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| Sound recording, story; a folk tale, tale of fairies and legend from Ireland, told by Eddie Lenihan as part of the programme Stories of Faery Lore, in the Main Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 4 July 1999. | |
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| Comment from Eddie Lenihan about Ben Haggarty telling him to keep his stories short, followed by comment and story told by Eddie Lenihan and a closing statement by Ben Haggarty. Comment on life in Ireland, about suicide rates in Ireland and cilleen, the churchyards where unbaptised children and those who committed suicide are buried. This comment leads into a story about a cilleen, which Eddie heard from an elderly man in Ireland. | |
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| A story about a travelling weaver who comes to a town and is sold a fairy fort as a piece of farmland. Ignoring warnings from the villagers he grows potatoes on it. The land yields huge and perfect potatoes which ooze juice the colour of blood when cut with a spade. The weaver continues to dig regardless. The next day the weaver is found stinking and twisted in agony and dies. The weaver is buried in the cilleen. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 23 minutes, 13 seconds |
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| Performing in the Stories of Faery Lore programme were Daniel Morden, Eddie Lenihan, Ben Haggarty and Cat Weatherill. | |
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| Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around 2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales. Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post (the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995 festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey, Richard Berry and Michael Harvey. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Eddie Lenihan male / Irish |
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| storytelling:- |
Master of Ceremonies; Festival Co-Director: Ben
Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 / occupation performance storyteller; promoter |
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| origin:- | Ireland |
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| festival programme | |
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Daniel Morden
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| associated:- |
storyteller: Cat Weatherill
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| programming:- |
Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose |
| administration:- |
administrator: St Donats Arts Centre |
| storytelling:- |
St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Main Tent
04 Jul 1999 festival: Beyond the Border Festival Stories of Faery Lore |
| gift from:- |
St Donats Arts Centre |
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