Established 1995
Dates in Irish Myth and Legend
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"The babe in the cradle knows about the dragon. He needs the stories to
know about St. George."
"Folktales are the right shape to fit into the mind, and be remembered."
"Folk tales are ageless. Rooted in antiquity, reborn with each new
telling,
[About children listening to adult stories:]
"Stories ain't never done no harm to nobody. And if they don't do no good, how come they last so long?"
[About telling scary stories to children:] "A story is a safe place to confront fears and experience thrills."
"You are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed you are."
Books
the late P.L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins books
G.K. Chesterton (paraphrased from his essay "The Red Angel" in Tremendous Trifles, 1909)
Tim Sheppard
they address that part of us which does not change as we
move through our lives.
Adults feel youthful, children feel grown-up.
We listen, time changes, and we become ageless too."
Tim Jennings, from his cassette Weatherbeard and Other Folk Stories
"Most of life is over the
heads of little kids. Looking up at it is how they grow."
Tim Jennings
Uncle Remus, from the Disney film Song of the South
June Barnes-Rowley, Australian storyteller
La Agrado in the Almodóvar film Todo Sobre Mi Madre