fairies

This week on Fireside, is The Faerie Horses – a folk tale from the county of Cavan about the love between siblings and the dangers of Irish peat bogs... also Faeries and their horses. Get in touch with the show on Kevin’s Instagram and…

On unlucky episode 13 of Fireside, Kevin tells the folk tale of a change in fortune for a young hunchback boy, who gets mixed up with the other folk. There's some music, and even a bit of the Irish language! Get a glimpse into the life…

This week on Fireside, we hear a fairy story of a tobacco obsessed farmer who goes on a journey to find his precious smoke. A journey that takes him all the way to America! This is... The Tobacco Quest Find out about your Fireside Bard,…

Nigel Quinlan's new children's novel The Cloak of Feathers was published by Hachette in January.  Here he talks about the process and memories that led him to writing the book. When I grew up in rural Ireland, there were remote, desolate…