Best Marisa Goudy Podcasts (2024)

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Magic Illuminates the Mundane: a story of Flidais by Regina de Búrca | S5 Ep7 59:37

2d ago59:37

59:37

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Calling All Writers & Creatives:…

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The Inheritance of the Not-Chosen People, a story of Cessair by Sandy Dunlop | S5 Ep6 46:20

16d ago46:20

46:20

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Calling All Writers & Creative: …

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Being Human Is a Habit that Can be Broken: A Story of Mannanán by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue | S5 Ep5 58:55

30d ago58:55

58:55

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Calling All Writers & Creative: …

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Bardic Return: Poems by Aisling Fraser | S5 Ep 4 1:00:40

1M ago1:00:40

1:00:40

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Calling All Writers & Creative: …

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The Coming of the Sons of Mil, a story by Brian Walsh | S5 Ep3 1:03:44

2M ago1:03:44

1:03:44

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Reweave Your Own Myths Join us o…

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Achtan: A Brave Mother’s Tale, featuring Karina Tynan | S5 Ep2 58:37

2M ago58:37

58:37

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Meet Achtan, a druid’s…

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Patrick + Sheelah Forever (Maybe) | S5 Ep1 51:21

4M ago51:21

51:21

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our on our Substack newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Did Sa…

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Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn | S4 Ep12 36:24

6M ago36:24

36:24

Write With Us in 2024 Do you want to write your own memoir or simply make more space for self-expression in the new year? Join Marisa in the Writers' Knot, our online writing community. Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Fin…

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My Life As a Prayer with Elizabeth Cunningham | S4 Ep11 42:46

7M ago42:46

42:46

Write With Us in 2024 Do you want to write your own memoir or simply make more space for self-expression in the new year? Join Marisa in the Writers' Knot, our online writing community. Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes…

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Tell Me My Story with Dimple Dhabalia | S4 Ep10 40:12

7M ago40:12

40:12

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Dimple Dhabalia reads to us from a later section of her forthcoming book, Tell Me My Story—Challenging t…

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Divine Embodiment with Eleanora Amendolara | S4 Ep9 34:20

7M ago34:20

34:20

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Eleanora Amendolara shares an excerpt from her book Divine Embodiment: The Art & Practice of Chumpi Illu…

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The Last Sovereignty Goddess | S4 Ep 8 1:06:36

8M ago1:06:36

1:06:36

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story In Ireland’s Forgotten Goddess Queen-Queen-Witch (S4 Ep7), you met Mongfind. She’s best known from her r…

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Ireland’s Forgotten Goddess-Queen-Witch (Re-Release) | S4 Ep7 35:26

8M ago35:26

35:26

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Meet Mongfind, the Sovereignty Goddess who appears in the Book of Lecan, a medieval Irish manuscript com…

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Fite Fuaite: Interwoven, A Story by Jen Murphy | S4 Ep6 47:58

8M ago47:58

47:58

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Fite Fuaite, the Irish for “interwoven.” Jen Murphy weaves a vast cloak of wisdom and culture. Less a st…

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A Sacred Detour to Iona, A Story by Royce Fitts | S4 Ep5 50:54

8M ago50:54

50:54

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and hear the supporter-only podcast between episodes on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Iona. This island in the Scottish Hebrides is only three miles long, but it's home to millennia of spiritual, cultural, and natural…

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Birth, Death, and Rebirth: A Story of the Goddess Lilith | S4 Ep4 49:30

9M ago49:30

49:30

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Lilith was a goddess or a demon, depending on whose holy books or sacred folk tradition you follow. Pear…

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Miriam's Sensual Universe with Sophie Strand | S4 Ep3 47:22

9M ago47:22

47:22

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Sophie’s new novel, The Madonna Secret, offers a lush, ecological exploration of the gospel stories of J…

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Danu: Rise of the Mother, a story by Laura Murphy | S4 Ep2 1:09:58

9M ago1:09:58

1:09:58

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Laura Murphy returns to KnotWork for the third time with a tale of the Irish goddess Danu that is part c…

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For the Guides, Gods, and Ancestors | S4 Ep1 20:48

9M ago20:48

20:48

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Join us in the Autumn Writers’ Knot! Let the Guides, Gods, and Ancestors Lead Your Creative Journey - Register for the online writing program that begins on Se…

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The Cauldron of Inspiration: A Story of Ceridwen & Taliesin | S3 Ep15 30:53

1y ago30:53

30:53

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Ceridwen of Wales was a powerful sorceress with a hand for potions and a ferocious amount of mother love. Her magical cauldron was blessed with “awen…

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Niall of the Nine Hostages, A Story by Mari Kennedy | S3 Ep14 58:24

1y ago58:24

58:24

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY: Niall of the Nine Hostages was an Irish king and the first sovereign of the powerful Uí Néill dynasty. Mari Kennedy’s telling of the story begins with the bi…

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The Women of the Grail, told by Tara Wild | S3 Ep13 55:50

1y ago55:50

55:50

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The twelfth century poet Chrétien de Troyes gives us the story of Perceval, a holy fool from the wild woods who visits the court of the Fisher King and eventu…

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The Curator's Mythology with Owen King | S3 Ep12 43:58

1y ago43:58

43:58

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story According to the New York Times, Owen King’s new novel The Curator is “a horror-tinged historical fantasy set in a city upended by revolution." Owen joins us …

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Two Worlds, Two Women: A New Perspective on the Mad Sweeney Story | S3 Ep11 48:29

1y ago48:29

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Our Story In Season 2 of KnotWork Storytelling, Marisa Goudy took Seamus Heaney’s translation of the Irish medieval epic poem, Sweeney Astray and crafted Lost in the Wild, At Home Within: A Story of Mad Sweeney. In that retelling of a pagan warrior king driven into exile by a saint’s curse, there wasn’t time to explore the women’s stories. This tim…

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Bride and the Cailleach: A Scottish Story told by Katy Swift | S3 Ep 10 55:12

1y ago55:12

55:12

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Katy Swift shares a story of Scotland’s creation and the cycle of the seasons, featuring the Cailleach, the goddess of winter, and Bride, the goddess of sprin…

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When Tides Rise, Build Your Own Boat: Cessair’s Arrival in Ireland | S3 Ep9 49:54

1+ y ago49:54

49:54

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Ireland doesn’t have a creation story, but it does have Lebor Gabála Érenn, the Book of Invasions. The first invasion was led by Cessair, a granddaughter of N…

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The Look of the Scots Gaelic Language: Stories About Race & Kinship | S3 Ep8 53:48

1+ y ago53:48

53:48

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Three stories from Turtle Island - from Antigonish in Nova Scotia, Alaska, and the Cape Fear River in North Carolina - speak to expectations of race, ethnicit…

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Driftwood Man, A Story by Dee Mulrooney | S3 Ep7 57:32

1+ y ago57:32

57:32

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story “Driftwood Man” is a timeless tale of longing and belonging, existential homesickness and ultimately coming home that is both deeply Irish and unmistakably gl…

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In the Company of the Banshee with Caoimhe Nic Giollarnáth | S3 Ep6 45:26

1+ y ago45:26

45:26

Please Support Our Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story As the film, the Banshees of Inisherin receives awards across the world, we explore stories of the bean sí, the Irish fairy woman who was considered a harbinger of dea…

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The Power of Pillow Talk: The Story of Queen Medb | S3 Ep 5 54:05

1+ y ago54:05

54:05

Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The “Pillow Talk” scene opens theTáin Bó Cúailnge, the Irish mythological epic. Queen Medb and King Ailill compare the wealth they brought to the marriage. This private conve…

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The Buried Moon, Told by Mitlé Southey | S3 Ep4 46:28

1+ y ago46:28

46:28

Please Support Our Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our story Mitlé Southey retells a classic story from her childhood home, the Fens of East Anglia, collected by Mrs. M.C. Balfour from the 1890s. The moon becomes trapped in a ma…

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Choosing the Mystery: The Rosary’s Radical Feminine Heart with Perdita Finn | S3 Ep3 52:27

1+ y ago52:27

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Our Story In recent years, the rosary has been used to shame and restrain women and sexuality, but what if it is actually the umbilical cord that connects us to The Mother? Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story I…

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Art, Love, God: The Tragedy of Líadan and Cuirithir | S3 Ep2 57:12

1+ y ago57:12

57:12

Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Líadain and Cuirithir’s romance is the stuff of medieval tragedy. Two bards fall in love, but Líadain makes a choice that alters their shared fate. They end up at a monastic …

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Brigid: Rebirth of the Mother, a Story by Laura Murphy | S3 Ep1 57:51

1+ y ago57:51

57:51

Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The goddess Brigid is known to be a daughter of Dagda, “the Good God.” But who was her mother? Inspired by the mythology and her own intuitive imagination and imbas forosnai,…

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Three Goddesses Walk Into a Bar | S.2 Ep.15 27:20

1+ y ago27:20

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Our Story Marisa reads an excerpt from her 2020 book, The Sovereignty Knot, in which she imagines three Irish goddesses, Brigid, the Morrígan, and the Cailleach all walk into a bar and have a chat about what women really want. After the story, Marisa explores: Marisa reads an excerpt from her 2020 book, The Sovereignty Knot, in which she imagines t…

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Fierce Tenderness: Stories of the Cailleach told by Kate Chadbourne | S2 Ep14 55:28

1+ y ago55:28

55:28

Our Story The Cailleach is the longest living supernatural woman in the Celtic tradition. This goddess is a world builder who consorted with kings and is still associated with the landscape today. Our guest, Kate Chadbourne, brings us a story from County Mayo about a man who chose to test himself by setting out on a walk with the Cailleach. She wea…

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Mysteries and Holy Wells By Elizabeth Stack | S.2 Ep.13 52:32

1+ y ago52:32

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Our Story This trio of stories about holy wells, faith, and illness traces the evolution–or perhaps the devolution–of folk belief and the power ascribed to sacred waters and places. Our guest Elizabeth Stack begins with two stories from Tipperary: a teenaged boy cured at St. Patrick’s Well in Clonmel and a weeping statue of Mother Mary in Templemor…

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Ethne and the Cauldron of Hospitality | S.2 Ep.12 58:44

1+ y ago58:44

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Our Story Before Ethne became a queen of Tara and married Cormac mac Airt, she was a foster child to Buchet, a man known for his tremendous hospitality. In this story, Marisa Goudy imagines Ethne’s perspective on this 12th century Irish tale. Our Guest Elizabeth Shaw is an author, consultant, speaker, and facilitator who brings her core philosophie…

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Walking in the Footsteps of a Legend, A Personal Story by Christian Bolden | S.2 Ep.11 33:00

1+ y ago33:00

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Our Story In a departure from our usual format, our guest Christian Bolden tells a personal story of visiting Ireland for the first time as a graduate student. He describes his experience as an African American in Dublin in 2016, a moment when three events captured attention: the US presidential election, the killing of Alton Sterling, and the deat…

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The Fenland Lanterns: An Autumn Story from East Anglia by Robyn Watt | S 2 Ep 10 47:22

2y ago47:22

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Our Story This is a story of a cheerful, fearless farmhand named Fred who lived in the Fens, the marshy, bogs of East Anglia. He was at home in himself and on the land, and that attracted the jealousy of the other young men on the farm. This story, inspired by a tale called "The Syleham Lamps," collected in Kirsty Hartsiotis’s Suffolk Folk Tales, f…

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Deirdre, Who Is So Much More Than Her Sorrows | S.2 Ep. 9 59:38

2y ago59:38

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Our Story The story of Deirdre or the Exile of the Sons of Uilsliu is a pre-tale of the Táin, the greatest epic in Irish mythology. At her birth, Deirdre is prophesied to bring ruin to Ulster. It is a tale of a despotic king, love at first sight, betrayal, and includes a brief mention of suicide. Our Guest Melinda Laus is a grief counselor and educ…

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Life and Death on the Farm Atop the Hill: A Story of an Irish Cailleach | S.2 Ep.8 52:01

2y ago52:01

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Our Story There’s a long, strange tradition in Irish mythology and folklore in which a powerful man tries to steal a valuable cow from an old woman (cailleach). Maybe it’s not so strange… It’s just one more example of how independent older women are considered a threat to the status quo. Marisa Goudy tells the story of Mona, the Cailleach who lived…

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Bóinn Re:membered: A Story of Poetic Inspiration by Laura Murphy | S 2 Ep 7 1:01:34

2y ago1:01:34

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Our Story This original story of the Irish goddess Bóinn was written by Laura Murphy and is being offered for the first time here on KnotWork Storytelling. Laura takes what we have from the medieval manuscripts from the Christian monasteries and then follows her own divine inspiration, or the imbas forosnai you’ll hear so much about in our conversa…

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Lost in the Wild, At Home Within: A Story of Mad Sweeney | S 2 Ep 6 49:56

2y ago49:56

49:56

Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our on our Substack newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The ta…

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Bright And Obscure: Stories of the Irish Goddess Áine with Jen Murphy | S. 2 Ep. 5 47:54

2y ago47:54

47:54

Our Story A Irish sovereignty goddess whose origins lie with the mythical Tuatha Dé Danann, Áine is also a sun deity, a bean sidhe (woman of the Sí), and fairy queen. Our guest Jen Murphy comes to KnotWork with a collection of Áine tales. In a story from the mythological period, Áine has an ill-fated meeting with the unjust king Aillil Ólomm, who s…

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Launching Ships: A Story of Helen of Troy | S. 2 Ep. 4 37:14

2y ago37:14

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Our Story Storyteller Maura McMahon offers us a clip from her show, Launching Ships: A User's Guide for Your Face. She took to the stage at Green Kill Art Center in Kingston, NY in spring 2022 and was accompanied by musician David Gonzalez. You’ll hear the events in the final moments of the Trojan War, as that infamous horse full of Spartan warrior…

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Landscape, Lovers, and Mycelial Consciousness: The Story of Tristan and Isolde with Sophie Strand | S. 2 Ep. 3 47:24

2y ago47:24

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Our Story Probably the precursor to the King Arthur tales, the story of Tristan and Isolde includes star-crossed lovers, castles and the wilds, as well as questions of loyalty, duty, and truth. The versions we can access today are set in a fractionated England in the time after Roman rule. Ireland, still unconquered just across the sea, is key to t…

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Maeve, the Celtic Magdalen, Finally Comes to Call with Elizabeth Cunningham | S. 2 Ep. 2 49:16

2y ago49:16

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Our Story You must meet Maeve, the Celtic Magdalen, the heroine of the four novels in Elizabeth Cunningham’s The Maeve Chronicles. From her beginnings on the Celtic Island of Women Tír Na mBán, to “Druid School” on the Isle of Mona, and then on to Rome, the Galilee, southern France, and then back to Britain when Queen Boudicca of the Iceni was batt…

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Tansy Field At Midnight: A 2,000 Year Old Abortion Story | S. 2 Ep. 1 24:18

2y ago24:18

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OUR STORY Your KnotWork Storytelling host, Marisa Goudy, reads a brief excerpt from her novel-in-progress, Above In the Bog. You meet two women of first century Ireland, Móna and Síle, who are out collecting tansy on a dark moon summer night. Their mission: gather the herbs to help a woman in their village abort an unwanted child. OUR EXPLORATION M…

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The Heroine At the Crossroads: The Story Is the Knot | Ep 15 23:56

2y ago23:56

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Our Story “Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor” appear in a ballad from the 17th century that has been passed across Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada, and the US for centuries. Marisa Goudy’s retelling of the tale is inspired by a version collected in the 1930s Irish Schools Collection of Folklore, found at Duchas.ie. It’s the tale of a love triangle wi…

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