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Racontour Archive - 2020 onwards

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426 episodes / 24.9K listens

The Celtic Calendar

Welcome to the Celtic Calendar
Samhain overview
Samhain and the Gates of Hell - PG
The Morrígan

Best of Mary and Sean

Saldanha's sole survivor
Bogging
Loughrymen
Monty's Dad remembers

Lughnasa Folklore

Lughnasa
Who was Lugh?
Fraughan Sunday
The hungry month of July

Imbolc Folklore

1. Imbolc overview
2. Saluting Brigid
3. Brigid - a starting point
4. Gretta's Brigid overview

The Bluestack Way - Part Four

BSW4 - 1. Leaving Ballybeg/Lughnasa
BSW4 - 2. The Harvest Fair
BSW4 - 3. The view of the mountains
BSW4 - 4. Metal bridge/Diarmuid

The Bluestack Way - Part Three (alternative route)

BSW3A 1. Glacial deposit
BSW3A 2. The hungry month
BSW3 3. Heather, bees and views
BSW3A 4. Geology of the valley

The Bluestack Way - Part Three

BSW3 1. Daybreak in Drimarone
BSW3 2. St. Brigid's Day
BSW3 3. Approaching a sacred site
BSW3 4. Songs of the area

The Bluestack Way - Part Two

BSW2 1. Ascending the valley
BSW2 2. Eagles' dens and ancient paths
BSW2 3. The North East range
BSW2 4. Eglish valley

Best of J.P. Bradley

Me an' me Da (living in Drumlister)
17. MH - Crawford the henman
10. Border Tales - dexterous swine
15. MH - dinner in the day!

Myths and legends

Fetch
Half-hanged McNaughton
Grey man's path
Bram Stoker's Sligo

Inishowen with Dessie McCallion

DMcC Starting point of Inishowen
DMcC Sloblands reclamation
DMcC Tips on travelling through fields
DMcC King's Grave, Inch island

Best of Dessie McCallion

16. DHS - Grianan of Aileach
12. BF The lore of the hare
DMcC Samhain - all hail the hazel!
7. BF Hawthorn, fire and fairies

Samhain Folklore

Cailleach
DMcC Samhain - Derry at Halloween
DMcC Samhain - Illies and the banshee
DMcC Samhain - all hail the hazel!

Enchanted Mountain Tales

EMT - Sliabh Bawn's history
EMT - Waterloo and Wellington
EMT - where once the Shannon flowed
EMT - fairies and the Otherworld

The Bluestack Way - Part One

BSW1 The Diamond
BSW1 The Hiring Fair
BSW1 Famine graveyard
BSW1 Eske river

Fairy Lore in Ireland

Fairy folk
Ring forts
5. TTC - fairies
7. BF Hawthorn, fire and fairies

Donegal's Hallowed Sites

Welcome to Big Country
Donegal overview
Donegal's hallowed sites
1. DHS - the Drowes river and the first salmon

Bertie Bryce vol. 2 - master of the macabre PG

1. BBG Poltergeists PG
2. BBG - The Fire Stoker
3. BBG - Bob's dead
4. BBG - mystery of the wrench

Bertie Bryce vol. 1 - storyteller supreme

1. BB Burglar Boy
2. BB Killilea knickers
3. Border Tales - the Free State Farmer
4. BB Carndonagh cattle

Rambling House - the complete series

1. MH - introduction
2. MH - the blizzard hits
3. MH Preparing for the Winter in the 1940s
4. MH Chores and comfort

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