Ready To Be Real by Síle Seoige
Jun 29, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
In this weeks Real Take from my conversation with musician, performer and storyteller Aindrias de Staic...he talks about the ancient Irish bardic storytelling tradition and why play is so good for our…
Aindrias de StaicGuest
Síle SeoigeHost
I think I'm very lucky now, you know, if you pardon the pun, but I have a few strings to the bow.
I've, I finished the house in Clare, so I have people come down at weekends.
I have groups of 10 or 12 people that'll come down for a weekend, and we learn the style of storytelling that I do.
But everything I teach, I might have learned, oh, God, I learned that as a TV presenter.
Jeez, I learned that in theater on the West End of London, or jeez, I learned that through doing music gigs, or I learned that from doing pubs, or I learned that because, you know, 毕竟如此之精彩 and we use that word, or I learned that in San Francisco.
I'm very lucky that what I bring now to the, the storytelling is, even though it's traditional Irish storytelling, it has come in that ro- finding that path under the briars.
You know, you're at the crossroads between music, theater, comedy, cabaret, TV, media, et cetera.
And somewhere not on it, there's a road, there's a place in Clare called The Hand, 'cause that's where five roads come together.
But even within those five roads, I'm still finding this other road under the briars, through the ditches, crossing over.
You know, sometimes you, in the bog, you cross over a ditch with a small bit of wood, and you might still fall in the ditch, but you find yourself at the other end.
So I think that's, I'm still finding that path through the briars, you know?
I think I'm very lucky now, you know, if you pardon the pun, but I have a few strings to the bow.
I've, I finished the house in Clare, so I have people come down at weekends.
I have groups of 10 or 12 people that'll come down for a weekend, and we learn the style of storytelling that I do.
But everything I teach, I might have learned, oh, God, I learned that as a TV presenter.
Jeez, I learned that in theater on the West End of London, or jeez, I learned that through doing music gigs, or I learned that from doing pubs, or I learned that because, you know, 毕竟如此之精彩 and we use that word, or I learned that in San Francisco.
I'm very lucky that what I bring now to the, the storytelling is, even though it's traditional Irish storytelling, it has come in that ro- finding that path under the briars.
You know, you're at the crossroads between music, theater, comedy, cabaret, TV, media, et cetera.
And somewhere not on it, there's a road, there's a place in Clare called The Hand, 'cause that's where five roads come together.
But even within those five roads, I'm still finding this other road under the briars, through the ditches, crossing over.
You know, sometimes you, in the bog, you cross over a ditch with a small bit of wood, and you might still fall in the ditch, but you find yourself at the other end.
So I think that's, I'm still finding that path through the briars, you know?
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