I express my belonging by the simple act of smiling at everyone I pass on the road each day, acknowledging fellow travellers no matter the species. My wildness expresses itself through being my own helmsman; forging my own path. May Samhain greet you all with a store of what nurtures you through the dark season 🎃
Thank you Kate, I love to hear the Irish language and the mix between English and Irish. The theme of belonging resonates deep with my experience. Thank you for that!☘☘🌛
Thank you so much for your commitment to storytelling and Irish history! Happy Halloween to you and all reading this. 🎃 May we be safe and together in community this winter!!
Lovely as always Ms. Cait -- the story was wonderful and was a revelation in that as soon as you began, I was right at the waterside watching the young man digging for eels -- that has to be a holy frequency whatever it is. As far as the belonging/otherness goes, as someone who makes art I would say the belonging comes in participating in something human beings have been moved to do as long as there have been any -- the otherness comes in because, whether I intend to or not, there is always something in what I make that defies being constrained by convention or symmetry or the so-called 'rules of composition' -- art, for me, is a safe space for the other world to come through :) 💚💙💜
Thank you for the lovely stories and the invitation at the end for belonging and wildness…I love it! I will contemplate how to bring both into my creative life. ❤ 🎃🧙♀️👻
So glad to have found you and your channel, just at this turn of the year, a turn whose mystery and magic.is becoming more interesting to me as time goes along. Wonderful story, and as ever.to hear new.(to me) insights into the Other Folk. Thank you!
I'm so happy I found you on my feed Kate!. I love the faeiry realm. I have two guardian fearies, Petunia and Wisteria. They bring so much joy, creativity, and playfulness so much Magick when they're around. 🧚♀️✨️🧚♂️✨️🧚♀️✨️
I grew up in the largely Irish American neighborhood of Cork Hill in Davenport, Iowa. Halloween was the best holiday filled with trick or treating, parties, ghost stories, decorations, pumpkin carving...the most spooky fun 🎃. Best memories
I've been to Ireland twice, both times in the decade of my sixties (which I'm still in). We spent time in the west and particularly loved Galway. These insights into the ancient traditions of its storytelling help me understand more clearly what might lie beneath an Enda Walsh plot, or what's lurking in the corner of a W. B. Yeats poem. So thank you! And Happy Halloween from Kathleen.
Oh this is so fun. I cannot imagine taking the gates off of a farm- it sounds like such a headache/nightmare. I like the idea of togetherness and wildness. So often I feel like it has to be a one or the other, but to braid them together is beautiful. Family, community, and being bold and sharing what I create (or creating something for others) are my togetherness. But I need the wildness of nature and thought to be with me always- if I give too much of myself away there's no spark to create with and the world becomes gray- like a filter’s been placed over it. Okay, I'm done rambling. Thank you for such a beautiful channel.
Thank you for the story (I like your take on it) and information about celebrations in Ireland during this season. I'm fascinated by the ways countries and cultures mark holidays around the world. I love how you share your creativity and how you encourage everyone to be creative too.
Oh, i am so happy to have found your channel. I'm fascinated with all things, celtic and all things that have to do with the fairy world. Though I was raised in America, my heart and ancestry is from the old country of Ireland. 💚🍀I truly feel as though I was born on the wrong continent!😕 i thoroughly enjoyed your stories this evening and hearing the old gaelic language being spoken. What a treat! I am now officially a new follower! Sending much aloha from the island of Maui.🌺
Thank you very much! I discovered your channel today and I really love! I love the Irish folklore and the myths and folklore in general. Today, here in Catalonia, we celebrate La castanyada. We eat roasted chestnuts and sweet potatos and panellets (a kind of sweet made of almond and sugar and covered with pine nuts). Traditionally, we gather together at night around a fire and we tell stories as we eat and drink sweet wine. I love this magic night, when fades i follets (fairy people) can be seen, and maybe some people of the other side, our loved who dead, come to visit us just to say they are well. ❤
My darling grandmother was full of such faerie stories and mischief. You’re dissertation is huge. Samhain in Australia is sunny and bright at this time as we move towards summer. I must leave something out for the faeries tonight to keep them friendly.
Thank you Kate so much Again a delightful glimpse into our wonderful folklore I just LOVE the way you bring the lore to life! In Irish! The presence of the other world really feels tangible right now, I’m just going to check my gate is closed before I go to bed! 🤔☘️ Interestingly I am thinking of joining a singing group today…
I repeatedly dream about being invited into fairy homes for dinner, and once also sitting down to a fairy banquet. I always wake up before the food is served, although on one occasion I know that a stew was on the menu because I was charged with setting the table and needed to put out soup bowls. 😁
My name is Kate, too! I live in Wales, and I love writing faerytales, poetry, and anything magical. I loved the story, my grand grand grandmother was from Ireland, and I have been trying to read upon Irish folklore as well as Welsh to understand my ancestry a bit more so, that I can write about it, I am not a fan of Halloween but I love your channel! Diolch Fawr.
Mer Cait, Oiche Shamna shona duit! So much wonderful material! It’s all so interesting to me. Fairy annoyance and fairy stroke, are such magical ways to think, and the Fairy boys, were they always men? Great story as well! Good thing the young loner had a kind mother! Go raibh maith agat! How will I join the circle of belonging? It’s true that creativity is often a solitary business, your amazing channel is one way to keep in contact, and the wildness, bring it on, that, I’m always searching for! 🧚♂🧜♀ Happy day! Sibeal
You LIVE that wildness and belonging, a Shibéal a stór! I love what you notice - that the kindness of the mother is really the key here, that link between a past kindness and a present kindness that helps a lonely young man find a second chance. This moves me so much. I'm so grateful to "see" you here, a chara dhil. Thank you with all my heart for your kindness and encouragement always. And Beannachtaí Oíche Shamhna duit! Bain sult as an oíche draíochta seo!
I'm curious about how far back Irish Folklore originated. I've also often wondered if the suffering of the Irish at the hands of the English up till the Potato famine and after produced more folklore.
I just found your channel, and while I celebrate Scottish heritage (and Scottish Gaelic), I love your content! Tha mi a’ guidhe Oidhche Shamhna bheannaichte dhut!
Hello! I just started following your station. I very much enjoyed this episode! Thank you! I would like to learn more. Can you please recommend a good book to learn more about Samhain history and folklore? I celebrate Samhain as I follow a Druid path but I never heard any of this and find it such a fascinating and rich history! ( I live in the U.S.A.)
Saturday next, the 2nd of November, All Saints day, i am going on a hill trek with like minded folks up Cnoc Aiste in County Westmeath. It is close to Uisneach where we climbed on the Eve of Michaelmas. 29 September. The light that day was limpid.🎉
I open the window, held my breath and plunged away from the chaos into the grown up s who never belonged. What is my identity? I am as wide as a widow in time an forever opening to the heart without knowing where I will fall. Maybe into the unconditional silence of freedom to be a wild flower.
I express my belonging by the simple act of smiling at everyone I pass on the road each day, acknowledging fellow travellers no matter the species. My wildness expresses itself through being my own helmsman; forging my own path. May Samhain greet you all with a store of what nurtures you through the dark season 🎃
Thank you Kate, I love to hear the Irish language and the mix between English and Irish. The theme of belonging resonates deep with my experience. Thank you for that!☘☘🌛
Thank you so much for your commitment to storytelling and Irish history! Happy Halloween to you and all reading this. 🎃 May we be safe and together in community this winter!!
Lovely as always Ms. Cait -- the story was wonderful and was a revelation in that as soon as you began, I was right at the waterside watching the young man digging for eels -- that has to be a holy frequency whatever it is. As far as the belonging/otherness goes, as someone who makes art I would say the belonging comes in participating in something human beings have been moved to do as long as there have been any -- the otherness comes in because, whether I intend to or not, there is always something in what I make that defies being constrained by convention or symmetry or the so-called 'rules of composition' -- art, for me, is a safe space for the other world to come through :) 💚💙💜
Thank you for the lovely stories and the invitation at the end for belonging and wildness…I love it! I will contemplate how to bring both into my creative life. ❤ 🎃🧙♀️👻
So glad to have found you and your channel, just at this turn of the year, a turn whose mystery and magic.is becoming more interesting to me as time goes along. Wonderful story, and as ever.to hear new.(to me) insights into the Other Folk. Thank you!
I'm so happy I found you on my feed Kate!. I love the faeiry realm. I have two guardian fearies, Petunia and Wisteria. They bring so much joy, creativity, and playfulness so much Magick when they're around. 🧚♀️✨️🧚♂️✨️🧚♀️✨️
I grew up in the largely Irish American neighborhood of Cork Hill in Davenport, Iowa. Halloween was the best holiday filled with trick or treating, parties, ghost stories, decorations, pumpkin carving...the most spooky fun 🎃. Best memories
Sounds wonderful - a real celebration!
I've been to Ireland twice, both times in the decade of my sixties (which I'm still in). We spent time in the west and particularly loved Galway. These insights into the ancient traditions of its storytelling help me understand more clearly what might lie beneath an Enda Walsh plot, or what's lurking in the corner of a W. B. Yeats poem. So thank you! And Happy Halloween from Kathleen.
Wonderful to hear about your holidays here in Ireland. Galway is still traditional and authentic. It is my heritage, so I am biased a little.
I'm so glad this is helpful for you in your work: thank you for telling me and Happy Halloween, Kathleen!
Thanks for the cool story and analysis. 👍🏻
A wonderful story, beautifully delivered!
Thank you so much! ❤️
Well done Kate. I enjoyed your work.
Oh this is so fun. I cannot imagine taking the gates off of a farm- it sounds like such a headache/nightmare. I like the idea of togetherness and wildness. So often I feel like it has to be a one or the other, but to braid them together is beautiful. Family, community, and being bold and sharing what I create (or creating something for others) are my togetherness. But I need the wildness of nature and thought to be with me always- if I give too much of myself away there's no spark to create with and the world becomes gray- like a filter’s been placed over it. Okay, I'm done rambling. Thank you for such a beautiful channel.
Thanks for that. I have been living in Donegal for 38 years. I am still writing and thinking and looking out to sea.
Thank you for the story (I like your take on it) and information about celebrations in Ireland during this season. I'm fascinated by the ways countries and cultures mark holidays around the world. I love how you share your creativity and how you encourage everyone to be creative too.
Oh, i am so happy to have found your channel. I'm fascinated with all things, celtic and all things that have to do with the fairy world. Though I was raised in America, my heart and ancestry is from the old country of Ireland. 💚🍀I truly feel as though I was born on the wrong continent!😕 i thoroughly enjoyed your stories this evening and hearing the old gaelic language being spoken. What a treat! I am now officially a new follower! Sending much aloha from the island of Maui.🌺
I love listening to your stories about a much happier world.
Blessed #Samhain.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Your words touch my heart. Thank you, and a blessed Samhain to you, too, a chara!
Thank you very much! I discovered your channel today and I really love! I love the Irish folklore and the myths and folklore in general. Today, here in Catalonia, we celebrate La castanyada. We eat roasted chestnuts and sweet potatos and panellets (a kind of sweet made of almond and sugar and covered with pine nuts). Traditionally, we gather together at night around a fire and we tell stories as we eat and drink sweet wine. I love this magic night, when fades i follets (fairy people) can be seen, and maybe some people of the other side, our loved who dead, come to visit us just to say they are well. ❤
@@amigadisadora that sounds like pure magic. Thank you so much for sharing these traditions with us here. So interesting and inspiring!
@@katechadbournebard🥰🥰
Excellent video kate
My darling grandmother was full of such faerie stories and mischief. You’re dissertation is huge. Samhain in Australia is sunny and bright at this time as we move towards summer. I must leave something out for the faeries tonight to keep them friendly.
All pagan.
Lovely presentation, Kate.
Thanks so much! ❤️
Thank you Kate so much
Again a delightful glimpse into our wonderful folklore
I just LOVE the way you bring the lore to life! In Irish!
The presence of the other world really feels tangible right now, I’m just going to check my gate is closed before I go to bed! 🤔☘️
Interestingly I am thinking of joining a singing group today…
@@valeriewatson5260 love that!!! More singing and JOY for you! Thank you so much for your very kind words ❤️
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I repeatedly dream about being invited into fairy homes for dinner, and once also sitting down to a fairy banquet. I always wake up before the food is served, although on one occasion I know that a stew was on the menu because I was charged with setting the table and needed to put out soup bowls. 😁
My name is Kate, too! I live in Wales, and I love writing faerytales, poetry, and anything magical. I loved the story, my grand grand grandmother was from Ireland, and I have been trying to read upon Irish folklore as well as Welsh to understand my ancestry a bit more so, that I can write about it, I am not a fan of Halloween but I love your channel! Diolch Fawr.
Hello my Welsh Kate sister who also loves fairytales and poetry! 😊 Diolch yn fawr iawn i ti!
Mer Cait, Oiche Shamna shona duit! So much wonderful material! It’s all so interesting to me. Fairy annoyance and fairy stroke, are such magical ways to think, and the Fairy boys, were they always men? Great story as well! Good thing the young loner had a kind mother! Go raibh maith agat! How will I join the circle of belonging? It’s true that creativity is often a solitary business, your amazing channel is one way to keep in contact, and the wildness, bring it on, that, I’m always searching for! 🧚♂🧜♀ Happy day! Sibeal
You LIVE that wildness and belonging, a Shibéal a stór! I love what you notice - that the kindness of the mother is really the key here, that link between a past kindness and a present kindness that helps a lonely young man find a second chance. This moves me so much. I'm so grateful to "see" you here, a chara dhil. Thank you with all my heart for your kindness and encouragement always. And Beannachtaí Oíche Shamhna duit! Bain sult as an oíche draíochta seo!
Go raibh míle maith agat Kate, grá ó Eire❤
@@JaneDoe-i1p beannachtaí agus grá leat! ❤️
I have no dought,,,, feary s are real " it's a battle between good and bad in Thier world,, wise's and unwise.🇮🇪
I have just found you and subscribed. Noson Calan Gaeaf Hapus from Wales
@@cerridwencottagediary9194 diolch yn fawr iawn!
❤️💙💚🌹I love you 🥰
I'm curious about how far back Irish Folklore originated. I've also often wondered if the suffering of the Irish at the hands of the English up till the Potato famine and after produced more folklore.
I just found your channel, and while I celebrate Scottish heritage (and Scottish Gaelic), I love your content! Tha mi a’ guidhe Oidhche Shamhna bheannaichte dhut!
@@BethRitterGuth go raibh céad míle maith agat agus gurb amhlaidh duit, a chara!
Hello! I just started following your station. I very much enjoyed this episode! Thank you! I would like to learn more. Can you please recommend a good book to learn more about Samhain history and folklore? I celebrate Samhain as I follow a Druid path but I never heard any of this and find it such a fascinating and rich history! ( I live in the U.S.A.)
Hooray and welcome! My favorite book on Irish calendar customs is “The Year in Ireland” by Kevin Danaher. Loaded with great lore and inspiration!
Oíche Shamhna. Kate. Saoirbhreathach ☘
Go raibh maith agat a chara!
Saturday next, the 2nd of November, All Saints day, i am going on a hill trek with like minded folks up Cnoc Aiste in County Westmeath. It is close to Uisneach where we climbed on the Eve of Michaelmas. 29 September. The light that day was limpid.🎉
Night visiting was part of my childhood. As real as breathing. We dunked the apples and those type of games. Ring in the cake etc. 🎉
The gate opening and the bush in the gap was real too. Sometimes the livestock got away. Causing problems for the farmer. 🎉
I open the window, held my breath and plunged away from the chaos into the grown up s who never belonged. What is my identity? I am as wide as a widow in time an forever opening to the heart without knowing where I will fall. Maybe into the unconditional silence of freedom to be a wild flower.
Whar about the solitude of the monks?
Tell me more. I’d like to understand
I have closed captions on and it keeps referring to Samhain as Sin. The season of sin… tbh, I’m a quite upset with this.