Candlelit Tales

Narrated Folklore Anthology

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Candlelit Tales

We are a group of storytellers, performers, and musicians. We tell Irish myths to a live audience with live music.

Candlelit Tales was founded by brother-sister storytelling duo Aron and Sorcha Hegarty. Driven by a passion for Irish mythology, we started retelling the stories to a near-empty room upstairs in a Dublin pub one rainy evening in November. The next week, the room was a lot less empty, and we were joined by musician Ru O’Sé. By the fourth week, the room was full, and so was the hall outside. We realised that when we share our passion, it becomes contagious. And we’ve been telling stories and playing music from that day to this.

Since then, over [the] years of telling stories in the capital of this nation of storytellers, we have developed and refined our uniquely expressive, naturalistic and modern style. Live music is the heartbeat of all our performances, and a live original music score composed by a team of talented musicians drives the rhythm of the stories.

This podcast is a mixture of storytelling and discussion segments.

Listen to a Sample

Episode 01 – Shadows of the Táin – Part 1 (Whelans Live) Candlelit Tales Irish Mythology Podcast

We released our first podcast on our 4 year anniversary as a company. We started, as we did in the winter of 2014, with the story of ‘An Táin Bo Culaigne’. So feast your ears on this inaugural two-part episode. This show was recorded live in Whelans on the 22nd of October, 2018, to a sell-out audience. We developed this show in 2016 with the help of all of these lovely people (in no particular order): Emmet Byrne Catriona Loughlin Aoife Nyan Kavanagh Angel Hannigan Marie Denham Megan Woods Lucy Smyth Julie Browne Antonella Scanu Audrey Trainor Darragh Kenny Oisin Ryan Jay Lambert Dean Saunders John Dennehy https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=6762832