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Into The Mythic - Ancient Irish Stories for Modern Times

Into The Mythic - Ancient Irish Stories for Modern Times

By: Leeanne O' Donnell
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Exciting news! We are running a special online course this winter. Over 6 weeks from Samhain to Winter Solstice we invite you to join us online to be nourished and entertained by the magical stories of Ireland’s ancient culture. A live interactive experience with Into the Mythic hosts Pol and Leeanne.
Find out more and book your place at https://www.leeanneodonnell.com/store/p/into-the-mythic-online-course



Join us as we journey back and find new meanings in some very ancient stories. Leeanne O Donnell and Pol O Colmain revisit Ireland's ancient legends with fresh ears - peeling back the layers to uncover what resonance these stories might have for us now in the 21st Century. Some stories endure for thousands of years and these ones have - so what are they trying to tell us ? This series is made possible by the kind sponsorship of our friends at Wild Goose Studio. https://wildgoosestudio.com. Recorded at the Working Artist's Studio in Ballydehob. Presented and produced by Leeanne O Donnell. Music composed and performed by Pol and Dubhaltach O Colmain @workingartiststudios
Leeanne's first novel Sparks of Bright Matter is out now - in all good bookshops, on kindle and as an audiobook on Audible and Spotify.

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  • Episode 9 : Mythical, Mystical Islands

    Episode 9 : Mythical, Mystical Islands
    Oct 29 2024

    Get in touch wIth us !

    Exciting news! We are running a special online course this winter. A live interactive experience with Into the Mythic hosts Pol and Leeanne. From 6 weeks from Samhain to Winter Solstice we invite you to join us online to be nourished and entertained by the magical stories of Ireland’s ancient culture.
    Find out more and book your place at https://www.leeanneodonnell.com/store/p/into-the-mythic-online-course

    Episode 9 : This week Pol tells us about mysterious islands off the coast of Ireland that have been talked about for thousands of years - floating islands that have been glimpsed out beyond the horizon but have never been mapped...

    Come Into the Mythic with us ! Find out more about our live interactive course on Irish Mythology this winter at https://www.leeanneodonnell.com/store/p/into-the-mythic-online-course
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    27 mins
  • Episode 8: The Perfect Wife

    Episode 8: The Perfect Wife
    Oct 4 2024

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    In this story a radiant otherworldly woman emerges from the woods to marry an ordinary man .... with disastrous consequences ....

    Come Into the Mythic with us ! Find out more about our live interactive course on Irish Mythology this winter at https://www.leeanneodonnell.com/store/p/into-the-mythic-online-course
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    27 mins
  • Episode 7 : The Sun God and the River Goddess

    Episode 7 : The Sun God and the River Goddess
    Jul 9 2024

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    We are very happy to be back with a second season of Into the Mythic thanks to the sponsorship of our friends at WildGooseStudio.com in Kinsale. This week's story concerns two very ancient divine beings from Irish Mythology - Dagda and Boinne, who are two important characters in the stories about the Tuatha De Dannan. It seems that origins of this story go right back to the culture that built Newgrange.

    Come Into the Mythic with us ! Find out more about our live interactive course on Irish Mythology this winter at https://www.leeanneodonnell.com/store/p/into-the-mythic-online-course
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    26 mins
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Into The Mythic really brings to life several Irish Myths and Legends which I first heard as a child. Each conversation between Leeanne O' Donnell and Pól O' Colmain is fascinating with Pól telling each story and Leeanne asking pertinent questions.

Leeanne also looks at the various ways these myths are relevant to modern life and what messages they may have for us in the 21st century which is actually much more than you'd think. From listening to these myths it seems people are basically the same whether in ancient or modern times.

I hope there are many more episodes to come in this series.

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