Genres: Folklore
Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), better known as Eddie Lenihan, is an Irish storyteller, author, lecturer, and broadcaster from County Kerry. Recognized as one of the last remaining seanchaithe (traditional lore-keepers) in Ireland, he has dedicated his life to collecting and sharing Irish folk tales, legends, and oral history.
Lenihan is a native of Brosna, County Kerry, Ireland, but currently resides in Crusheen, County Clare. His college education was at Saint Ita's College in Abbeyfeale, County Limerick and University College in Galway. He is a collector and preservationist of folk tales, recording stories told by older people as passed to them in oral tradition, and then distributing them to a wider audience via print, audio and filmed recordings.
Lenihan is known for his tales of Irish folk heroes, fairies, fallen angels, and other Paranormal beings as recorded in Irish mythology, folklore and oral history. He has also published poetry, stories about historical and legendary women of Ireland, and railroad history. In his role as a cultural preservationist he maintains the largest private collection of folklore in Ireland.
He first developed a reputation as a storyteller for children. But as his reputation began to grow, he began to appear in film, such as: The Fairy Faith, in a series of programmes on BBC radio, and at numerous high-profile folk festivals.
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