Seanchaí

She would've been queen in all but name in Southern Ireland.

This family that's all about the Seanachie and the arts and culture.

She would've been absolutely brilliant in that role, and maybe just now a name in a genealogy, but my goodness, what a much happier life, um-

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... forwards and bring it out so that people know what it is or they know what went on, or they know what kind of practices there were, and they know the stories and the legends and the various things that exist around certain places.

So, um, in a way, uh, the story writing tradition is a, you know, the Seanachai tradition as it's called in Irish, that story writing and storytelling tradition is in several of the events.

We have, uh, events all over Fingal, so we have them all over Dublin 15, but then they're in also in places like Rush, and Howth, and Swords, and Balbriggan, and Skerries.

Uh, Fingal was chosen as one of seven, uh, local authority areas where there would be a Home of Halloween festival.