Sheehans Storytelling Cottage

05/05/2026

Have you plans made for the August Weekend? The craic will be MIGHTY in Finugue from 31st July to the 3rd August.

If you have a song or a story that needs an audience, if you want to explore why the Irish Session is so popular, if you want to meet & join our best singers & Storytellers. Then why are you waiting? Sign up now & we'll see you on the August weekend!

As we head into the May Bank Holiday weekend, there’s no better time to put pen to paper ✍️

🎶 Competitions for the Sean McCarthy Festival are now OPEN! 🎶

From ballads to storytelling, we invite you to be part of a festival that celebrates the very heart of Irish tradition, song, and spoken word.

So take a quiet moment this weekend, gather your thoughts, and let the words flow… you never know where they might lead. With online entries available for the first time, it has never been easier to enter 📖🎤🎶✍️

📩 Full competition details available on our website http://www.finugeweekend.com

28/04/2026

Shane Ibbs is one of our regular visitors from the UK - always welcome here with his great talent telling! This is the kind of quality storyteller that visits his neck of the woods!

May all the stories & all who tell them & all who listen live hale & hearty lives! ❤️🔥

Some fabulous stories and singing by guest teller Ulrika Igraine at Tales On The Teign, storytelling club this afternoon. Ulrika is mixed heritage, part Swedish, part Peruvian. We had stories and ballads from both cultures. One of the Swedish stories came from Ulrika's Grandmother. There was also other great stories from the floor. I got to tell my version of Cap O Rushes, a fairly new story for me, still finding its place on my tongue.

22/04/2026

Oh we REALLY wish we were there - but we look forward to tuning in on www.worldstorytellingcafe.com this evening!

We are proud to partner with Sheehans Storytelling Cottage & Kerry Writers Museum in this great project.

Omar Belaarej our Storyteller in Residence collaborated with Story From Seeds - Maria Gillen to build this Story Bridge across time & space. Last year Omar went to the Listowel Storytelling Festival in Kerry & this year Maria is back in World Storytelling Café.

They are now also joined by Jim Brule so that the Story Bridge extends now to the USA as well.

Join us at the World Storytelling Café Wednesday 22 April at 6pm to hear stories that connect us & a discussion about what that means.

21/04/2026

We are very proud of our close partnership with Kerry Writers Museum and the great work our two Storytellers in Residence do together. Story From Seeds - Maria Gillen & Frances Kennedy (SIR with Kerry Writers Museum).

Through their plotting, planning & love of story Omar Belaarej has become part of our Kerry Storytelling Chlann, Shane Ibbs might as well move here & Jim Brule of New York is about time get the Céad Míle Fáilte hundred Thousand Welcomes.

As well as this Maria has connected us with amazing story partners World Storytelling Cafe in Marrakech, Africa, Woodstock Story Festival in New York, de Canada in Canada & many more where the conversations are just starting!