The History of Irish Storytelling: Telling Stories as Cultural Heritage and Social Identity
In Gaelic culture, narrating a story has never been a minor pastime; it has been a respected discipline, a mechanism for preserving collective memory, and the cornerstone of social cohesion. Long before written literature was established in the British Isles, Ireland already had a highly professionalized system of oral transmission known as the seanchaí (the guardian of traditional stories).
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