Eddie Lenihan is one notable modern-day seanchaí, based in County Clare.

Seamus MacManus is considered by many to be the last great seanchaí, or storyteller of the ancient oral tradition.

He also edited a collection of stories by Micil Ó Muirgheasa, a seanchaí from Ring.

Tomás Laighléis, Seanchaí, fl.

In 2000, founding member Chris Byrne left the band to focus on his solo music project Seanchaí and the Unity Squad.

The importance of stories and storytellers throughout human history can be seen in the respect afforded to storytellers like the African griot and the Irish seanchaí.

The word seanchaí, which was spelled seanchaidhe (plural seanchaidhthe) before the Irish-language spelling reform of 1948, means a bearer of "old lore" (seanchas).

The Seanchaí goes on to tell Somerville the story of the Serpent once inhabiting Lough Cluhir, when Ivor was still living.

A longer account was fortunately preserved by Edith Anna Somerville, a native of the area, in the late 19th or early 20th century, who visited a local storyteller or seanchaí living by the lake.

Born in 1971 to an English father and Irish mother (whose grandfather was a seanchaí), he attended St Martins School in Northwood before moving on to Merchant Taylors' School.

This land of castles, glens, ghosts, poets and famous wandering storytellers (the seanchaí) has also been one of the most violent in Europe, where ethnic and religious wars have sown blood, hatred and resentment everywhere.

Members of the Celtic Revival such as Padraic Colum took a great interest in the art of the seanchaí, and through them the stories that they told were written down, published, and distributed to a global audience.

The distinctive role and craft of the seanchaí is particularly associated with the Gaeltacht (the Irish-speaking areas of Ireland), although storytellers recognizable as seanchaithe were also to be found in rural areas throughout English-speaking Ireland.

Unemployed and on the dole for several years, Dempsey was a regular visitor to the library in Donaghmede where he read about Irish history and developed a lasting appreciation for the "seanchaí" - the Irish storyteller.

The abbot and the monk eventually took over certain cultural roles of the aos dána (not least the roles of druí and seanchaí) as the oral culture of the Gaels was transmitted to script by the arrival of literacy.

Past performances there have included the well known 'seanchaí' Eddie Lenihan, who told of mythical battles involving the Fianna, as well as poetry recitals by Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Dan Keane and Cormac O'Leary.

The Seanchaí Literary Centre, which is adjacently located in a Georgian town house, will help visitors learn more about the castle's history and, according to the center coordinator, Cara Trant, the entire project should be of significant value to Listowel as a tourist attraction.

Mbin Mac Gabhann Benjamin Allan Schmidt 2015 France painter multiinstrumentalist palaeontologist, http://gallerymarvels.comMicí Mac Gabhann (November 22, 1865 Cloughaneely, County Donegal, Ireland - November 29, 1948) was a seanchaí and memoirist from the County Donegal Gaeltacht.

Cheques should be made out to Seanachie.

In their subject matter and techniques, the seanachie are considered the inheritors of the ancient Irish tradition of oral literature.

Conor McPherson owes his development as a writer very much to the Seanachie tradition.

See also seanachie.

He is an Initiated Wiccan Priest of the Welsh Tradition and holds the title of Seanachie from the Temple of Danaan.

After the intermission, the Calgary-based Celtic band Seanachie bounced on stage with a wee tune called "Mormond Braes" and a minor but amusing reference to the name.

Hector's role is one of an idealised Gaelic seanachie, his knowledge of his local area and history not limiting him in his dealing with universal issues such as greed and land rights.

As a former student of Frank McCourt's at Stuyvesant High School, I have to thank Robert Sullivan for capturing McCourt's humor and directness ("The Seanachie," Sept. 1).

According to the family seanachie MacVuirich, Reginald's brother Godfrey took possession of the former Clan Ruaidhri lands of Uist and those on the mainland, leaving Reginald's sons the lands in Lochaber.

Nothing definite is known of Eachann, yet the Sleat seanachie McVurich claimed that he had another son, Siothach an Dronan, who settled in Ireland and founded Clan Sheehy (MacSithigh) of Munster.

"A seanachie is a kind of Irish storyteller, and Frank has an element of the seanachie in him in that he can go on for hours in such a manner that he will eventually reduce you to gibberish.

In Ireland, the storyteller is called the Seanachie, an individual who roamed the country villages and maintained the culture's oral tradition, one that has influenced writers like Yeats, Beckett and Brian Friel, whose "Faith Healer" - a set of monologues delivered by three actors - is a prime example of the form.

Maybe we can visit the shanachie later, if there's time.

Why do you suppose we haven't heard from your shanachie?

Your shanachie means well, but she is ignorant of our true needs.

She should know better than to bark at the shanachie.

She was red with the embarrassment at the shanachie having to listen through a window to hear something going on in her house.

And how," he asked, "does your shanachie feel about the possibility of newly opened mine sites?

The man had said he was shanachie there, so Torkel's guess wasn't that wild.

A 2006 release by Shanachie featured three added bonus tracks.

Other labels, notably Shanachie, have issued some of his older recordings.

It is his first release for the Shanachie Records label.

Yet Shanachie, which was founded in 1975, has achieved success by developing artists who can deliver over the long term.

Shanachie Satok's business is with me and I've come to meet him.

For the same reason, Shanachie later moved to Newton.

The massacre where the Shanachie's boy was killed?

And all this because of your shanachie, eh?

Now you tell me you've banished the shanachie.

He founded the firm's quarterly, The Shanachie, at his own expense.

A commonly encountered English spelling of the Irish word is shanachie.

It is the first album the band has released on the label Shanachie Records.

Shortly afterwards, she also released a music video for the track through Shanachie Records.

But from these higher-profile videos, Shanachie's catalogue moves into less familiar territory.

But even while Shanachie pushes into newer territory, it appears committed to its long-standing audience.

I was supposed to meet Captain Fiske and the shanachie of this village here.

It is their second recording for the indie label Shanachie Entertainment.

It was officially released on June 1 by Shanachie Entertainment.