CMP Special 17b Spring Holiday 2010 Part 2

04/09/10 • 68 min

Great 18th Century Scots story and The Isle of Many Gods

This is the second half of our Spring Seasonal Special. You can hear the second half of our epic 18th century tale from Scotland - the Wife or the Wuddy, four great pieces of music, a listener poem and a truly informative piece from the book, The Isles of Many Gods by David Rankine and Sorita D'Este.

Full Show-notes, with all credits, can be found on our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/spring2010b

Running Order:

Intro 0:41
News & Views 1:17
To Drive the Cold Winter Away by Samantha Gillogly 04:04
The Isle of Many Gods, Pt.1 by David Rankine & Sorita D'Este 6:52
Believe by Jenna Greene 13:15
The Wife or the Wuddy by John Mackay Wilson 19:30
Dagda by Andrew Hinkinson-Hodnett 44:15
The Isle of Many Gods, Pt.2 by David Rankine & Sorita D'Este 46:45
The Greenwood Grove by Damh the Bard 54:55
Promo - Digital Magic by Philippa Ballantine 1:01:16
Nines by the Pentacle Drummers 1:03:06
Out-takes 1:06:08

We hope you enjoy it!

Gary & Ruthie x x x

Released: 9th April 2010, 1h 9m

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News & Views

We talk some of the new features that can be found on the website. First, there's the Confused...? Start Here page and we ask if you have any better ideas for names for this page. We also mention that we've got a Skype answerphone set up so that you can leave messages for us or possibly talk to us if we're here. Add 'celticmythpodshow' to your contacts list and you can leave a message for us. If you want the message to be personal and not go on the air, just say Personal message and we'll respect that. :)

We also mention that we have added a 'Donate' button to the front page as several people have asked us to do. We thank Colleen and James for their gifts so far. It really is much appreciated - it helps us save up to fix broken equipment that much quicker. Thank you so much! :)

We also mention that we've been nominated for the European Podcast Awards in the hope that you might feel inclined to vote for us. You can vote once per day if you wish. The nominations stage closes at the end of July, we believe, and the results aren't announced until September.

To Drive the Cold Winter Away

by Samantha Gillogly

Sam is a fabulous artist and frequent contributor to the show. Here she has played 'To Drive the Cold Winter Away' for us and we read her favourite verse for her in the show and print it below. When not practicing, performing, or composing, Gillogly’s off hours are spent writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and experimenting in painting, drawing and calligraphy. She is a published writer in multiple formats, and has been a contributing critic to The Green Man Review, an online arts and culture magazine, and now writes on Celtic Arts and Culture for Examiner.com. Her favourite culinary pursuit is brewing her infamous triple-espresso c...

Great 18th Century Scots story and The Isle of Many Gods

Full Show-notes, with all credits, can be found on our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/spring2010b

Running Order:

Intro 0:41
News & Views 1:17
To Drive the Cold Winter Away by Samantha Gillogly 04:04
The Isle of Many Gods, Pt.1 by David Rankine & Sorita D'Este 6:52
Believe by Jenna Greene 13:15
The Wife or the Wuddy by John Mackay Wilson 19:30
Dagda by Andrew Hinkinson-Hodnett 44:15
The Isle of Many Gods, Pt.2 by David Rankine & Sorita D'Este 46:45
The Greenwood Grove by Damh the Bard 54:55
Promo - Digital Magic by Philippa Ballantine 1:01:16
Nines by the Pentacle Drummers 1:03:06
Out-takes 1:06:08

We hope you enjoy it!

Gary & Ruthie x x x

Released: 9th April 2010, 1h 9m

It's always great to hear from you! Email [email protected], or leave us a message using Speakpipe

News & Views

To Drive the Cold Winter Away

by Samantha Gillogly

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CMP Special 18 St Patrick's Day Special

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a Triad of super Poems

Let's celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a short collection of poems (not recipes!) and all of our good wishes for the Next Year. We do so with a very small celebration for St Patrick's Day on March 17th. We bring you three poems that are typically Irish - they deal with Harps, Shamrocks and St. Patrick's Birthday! Then we head off to the pub for some of the black stuff!

Full Show-notes, with all credits, can be found on our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/patrick

Running Order:

Intro 0:40
The Legend of Ireland's Magic Harp by Author Unknown 01:52
The Four-Leaved Shamrock by Samuel Lover 3:42
St Patrick's Birthday by Samuel Lover 5:58
Out-takes 1:06:08

We hope you enjoy it!

Gary & Ruthie x x x

Released: 17th March 2010, 10m

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The Legend of Ireland's Magic Harp

This beautiful and magical poem, sadly of author unknown, makes a lovely start to our show. The original can be found on Old Irish Poems and Dizzy Boy. We did find a reference on liceogilvaniu.it that attributes it to (Carlo Calzolari, 3^B internaz.) - but we're not sure what that means.

The Four-Leaved Shamrock

by Samuel Lover

Samuel Lover (February 24, 1797 Dublin – July 6, 1868) was an Irish songwriter, novelist, as well as a painter of portraits, chiefly miniatures. He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert. Samuel was born at number 60 Grafton Street and went to school at Samuel Whyte's at 79 Grafton Street, now home to Bewley's cafe. By 1830 he was secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and lived at number 9 D'Olier Street.

Lover produced a number of Irish songs, of which several — including The Angel's Whisper, Molly Bawn, and The Four-leaved Shamrock — attained great popularity. This short biography came from Wikipedia and the poem itself from Old Irish Poems.

St Patrick's Birthday

by Samuel Lover

Saint Patrick (Latin: Sanctus Patricius, Irish: Naomh Pádraig) (c. 387 – 17 March, 493;) was a Romanized-Celt, a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognised patron saint of Ireland (although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints).

By the eighth century he had come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland. The Irish monastery system evolved after the time of Patrick and the Irish church did not develop the diocesan model that Patrick and the other early missionaries had tried to establish.

Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) is a yearly holiday celebrated on 17 March. It is named after Saint Patrick (circa AD 387–461), the most commonly recognized of the patron saints of Ireland. It began as a purely Catholic holiday and became an official feast day in the early 1600s. However, it has gradually become more of a secular celebration of Ireland's culture.

For more information, check out the Wiki entries for Saint Patrick and St. Patrick's Day and the poem itself from Old Irish Poems.

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CMP Special 19 Damh the Bard Interview

We chat with the Mythic Folk Musician and Druid, Damh the Bard

This is our first interview and we are lucky to be able to interview the famous Celtic Folk musician, Damh the Bard, and his wife, the multi-talented Artist Cerri Lee. Links to their websites and their work can be found below in the Show-notes. We also bring you an amazing competition for Damh's latest album, Tales from the Cowman as well as some astounding news about the revival of a national tradition in Ireland - the Festival of the Fires taking place on Beltane.

Full Show-notes, with all credits, can be found on our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/bardinterview

Running Order:

Intro 0:42
News & Views 1:25
The Festival of the Fires 1:58
Twa Corbies by Damh the Bard 04:15
Damh the Bard Interview 7:54
Blodeuwedd by Damh the Bard 29:24
The Cauldron Born by Damh the Bard 45:51
Pagan Spirit Gathering 1:02:19
Cerri Lee 1:05:48
Grimspound by Damh the Bard 1:17:57
Competition 1:23:00
Spirit of Albion by Damh the Bard 1:24:19
Out-takes 1:28:44

We hope you enjoy it!

Gary & Ruthie x x x

Released: 30th April 2010, 1h 31m

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The Festival of the Fires

Our fabulous news item introduces the Festival of Fires which is a resuscitation of the ancient fires of Tara that were lit on the Hill of Uisneach and the taken from County to County to ignite all of the fires in Ireland. Originally known as Bealtaine, the summertime festival was an important fixture on the worldwide calendar, attracting attendees from the four corners of the ancient world. Having not being officially celebrated in hundreds of years the festival is to return, rising from the ashes of the Bealtaine name as Festival of the Fires. It promises to be an event unlike anything ever witnessed in modern times - an iconic national celebration to truly ignite the summer. Created through the alchemy of ceremony, heritage, music, theatre, literature, arts, crafts, poetry, holistic health and sustainability.

Festival of the Fires will feature the collective talents of hundreds of participants drawn from all over Ireland and the world, gathering at the exact centre-point of Ireland to celebrate the onset of summer.

One of the ceremonial highlights of the festival will be the lighting of a national fire, ignited first on the summit of Uisneach and then carried to hilltops in every one of Ireland's 32 counties. In ancient times, this sacred Uisneach fire was the catalyst for coast-to-coast celebrations with festivals and gatherings taking place in the fire sites, and in the communities below.

You can find out more about the festival on the website at http://festivalofthefires.com/.

Twa Corbies

by Damh the Bard

A classic folk track, the Twa Corbies or 'two crows', given the Damh the Bard magical treatment for the new Crowman album.

Damh the Bard Interview

(Pronounced 'Dave')

Damh is a musical storyteller who works within the world of myth that cannot be proved; where the Faerie really do dance on Midsummer's Eve, where the trees talk, and the Hollow Hills take you into the realms of Annwn. Where the Goddess rides her horse, guiding you to magic, and the Horned God of old calls us from the shadows of the Greenwood. [