fireside Kevin tells the third and final part of the first branch of The Mabinogion - The welsh myth of the birth and mysterious disappearance of the son and heir of Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed and his wife Rhiannon.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 132 of Fireside, Kevin continues with the first branch of the Mabinogion of Welsh Mythology, which tells of how Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed met the love of his life - Rhiannon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 130 of Fireside; Kevin embarks into uncharted waters with the world of Welsh mythology - This is the first part of the first branch of the Mabinogion - it tells of Pwyll Prince of the kingdom of Dyfed, who wrongs the king of an enchanted other world and must make amends by taking the king’s place for one year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 129 of Firesiee; Kevin tells the third and final part of the epic tale of Conall Yellowclaw - who must save his sons from the Hangman’s noose through the power of his own storytelling. In this part, Conall recounts an encounter with a young mother who must offer up her baby to a cyclops if Conall does not intervene… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 227 of Fireside, Kevin tells a changeling tale with a twist - Jamie Friel works hard and looks after his mother. But one Halloween he takes a visit up to the ruins of an old castle, to meet the other folk and seek his fortune... Order Gardensea Paperback: https://shop.headstuff.org/product/gardensea-by-fireside-host-k-c-olohan-preorder/ Order Gardensea Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Gardensea-Neo-Myth-K-C-Olohan-ebook/dp/B09M7T184P Support Fireside: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/news Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fairy-Tales-Ireland-William-Butler/dp/0684829525 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 128 of Fireside, Kevin tells the second of the epic three part tale of Conall Yellowclaw - who must save the lives of his three sons, with three epic tales. In part II, Conall must use his cunning to escape the clutches of a giant and his flock of goats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 127 of Fireside; Kevin tells the first of three parts of the epic folk tale of Conall Yellowclaw - who must fight for the lives of his three sons, with only the power of his storytelling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 126 of Fireside, Kevin tells the mythological tale of Fintan Mac Bochra’s final days and his meeting with the ancient and potentially malevolent Hawk of Achill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 125 of Fireside, Kevin tells the Scottish folk tale of a high lord, who hires the services of a sprightly tailor to sew him a new pair of trousers...and also to investigate a supposedly haunted church... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 124 of Fireside, Kevin tells a story of how and why the provinces of Ireland, were and are still divided up. It’s a story of feasts, sages and angelic giants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 123 of Fireside, Kevin tells the tale of a young woman who encounters a leprechaun working on a holy day. She tries to get some beer and something shiny out of him, but how will that work out in the end? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 122 of Fireside; Kevin tells of the fourth landing on the island of Ireland - The men of bags themselves - the Fir Bolg. It’s the story of the landing of the Tuatha De Danann...from the other point of view... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 121 of Fireside, Kevin tells the folk tale of a rich woman whose peace is disturbed one night by the arrival of a witch with one horn...and a witch with two horns...and a witch with three horns...they just keep coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 120 of Fireside: Kevin tells of the third people to inhabit the island of Ireland - A people from the Greek nation of Scythia, in search of a Tower of Gold, and finding Ireland instead... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 226 of Fireside, Kevin tells the bloody tale of Abhartach, a supernatural demon dwarf who terrorised the folk of Derry a long time ago. Abhartach may also have inspired a Dublin writer who would redefine the world of horror... Order Gardensea Paperback: https://shop.headstuff.org/product/gardensea-by-fireside-host-k-c-olohan-preorder/ Order Gardensea Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Gardensea-Neo-Myth-K-C-Olohan-ebook/dp/B09M7T184P Support Fireside: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/news Source: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/dracula-bram-stoker-inspiration 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/adchoices

In episode 225 of Fireside, Kevin tells the ghost story of Captain Stewart, who while hunting, gets caught in a storm. After taking refuge in a large country estate, the captain has an encounter that may change the course of his life, and indeed, his death... Order Gardensea Paperback: https://shop.headstuff.org/product/gardensea-by-fireside-host-k-c-olohan-preorder/ Order Gardensea Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Gardensea-Neo-Myth-K-C-Olohan-ebook/dp/B09M7T184P Support Fireside: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/news Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fairy-Tales-Ireland-William-Butler/dp/0684829525 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

In episode 224, Kevin explores the ghost story of a hard working, honest woman named Grace Connor, whose spirit has unfinished business with the mortal world. Also featuring the poem A Legend of Tyrone by Ellen O'Leary Order Gardensea Paperback: https://shop.headstuff.org/product/gardensea-by-fireside-host-k-c-olohan-preorder/ Order Gardensea Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Gardensea-Neo-Myth-K-C-Olohan-ebook/dp/B09M7T184P Support Fireside: https://headstuffpodcasts.com/news Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fairy-Tales-Ireland-William-Butler/dp/0684829525 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 still celebrate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices