Thank you very much for sharing, you remind me of my eldest sister. I used to sit on her lap by the fireside in the dark, whilst she told us her younger siblings a story. I am now in my 70s . You stir my imagination.🧚♂️
Why should I be surprised that you have just given me the very thing I can share with a beloved sister who has estranged herself? And should I be surprised that she so resembles you, Kate, that she could be your sister?!? I’m absolutely in love with what you are bringing us.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Growing up in a Catholic family in Australia Kate was like a wee bit of Ireland transplanted. My Irish grandmother believed in the fairies and I wish I had known her. My mother was Welsh descended and pooh pooed the idea; she thought GM was a witch.(I wish). Irish Catholicism was part religion and part folklore and in our rural remote region a bit of anachronism thrown in. Love the tales of the fairies and your very special storytelling arts. Listening to Irish language I feel I might have once spoken it. Such beautiful life teachings couched in shamanic and magical words. Thank you 🌹🕊️🙏
I love reading of your deep connection with this beautiful tradition and folklore. It's yours to enjoy and explore. Thank you for your very kind words. So glad to meet you!
I express my belonging by the simple act of smiling at everyone I pass on the road each day, acknowledging fellow travellers no matter the species. My wildness expresses itself through being my own helmsman; forging my own path. May Samhain greet you all with a store of what nurtures you through the dark season 🎃
this is really very interesting in today's world of isolation and disconnection from others. The post covid world where all we see are delivery men can result in addictions and other mental issues. The traditional venues of congregation such as the church and pub are dying. One has to make an appointment to pop in to many of our friends homes. I like the recognition of the two aspects of our being and how we need to keep them balanced.
I love what you share here and agree with you: isolation and loneliness can wear us down and spiral into further separateness. We need each other. It's worth making invitations and keeping things simple and human-scale - a pot of tea and some cookies from the shop or a cut-up apple will do. So much goodness comes of this!
I am left handed and my mother would not let me help her in her kitchen because she said it was unlucky. As an adult I had to teach myself to cook. Her father was born on Colonsay Island. I love your channel ❤
Thank you Kate, I love to hear the Irish language and the mix between English and Irish. The theme of belonging resonates deep with my experience. Thank you for that!☘☘🌛
Kate, you are a delight. I don't know how creative I am, however if you would take my skiing in the wonderful snow, well then that's my painting. A few years back I helped an army friend rebuild his deck near Seattle, Wa and for a pay off we were to spend a trip, maybe back to Germany where we did our army time. He had been there recently so we went to Green Country, to Dublin and then driving to County Cork and Tragumna to stay for 9 days. Not so far from Skibbereen. A delightful time. Thank you, James
So thrilled to have found your insightful and delightful channel. My dad was born Crossmaglenn. Looking forward to your delightful teaching. I suspect you have missed the stone given your status as a true raconteur.
What a blessing! A lovely contribution to the integration of belonging and otherness that is so needed as the veils not only thin but re-shape themselves. I love that you've kept your vinyl {another video} as I miss my analog collection! And I love that you harp. It inspires me to begin again. Your stories and the mix of fairie, the Irish language, and emerging wisdom, are the milk and honey that feed any path. Thank you!
I'm smiling ear to ear here about your lovely, loving words. YES - let's nourish ourselves on beauty and mystery and good company. Thank you for yours!
Thank you Kate for sharing your lovely folklore/stories. I am an Asian from Singapore and enjoyed listening to your Irish pronunciations although I think it's a rather difficult language to master. In any case, I'm glad to subscribe to your channel to learn more of your Irish traditions.
Lovely as always Ms. Cait -- the story was wonderful and was a revelation in that as soon as you began, I was right at the waterside watching the young man digging for eels -- that has to be a holy frequency whatever it is. As far as the belonging/otherness goes, as someone who makes art I would say the belonging comes in participating in something human beings have been moved to do as long as there have been any -- the otherness comes in because, whether I intend to or not, there is always something in what I make that defies being constrained by convention or symmetry or the so-called 'rules of composition' -- art, for me, is a safe space for the other world to come through :) 💚💙💜
That is one of the truest and most profound sentences I’ve ever read - that art is the place where we meet that Otherworld and bring it into ours and make it available. I’m so grateful to you and for you, my friend. This is YOUR territory and it’s wonderful to be walking in it with you. ❤️
That bit about the unlucky way to go around a circlen reminded me of Charles de Lint's fiction, Widdershins specifically. I love the way he weaves myths into modern settings. You are doing something similar with this channel :)
I have played and enjoyed Irish Traditional music for about 40 years in a group, Celtic Crossroad. Your site is a Celtic Crossroad. I am so fortunate to have found you. God Bless!
My ancestors are largely Scottish (Stirling), Irish, and Swedish. Have not visited any of them, yet do feel the pull. Today’s story reminds me of times with my Grandma. Thank you. That said, solitude is a strong part of who I am. Now bonding with my grandson, Calan.
So glad to have found you and your channel, just at this turn of the year, a turn whose mystery and magic.is becoming more interesting to me as time goes along. Wonderful story, and as ever.to hear new.(to me) insights into the Other Folk. Thank you!
Thanks for another wonderful video, Kate. Before my wonderful Irish Mum died, about 20 years ago, I took her in her wheelchair on a wee pilgrimage to Knock, County Mayo, where Our Lady appeared to comfort desperate people during an gorta mor, the Great Hunger. Anyway, there is a tradition that if you go round the church three times there is a special blessing to be had. This chimed with what you say about The ancient Irish tradition of going round a hill ( and the very name "Knock") three times. I love the way that Catholicism and pre christian traditions sit so happily together in Ireland. My Mum, grandparents and family all believed in the fairies while being devout Catholics, too. Touching somehow.
I agree with you entirely - very moving to hold these two ways in the heart at once, and to weave them so beautifully. Thank you so much for this and I'm grateful for your very kind words!
Human connection is so important ❤ I have been trying to branch out more in my local area and make new friends. I had kind of given up on being able to maintain friendships as a busy adult, but I’m starting to learn that it is in fact possible with a little work!
I've been to Ireland twice, both times in the decade of my sixties (which I'm still in). We spent time in the west and particularly loved Galway. These insights into the ancient traditions of its storytelling help me understand more clearly what might lie beneath an Enda Walsh plot, or what's lurking in the corner of a W. B. Yeats poem. So thank you! And Happy Halloween from Kathleen.
I grew up in the largely Irish American neighborhood of Cork Hill in Davenport, Iowa. Halloween was the best holiday filled with trick or treating, parties, ghost stories, decorations, pumpkin carving...the most spooky fun 🎃. Best memories
It's a pleasure to listen to and learn from you! I like to imagine sitting by a hearth, listening to someone singing a ballad or telling a ghost story. I remember my dad knew, word for word, ballads and often sang them and funny traditional songs to my sister and me before we went to bed. Late autumn and winter were such cozy times way back, when I lived with my parents, brothers and sisters.
@@mrs.g.9816 Those are such beautiful memories. Perhaps this winter you will gather with some friends by the fire and share songs and stories? Sending good wishes your way 🍀
This is a nice respite from election coverage here in the tri state area. Just found your channel! I had been learning Irish some time ago. So great to hear it!
I repeatedly dream about being invited into fairy homes for dinner, and once also sitting down to a fairy banquet. I always wake up before the food is served, although on one occasion I know that a stew was on the menu because I was charged with setting the table and needed to put out soup bowls. 😁
As a granddaughter of my McNulty family of County Mayo, your stories speak to me as if my Ancestors were telling me their stories. I’m so grateful for your sharing our Irish stories with the world.
What an interesting channel. Although completely different on one side, my South American background has so much folklore. We call it “ realismo mágico “ which translated means something like magic reality. So many stories to tell and to share with others. You have ignited in me the need to pass on to my children and grand children some of the magic. It’s fascinating to hear about something I know nothing about. So enriching. Thank you
God be with you Kate, I just seen you play harp and singing, very good Kate, I was surprised you study de Irish language to such a extent, fair play to you, can you imagine I grew up with Christian brothers speaking irish and still trying to learn it, I ahh understand a lot of it, I know about folk lore stories ect, writing and spelling, I've to brush up, can you Imagine I'm back in school again ar my age I'm one year older than you kate, I'm writing short stories poetry, I know this woman who teaches music and irish, she plays a lot of Instruments, she teaches me banjo once a week, I gave her your podcast, a donegal women, lots in common, I was looking at painting over you, madra rua, agus shonnaig mr fox, keep up the good work. Talk soon Kenneth.
So much wisdom and depth to this. Inspiration and support for being bold in the creative life and gentle at the same time. Thank you Kate and Irish lore.
Mer Cait, Oiche Shamna shona duit! So much wonderful material! It’s all so interesting to me. Fairy annoyance and fairy stroke, are such magical ways to think, and the Fairy boys, were they always men? Great story as well! Good thing the young loner had a kind mother! Go raibh maith agat! How will I join the circle of belonging? It’s true that creativity is often a solitary business, your amazing channel is one way to keep in contact, and the wildness, bring it on, that, I’m always searching for! 🧚♂🧜♀ Happy day! Sibeal
You LIVE that wildness and belonging, a Shibéal a stór! I love what you notice - that the kindness of the mother is really the key here, that link between a past kindness and a present kindness that helps a lonely young man find a second chance. This moves me so much. I'm so grateful to "see" you here, a chara dhil. Thank you with all my heart for your kindness and encouragement always. And Beannachtaí Oíche Shamhna duit! Bain sult as an oíche draíochta seo!
My darling grandmother was full of such faerie stories and mischief. You’re dissertation is huge. Samhain in Australia is sunny and bright at this time as we move towards summer. I must leave something out for the faeries tonight to keep them friendly.
Thank you for the story (I like your take on it) and information about celebrations in Ireland during this season. I'm fascinated by the ways countries and cultures mark holidays around the world. I love how you share your creativity and how you encourage everyone to be creative too.
Thank you very much! I discovered your channel today and I really love! I love the Irish folklore and the myths and folklore in general. Today, here in Catalonia, we celebrate La castanyada. We eat roasted chestnuts and sweet potatos and panellets (a kind of sweet made of almond and sugar and covered with pine nuts). Traditionally, we gather together at night around a fire and we tell stories as we eat and drink sweet wine. I love this magic night, when fades i follets (fairy people) can be seen, and maybe some people of the other side, our loved who dead, come to visit us just to say they are well. ❤
Oh, i am so happy to have found your channel. I'm fascinated with all things, celtic and all things that have to do with the fairy world. Though I was raised in America, my heart and ancestry is from the old country of Ireland. 💚🍀I truly feel as though I was born on the wrong continent!😕 i thoroughly enjoyed your stories this evening and hearing the old gaelic language being spoken. What a treat! I am now officially a new follower! Sending much aloha from the island of Maui.🌺
Oh this is so fun. I cannot imagine taking the gates off of a farm- it sounds like such a headache/nightmare. I like the idea of togetherness and wildness. So often I feel like it has to be a one or the other, but to braid them together is beautiful. Family, community, and being bold and sharing what I create (or creating something for others) are my togetherness. But I need the wildness of nature and thought to be with me always- if I give too much of myself away there's no spark to create with and the world becomes gray- like a filter’s been placed over it. Okay, I'm done rambling. Thank you for such a beautiful channel.
My name is Kate, too! I live in Wales, and I love writing faerytales, poetry, and anything magical. I loved the story, my grand grand grandmother was from Ireland, and I have been trying to read upon Irish folklore as well as Welsh to understand my ancestry a bit more so, that I can write about it, I am not a fan of Halloween but I love your channel! Diolch Fawr.
Thank you for the lovely stories and the invitation at the end for belonging and wildness…I love it! I will contemplate how to bring both into my creative life. ❤ 🎃🧙♀️👻
Thank you Kate so much Again a delightful glimpse into our wonderful folklore I just LOVE the way you bring the lore to life! In Irish! The presence of the other world really feels tangible right now, I’m just going to check my gate is closed before I go to bed! 🤔☘️ Interestingly I am thinking of joining a singing group today…
I'm so happy I found you on my feed Kate!. I love the faeiry realm. I have two guardian fearies, Petunia and Wisteria. They bring so much joy, creativity, and playfulness so much Magick when they're around. 🧚♀️✨️🧚♂️✨️🧚♀️✨️
Growing up in England in the 60s trick or treat was unheard of. Or at least it was in our part of the world. We just had mischief night. The night before Halloween.
I love fairies and I love Irish folclore. I guess I got an Irish past life that is calling me there. I express my belonging trough my meditations and oracle readings. I love to express myself creatively and celebrate all kinds of festivities and traditions.❤😊
My Granny Katie was fae County Mayo, Thankyou lovely Samhain Blessings, I’m in Hampshire, England now though. I feel the Beautiful Emerald Isle calling all of my life. ☘️🧚♀️🎃🧚☘️
Crossroads in old lore are in themselves magical places. You, indeed, have here a magical crossroads that we may wander through and creatively mingle and inspire. Widdershins is another fantastical word, imbued with magic, that means going the other, not necessarily wrong, way around. I love it; "plain old fairy abduction"...😂 Only someone fully immersed in Irish folklore would say such a thing. And then there are the mystic hermits who were equally feared and revered for the knowledge and guidance gained from contemplative solitude. An aspect of my belonging is the giving over of my art. That is to say in this instance that people observing my paintings have often felt free to give their idea of the meanings. My usual response is, "I hadn't thought of that but actually you're right". This gives us a mutual, shared experience that I would stretch in to a sense of belonging. 🍀🙏🍀
I love that - "the giving over" of our art. I like the idea that what the observer observes is there for them. There's such a graciousness in allowing the observer to have their experience and meaning, and there's wisdom in letting it enrich the art itself. (And thank you for noticing my obsession with fairylore! :)
Thank you so much for your commitment to storytelling and Irish history! Happy Halloween to you and all reading this. 🎃 May we be safe and together in community this winter!!
I only just found your channel, it is so delightful and such synchronistic as I have been recently looking into my ancestors that are from Ireland , my grandmother , her family surname name was Emperor Kelly and my grandmother who grew up also in Australia would also talk about Fairies and seeing them in her garden , she was a blessing in my life , I live and grew up Australia and my favourite place was in her garden amongst the flowers that she had created with my grandfather. I am 54 years old and I love your channel, thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom ❤
How blessed and lucky you are to have grown up with such a wonderful grandmother. I love thinking of her Irish spirit in the garden in Australia, passing the torch of magic and beauty to you. Thank you for sharing this beautiful connection, and I'm so glad you're here with us!
@ thank you , yes indeed I am blessed by my Grandmother and my ancestors that handled down the inspiration of the spirit world and thank you for helping us all here keep the uplifting spirit alive within us all ❤️
@@katechadbournebard unfortunately, she was very cagey about her time in Ireland- she was a protestant and an Anglophile! However, me and my daughters have experienced the actual Fairy folk -here in Devon and near Cork in Ireland!
I'm curious about how far back Irish Folklore originated. I've also often wondered if the suffering of the Irish at the hands of the English up till the Potato famine and after produced more folklore.
Such a good question. People only really started to think about folklore AS folklore at the start of the 19th century. But many customs and stories go back much further than that
I'm so deeply grateful for finding you Kate! You have such beautiful energy and I've been longing for some time now to find a thread of connection that will further open my Irish ancestry. ❤❤❤ I'd love to connect with you via email if this is possible...? 🙏
@@andrealee7198 thank you for your very kind words, and welcome! You can certainly write to me and please don’t take it amiss if I’m unable to reply for some time as the volume of mail and messages I receive is immense. I do read every letter even so. Mainly, I’m so happy you feel a resonance with what I’m sharing here and thank you for telling me! ❤️
Gate night!!! ...funny twist and oh my how traditions travel...I am in Canada, born and raised. I grew up in Northern Ontario where I guess there are quite a few Irish Folk. My husband was born and raised in SE Ontario where many folks were British loyalists and French (Not all, but some, I don't want to catch any static here😉). However, I once called the eve of Halloween (Oct 30th) "Gate night" and my husband had NO idea what I was talking about, apparently, neither did I!!! I didn't realize it actually dealt with the stealing of gates from farmers pastures, but now in hidesight, Yes, I guess it did. Jee golly I was daft when I was young. But what a funny thing! Another funny story from where my husband lived in SE Ontario (effectionately known as the Ottawa Valley), On Halloween someone would take a wagon (an actual wooden wagon) and put it on the roof of the bank! Still to this day no one knows who the culprits were! That IMO was a feat for only the fittest! Thank you for being one of the best "stumble upons" I look forward to enjoying more content and much binge-watching!
All so fantastic!!! That wagon on the bank is perfectly in line with the kind of pranks the Fairy Boys liked to play. And how cool about "Gate Night." Sometimes you DO know even when you don't know that you do!
I just found your channel, and while I celebrate Scottish heritage (and Scottish Gaelic), I love your content! Tha mi a’ guidhe Oidhche Shamhna bheannaichte dhut!
Hello! I just started following your station. I very much enjoyed this episode! Thank you! I would like to learn more. Can you please recommend a good book to learn more about Samhain history and folklore? I celebrate Samhain as I follow a Druid path but I never heard any of this and find it such a fascinating and rich history! ( I live in the U.S.A.)
This episode reminded me of the song, "I am My Mother's Savage Daughter". I was not sure it was okay to post a link to a music video, but anyone can find multiple versions of it with a simple search.
Indeed, a life of contemplative solitude was/is a kind of belonging. Their insights and beautiful works of rendering words to page are a legacy to all. And just their peaceful quietness surely emanates out for all. St. Francis is a favourite to me. Mainly because of his love for and affinity to animals 🙏
That’s fantastic, Mike: this is you to a tee. Thank you for weighing in here. And wow - I love your lobsterman song! Go raibh céad míle maith agat, a chara dhil 🍀
Saturday next, the 2nd of November, All Saints day, i am going on a hill trek with like minded folks up Cnoc Aiste in County Westmeath. It is close to Uisneach where we climbed on the Eve of Michaelmas. 29 September. The light that day was limpid.🎉
I open the window, held my breath and plunged away from the chaos into the grown up s who never belonged. What is my identity? I am as wide as a widow in time an forever opening to the heart without knowing where I will fall. Maybe into the unconditional silence of freedom to be a wild flower.
I’m so grateful to you for piping up here on behalf of night visiting and all the fun and mischief of Halloween. Sounds like a wonderful growing up time for you, and still alive in you now. Thank you and míle beannacht leat!
I think finding you is serendipitous.
Smiling here. Thank you for that!
Thank you very much for sharing, you remind me of my eldest sister. I used to sit on her lap by the fireside in the dark, whilst she told us her younger siblings a story. I am now in my 70s . You stir my imagination.🧚♂️
@@janetmore351 What a beautiful picture you paint of sisterly affection. I’m honored to remind you of such a warm and imaginative time. ❤️
Why should I be surprised that you have just given me the very thing I can share with a beloved sister who has estranged herself?
And should I be surprised that she so resembles you, Kate, that she could be your sister?!?
I’m absolutely in love with what you are bringing us.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
@@MsJilgal I am celebrating here. Thank you for your wonderful words and all my warmest wishes to you and your sister! ❤️
I could listen to you all evening, you have a sweet gental voice. I enjoy listening to the Gealic language. Reminds me of my dad
Wow, thank you: that's an honor!
Mmmmmmm Realy a sad story of the boy....Sometimes I do that ..not to connect with people but I missed so much for not going ❤❤❤💛💚🌈💙🇿🇦
Growing up in a Catholic family in Australia Kate was like a wee bit of Ireland transplanted. My Irish grandmother believed in the fairies and I wish I had known her. My mother was Welsh descended and pooh pooed the idea; she thought GM was a witch.(I wish). Irish Catholicism was part religion and part folklore and in our rural remote region a bit of anachronism thrown in. Love the tales of the fairies and your very special storytelling arts. Listening to Irish language I feel I might have once spoken it. Such beautiful life teachings couched in shamanic and magical words. Thank you 🌹🕊️🙏
I love reading of your deep connection with this beautiful tradition and folklore. It's yours to enjoy and explore. Thank you for your very kind words. So glad to meet you!
I express my belonging by the simple act of smiling at everyone I pass on the road each day, acknowledging fellow travellers no matter the species. My wildness expresses itself through being my own helmsman; forging my own path. May Samhain greet you all with a store of what nurtures you through the dark season 🎃
You are doing much good with that practice! Thank you for telling us about it and for being here!
@@katechadbournebard ❤
What a beautiful form of expressing the love within your heart and who we all really are... Beings of pure love ❤
That’s lovely Ty 😊
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this is really very interesting in today's world of isolation and disconnection from others. The post covid world where all we see are delivery men can result in addictions and other mental issues. The traditional venues of congregation such as the church and pub are dying. One has to make an appointment to pop in to many of our friends homes. I like the recognition of the two aspects of our being and how we need to keep them balanced.
I love what you share here and agree with you: isolation and loneliness can wear us down and spiral into further separateness. We need each other. It's worth making invitations and keeping things simple and human-scale - a pot of tea and some cookies from the shop or a cut-up apple will do. So much goodness comes of this!
I am left handed and my mother would not let me help her in her kitchen because she said it was unlucky. As an adult I had to teach myself to cook. Her father was born on Colonsay Island. I love your channel ❤
Great bit of folklore - thank you so much for sharing it with us here!
What a Joy to have found you! Thank you!
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I am Australian❤
Thank you Kate, I love to hear the Irish language and the mix between English and Irish. The theme of belonging resonates deep with my experience. Thank you for that!☘☘🌛
You're so welcome!
A wonderful story, beautifully delivered!
Thank you so much! ❤️
I love listening to your stories about a much happier world.
Blessed #Samhain.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Your words touch my heart. Thank you, and a blessed Samhain to you, too, a chara!
Kate, you are a delight. I don't know how creative I am, however if you would take my skiing in the wonderful snow, well then that's my painting. A few years back I helped an army friend rebuild his deck near Seattle, Wa and for a pay off we were to spend a trip, maybe back to Germany where we did our army time. He had been there recently so we went to Green Country, to Dublin and then driving to County Cork and Tragumna to stay for 9 days. Not so far from Skibbereen. A delightful time. Thank you, James
@@JamesBlack-ck4wy James, it seems to me that between skiing and helping friends and traveling, you are an artist of Life! I salute your zest! 🍀
So thrilled to have found your insightful and delightful channel. My dad was born Crossmaglenn. Looking forward to your delightful teaching. I suspect you have missed the stone given your status as a true raconteur.
Thank you! And I must admit - I kissed that stone not once but twice. :)
What a blessing! A lovely contribution to the integration of belonging and otherness that is so needed as the veils not only thin but re-shape themselves. I love that you've kept your vinyl {another video} as I miss my analog collection! And I love that you harp. It inspires me to begin again. Your stories and the mix of fairie, the Irish language, and emerging wisdom, are the milk and honey that feed any path. Thank you!
I'm smiling ear to ear here about your lovely, loving words. YES - let's nourish ourselves on beauty and mystery and good company. Thank you for yours!
@@katechadbournebard My very great pleasure.
Thank you Kate for sharing your lovely folklore/stories. I am an Asian from Singapore and enjoyed listening to your Irish pronunciations although I think it's a rather difficult language to master. In any case, I'm glad to subscribe to your channel to learn more of your Irish traditions.
Thank you so much! I'm delighted to meet you!
Overjoyed to have found you today Kate, in these last hours of Samhain. Le Grá
Welcome, and lovely to have you here with us. Sonas ort, a chara!
Samhain is also a fire festival
We had a bonfire every year at Samhain, a tradition I continue.
Great to hear that!
Lovely as always Ms. Cait -- the story was wonderful and was a revelation in that as soon as you began, I was right at the waterside watching the young man digging for eels -- that has to be a holy frequency whatever it is. As far as the belonging/otherness goes, as someone who makes art I would say the belonging comes in participating in something human beings have been moved to do as long as there have been any -- the otherness comes in because, whether I intend to or not, there is always something in what I make that defies being constrained by convention or symmetry or the so-called 'rules of composition' -- art, for me, is a safe space for the other world to come through :) 💚💙💜
That is one of the truest and most profound sentences I’ve ever read - that art is the place where we meet that Otherworld and bring it into ours and make it available. I’m so grateful to you and for you, my friend. This is YOUR territory and it’s wonderful to be walking in it with you. ❤️
That bit about the unlucky way to go around a circlen reminded me of Charles de Lint's fiction, Widdershins specifically. I love the way he weaves myths into modern settings. You are doing something similar with this channel :)
Let me tell you, as a fan of Charles de Lint, I’m honored to my toes to be seen in the same frame with him. Thank you so much for that! ❤️
@@katechadbournebard That's wonderful! If I had to pick my favorite writers ever it'd be him and Louise Erdrich :)
You are such a sweet person ❤
@@empathiaobscura979 Thank you! Your comment is a mirror for you to look into ❤️
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I have played and enjoyed Irish Traditional music for about 40 years in a group, Celtic Crossroad. Your site is a Celtic Crossroad. I am so fortunate to have found you. God Bless!
Thomas, you have made my whole week. Thank you with all my heart!
My ancestors are largely Scottish (Stirling), Irish, and Swedish. Have not visited any of them, yet do feel the pull. Today’s story reminds me of times with my Grandma. Thank you. That said, solitude is a strong part of who I am. Now bonding with my grandson, Calan.
Beautiful!
So glad to have found you and your channel, just at this turn of the year, a turn whose mystery and magic.is becoming more interesting to me as time goes along. Wonderful story, and as ever.to hear new.(to me) insights into the Other Folk. Thank you!
Isn’t that marvelous- that the world is becoming more mysterious and magical for you as you journey through time? So glad you’re here!
Thanks for that. I have been living in Donegal for 38 years. I am still writing and thinking and looking out to sea.
Your stiries are much appreciated!
Thank you so much, kind friend!
Thanks for another wonderful video, Kate. Before my wonderful Irish Mum died, about 20 years ago, I took her in her wheelchair on a wee pilgrimage to Knock, County Mayo, where Our Lady appeared to comfort desperate people during an gorta mor, the Great Hunger. Anyway, there is a tradition that if you go round the church three times there is a special blessing to be had. This chimed with what you say about The ancient Irish tradition of going round a hill ( and the very name "Knock") three times. I love the way that Catholicism and pre christian traditions sit so happily together in Ireland. My Mum, grandparents and family all believed in the fairies while being devout Catholics, too. Touching somehow.
I agree with you entirely - very moving to hold these two ways in the heart at once, and to weave them so beautifully. Thank you so much for this and I'm grateful for your very kind words!
@@katechadbournebard Ah, Grand so! 🙏☘
Human connection is so important ❤ I have been trying to branch out more in my local area and make new friends. I had kind of given up on being able to maintain friendships as a busy adult, but I’m starting to learn that it is in fact possible with a little work!
That's wonderful! Happy connecting!
Thank you your voice and storytelling are very lovely. I have learned much.
@@judypederyedwards1106 You are so kind. Thank you for telling me!
I've been to Ireland twice, both times in the decade of my sixties (which I'm still in). We spent time in the west and particularly loved Galway. These insights into the ancient traditions of its storytelling help me understand more clearly what might lie beneath an Enda Walsh plot, or what's lurking in the corner of a W. B. Yeats poem. So thank you! And Happy Halloween from Kathleen.
Wonderful to hear about your holidays here in Ireland. Galway is still traditional and authentic. It is my heritage, so I am biased a little.
I'm so glad this is helpful for you in your work: thank you for telling me and Happy Halloween, Kathleen!
I grew up in the largely Irish American neighborhood of Cork Hill in Davenport, Iowa. Halloween was the best holiday filled with trick or treating, parties, ghost stories, decorations, pumpkin carving...the most spooky fun 🎃. Best memories
Sounds wonderful - a real celebration!
It's a pleasure to listen to and learn from you! I like to imagine sitting by a hearth, listening to someone singing a ballad or telling a ghost story. I remember my dad knew, word for word, ballads and often sang them and funny traditional songs to my sister and me before we went to bed. Late autumn and winter were such cozy times way back, when I lived with my parents, brothers and sisters.
@@mrs.g.9816 Those are such beautiful memories. Perhaps this winter you will gather with some friends by the fire and share songs and stories? Sending good wishes your way 🍀
This is a nice respite from election coverage here in the tri state area. Just found your channel! I had been learning Irish some time ago. So great to hear it!
I repeatedly dream about being invited into fairy homes for dinner, and once also sitting down to a fairy banquet. I always wake up before the food is served, although on one occasion I know that a stew was on the menu because I was charged with setting the table and needed to put out soup bowls. 😁
Beautiful! Those dreams would make a great series of poems, songs, or stories 😊
Hah, lucky for you. It's my understanding that if you eat of their food or drink that you'll be trapped in their realm 🍀
As a granddaughter of my McNulty family of County Mayo, your stories speak to me as if my Ancestors were telling me their stories. I’m so grateful for your sharing our Irish stories with the world.
@@JulieOles Thank you truly. Your encouragement means the world to me 🍀
What an interesting channel. Although completely different on one side, my South American background has so much folklore. We call it “ realismo mágico “ which translated means something like magic reality. So many stories to tell and to share with others. You have ignited in me the need to pass on to my children and grand children some of the magic. It’s fascinating to hear about something I know nothing about. So enriching. Thank you
That is fascinating to learn and I will investigate further. Thank you and so glad to meet you!
God be with you Kate, I just seen you play harp and singing, very good Kate, I was surprised you study de Irish language to such a extent, fair play to you, can you imagine I grew up with Christian brothers speaking irish and still trying to learn it, I ahh understand a lot of it, I know about folk lore stories ect, writing and spelling, I've to brush up, can you Imagine I'm back in school again ar my age I'm one year older than you kate, I'm writing short stories poetry, I know this woman who teaches music and irish, she plays a lot of Instruments, she teaches me banjo once a week, I gave her your podcast, a donegal women, lots in common, I was looking at painting over you, madra rua, agus shonnaig mr fox, keep up the good work. Talk soon Kenneth.
@@kennethEccles-yp7fb God be with you, Kenneth. You are kind!
So much wisdom and depth to this. Inspiration and support for being bold in the creative life and gentle at the same time. Thank you Kate and Irish lore.
Truly grateful for your kind words!
Mer Cait, Oiche Shamna shona duit! So much wonderful material! It’s all so interesting to me. Fairy annoyance and fairy stroke, are such magical ways to think, and the Fairy boys, were they always men? Great story as well! Good thing the young loner had a kind mother! Go raibh maith agat! How will I join the circle of belonging? It’s true that creativity is often a solitary business, your amazing channel is one way to keep in contact, and the wildness, bring it on, that, I’m always searching for! 🧚♂🧜♀ Happy day! Sibeal
You LIVE that wildness and belonging, a Shibéal a stór! I love what you notice - that the kindness of the mother is really the key here, that link between a past kindness and a present kindness that helps a lonely young man find a second chance. This moves me so much. I'm so grateful to "see" you here, a chara dhil. Thank you with all my heart for your kindness and encouragement always. And Beannachtaí Oíche Shamhna duit! Bain sult as an oíche draíochta seo!
I loved this thank you ❤️
My darling grandmother was full of such faerie stories and mischief. You’re dissertation is huge. Samhain in Australia is sunny and bright at this time as we move towards summer. I must leave something out for the faeries tonight to keep them friendly.
All pagan.
She sounds marvelous- the magical kind of grandmother who gives you a lifetime of stories and happy memories ❤️
Thank you for the story (I like your take on it) and information about celebrations in Ireland during this season. I'm fascinated by the ways countries and cultures mark holidays around the world. I love how you share your creativity and how you encourage everyone to be creative too.
You’re so kind and I’m glad you’re here. Thank you! 🍀
Thank you very much! I discovered your channel today and I really love! I love the Irish folklore and the myths and folklore in general. Today, here in Catalonia, we celebrate La castanyada. We eat roasted chestnuts and sweet potatos and panellets (a kind of sweet made of almond and sugar and covered with pine nuts). Traditionally, we gather together at night around a fire and we tell stories as we eat and drink sweet wine. I love this magic night, when fades i follets (fairy people) can be seen, and maybe some people of the other side, our loved who dead, come to visit us just to say they are well. ❤
@@amigadisadora that sounds like pure magic. Thank you so much for sharing these traditions with us here. So interesting and inspiring!
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Oh, i am so happy to have found your channel. I'm fascinated with all things, celtic and all things that have to do with the fairy world. Though I was raised in America, my heart and ancestry is from the old country of Ireland. 💚🍀I truly feel as though I was born on the wrong continent!😕 i thoroughly enjoyed your stories this evening and hearing the old gaelic language being spoken. What a treat! I am now officially a new follower! Sending much aloha from the island of Maui.🌺
Thank you so much! Blessings to you, friend
Oh this is so fun. I cannot imagine taking the gates off of a farm- it sounds like such a headache/nightmare. I like the idea of togetherness and wildness. So often I feel like it has to be a one or the other, but to braid them together is beautiful. Family, community, and being bold and sharing what I create (or creating something for others) are my togetherness. But I need the wildness of nature and thought to be with me always- if I give too much of myself away there's no spark to create with and the world becomes gray- like a filter’s been placed over it. Okay, I'm done rambling. Thank you for such a beautiful channel.
I love and appreciate everything you’ve shared here. You understand perfectly! Thank you for your wonderful words!
My name is Kate, too! I live in Wales, and I love writing faerytales, poetry, and anything magical. I loved the story, my grand grand grandmother was from Ireland, and I have been trying to read upon Irish folklore as well as Welsh to understand my ancestry a bit more so, that I can write about it, I am not a fan of Halloween but I love your channel! Diolch Fawr.
Hello my Welsh Kate sister who also loves fairytales and poetry! 😊 Diolch yn fawr iawn i ti!
Thank you for the lovely stories and the invitation at the end for belonging and wildness…I love it! I will contemplate how to bring both into my creative life. ❤ 🎃🧙♀️👻
Thank you Kate so much
Again a delightful glimpse into our wonderful folklore
I just LOVE the way you bring the lore to life! In Irish!
The presence of the other world really feels tangible right now, I’m just going to check my gate is closed before I go to bed! 🤔☘️
Interestingly I am thinking of joining a singing group today…
@@valeriewatson5260 love that!!! More singing and JOY for you! Thank you so much for your very kind words ❤️
Thank you!
I am subscribed ❤
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Welcome!!
I'm so happy I found you on my feed Kate!. I love the faeiry realm. I have two guardian fearies, Petunia and Wisteria. They bring so much joy, creativity, and playfulness so much Magick when they're around. 🧚♀️✨️🧚♂️✨️🧚♀️✨️
Wonderful!
Growing up in England in the 60s trick or treat was unheard of. Or at least it was in our part of the world. We just had mischief night. The night before Halloween.
I love fairies and I love Irish folclore. I guess I got an Irish past life that is calling me there.
I express my belonging trough my meditations and oracle readings. I love to express myself creatively and celebrate all kinds of festivities and traditions.❤😊
@@ivettesotocanalizadora that sounds marvelous and truly joyful!
My Granny Katie was fae County Mayo, Thankyou lovely Samhain Blessings, I’m in Hampshire, England now though. I feel the Beautiful Emerald Isle calling all of my life. ☘️🧚♀️🎃🧚☘️
Well done Kate. I enjoyed your work.
Thank you so much!
Crossroads in old lore are in themselves magical places. You, indeed, have here a magical crossroads that we may wander through and creatively mingle and inspire.
Widdershins is another fantastical word, imbued with magic, that means going the other, not necessarily wrong, way around.
I love it; "plain old fairy abduction"...😂 Only someone fully immersed in Irish folklore would say such a thing.
And then there are the mystic hermits who were equally feared and revered for the knowledge and guidance gained from contemplative solitude.
An aspect of my belonging is the giving over of my art. That is to say in this instance that people observing my paintings have often felt free to give their idea of the meanings. My usual response is, "I hadn't thought of that but actually you're right". This gives us a mutual, shared experience that I would stretch in to a sense of belonging.
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I love that - "the giving over" of our art. I like the idea that what the observer observes is there for them. There's such a graciousness in allowing the observer to have their experience and meaning, and there's wisdom in letting it enrich the art itself. (And thank you for noticing my obsession with fairylore! :)
Thank you so much for your commitment to storytelling and Irish history! Happy Halloween to you and all reading this. 🎃 May we be safe and together in community this winter!!
Beautifully said - yes, and thank you!
I only just found your channel, it is so delightful and such synchronistic as I have been recently looking into my ancestors that are from Ireland , my grandmother , her family surname name was Emperor Kelly and my grandmother who grew up also in Australia would also talk about Fairies and seeing them in her garden , she was a blessing in my life , I live and grew up Australia and my favourite place was in her garden amongst the flowers that she had created with my grandfather. I am 54 years old and I love your channel, thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom ❤
How blessed and lucky you are to have grown up with such a wonderful grandmother. I love thinking of her Irish spirit in the garden in Australia, passing the torch of magic and beauty to you. Thank you for sharing this beautiful connection, and I'm so glad you're here with us!
@ thank you , yes indeed I am blessed by my Grandmother and my ancestors that handled down the inspiration of the spirit world and thank you for helping us all here keep the uplifting spirit alive within us all ❤️
My gran was from West Meath, from a tiny village called Castletown. I wonder if they ever had the "Fairy boys" knocking on the door?
I would love to know, too!
@@katechadbournebard unfortunately, she was very cagey about her time in Ireland- she was a protestant and an Anglophile! However, me and my daughters have experienced the actual Fairy folk -here in Devon and near Cork in Ireland!
I have just found you and subscribed. Noson Calan Gaeaf Hapus from Wales
@@cerridwencottagediary9194 diolch yn fawr iawn!
I have no dought,,,, feary s are real " it's a battle between good and bad in Thier world,, wise's and unwise.🇮🇪
I'm curious about how far back Irish Folklore originated. I've also often wondered if the suffering of the Irish at the hands of the English up till the Potato famine and after produced more folklore.
Such a good question. People only really started to think about folklore AS folklore at the start of the 19th century. But many customs and stories go back much further than that
Excellent video kate
Thanks for the cool story and analysis. 👍🏻
Go raibh míle maith agat Kate, grá ó Eire❤
@@JaneDoe-i1p beannachtaí agus grá leat! ❤️
Dr. Kobler-Ross believed in fairies and actually saw them!
Wow! I didn't know that!
She was the Death and dying doctor, a triplet, and worked with HIV children. In her book, there was much controversy over this subject.
I'm so deeply grateful for finding you Kate! You have such beautiful energy and I've been longing for some time now to find a thread of connection that will further open my Irish ancestry. ❤❤❤ I'd love to connect with you via email if this is possible...? 🙏
@@andrealee7198 thank you for your very kind words, and welcome! You can certainly write to me and please don’t take it amiss if I’m unable to reply for some time as the volume of mail and messages I receive is immense. I do read every letter even so. Mainly, I’m so happy you feel a resonance with what I’m sharing here and thank you for telling me! ❤️
Gate night!!! ...funny twist and oh my how traditions travel...I am in Canada, born and raised. I grew up in Northern Ontario where I guess there are quite a few Irish Folk. My husband was born and raised in SE Ontario where many folks were British loyalists and French (Not all, but some, I don't want to catch any static here😉). However, I once called the eve of Halloween (Oct 30th) "Gate night" and my husband had NO idea what I was talking about, apparently, neither did I!!! I didn't realize it actually dealt with the stealing of gates from farmers pastures, but now in hidesight, Yes, I guess it did. Jee golly I was daft when I was young. But what a funny thing!
Another funny story from where my husband lived in SE Ontario (effectionately known as the Ottawa Valley), On Halloween someone would take a wagon (an actual wooden wagon) and put it on the roof of the bank! Still to this day no one knows who the culprits were! That IMO was a feat for only the fittest!
Thank you for being one of the best "stumble upons" I look forward to enjoying more content and much binge-watching!
All so fantastic!!! That wagon on the bank is perfectly in line with the kind of pranks the Fairy Boys liked to play. And how cool about "Gate Night." Sometimes you DO know even when you don't know that you do!
I am so happy I found your channel!!!!
Welcome! ❤️
As they would say in Australia: 'Good on You mate.'
I just found your channel, and while I celebrate Scottish heritage (and Scottish Gaelic), I love your content! Tha mi a’ guidhe Oidhche Shamhna bheannaichte dhut!
@@BethRitterGuth go raibh céad míle maith agat agus gurb amhlaidh duit, a chara!
Hello! I just started following your station. I very much enjoyed this episode! Thank you! I would like to learn more. Can you please recommend a good book to learn more about Samhain history and folklore? I celebrate Samhain as I follow a Druid path but I never heard any of this and find it such a fascinating and rich history! ( I live in the U.S.A.)
Hooray and welcome! My favorite book on Irish calendar customs is “The Year in Ireland” by Kevin Danaher. Loaded with great lore and inspiration!
@katechadbournebard Thank you!
❤️💙💚🌹I love you 🥰
This episode reminded me of the song, "I am My Mother's Savage Daughter". I was not sure it was okay to post a link to a music video, but anyone can find multiple versions of it with a simple search.
@@StephanieSoressi great song!
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Oíche Shamhna. Kate. Saoirbhreathach ☘
Go raibh maith agat a chara!
Whar about the solitude of the monks?
Tell me more. I’d like to understand
Indeed, a life of contemplative solitude was/is a kind of belonging. Their insights and beautiful works of rendering words to page are a legacy to all. And just their peaceful quietness surely emanates out for all. St. Francis is a favourite to me. Mainly because of his love for and affinity to animals 🙏
Wow! Over 5000 views. You’re an influencer. I play music with people for Belonging and write songs for Otherness.
That’s fantastic, Mike: this is you to a tee. Thank you for weighing in here. And wow - I love your lobsterman song! Go raibh céad míle maith agat, a chara dhil 🍀
Saturday next, the 2nd of November, All Saints day, i am going on a hill trek with like minded folks up Cnoc Aiste in County Westmeath. It is close to Uisneach where we climbed on the Eve of Michaelmas. 29 September. The light that day was limpid.🎉
Night visiting was part of my childhood. As real as breathing. We dunked the apples and those type of games. Ring in the cake etc. 🎉
The gate opening and the bush in the gap was real too. Sometimes the livestock got away. Causing problems for the farmer. 🎉
I open the window, held my breath and plunged away from the chaos into the grown up s who never belonged. What is my identity? I am as wide as a widow in time an forever opening to the heart without knowing where I will fall. Maybe into the unconditional silence of freedom to be a wild flower.
That’s poetry, my friend. I salute you!
I’m so grateful to you for piping up here on behalf of night visiting and all the fun and mischief of Halloween. Sounds like a wonderful growing up time for you, and still alive in you now. Thank you and míle beannacht leat!
I have closed captions on and it keeps referring to Samhain as Sin. The season of sin… tbh, I’m a quite upset with this.
The Pucha king of the fairies Was on the prowl we were scared To go out. I’m from Galway in USA now
Love hearing this from you. Thank you!