Sheehans Storytelling Cottage

25/09/2026

It was wonderful to welcome the lovely Yoshio Aki-Tadhg Takahata to Listowel & Finugue as past of the Listowel Storytelling Festival 2026!

Here he shares an ancient Japenese tale with our Storyteller in Residence translating it to English in a Story Tandem.

We hope you make it back to visit us soon again Yoshio!

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24/09/2026

Frances Kennedy is a stalwart of the local traditions of storytelling & singing in the North Kerry area. Here is a snippet of her wonderful story about a rampant goat in the roses that she charmed our International storytelling visitors from New York, Morocco, Japan, Chez Republic, UK & Ireland with.

For this and other stories from Frances check out our YouTube Channel Sheehans Storytelling Cottage 😊🙏🌹 & if you are ever down our way be sure to drop into our Rambling House.

Frances Kennedy is a well known storyteller & singer based in Listo...

22/09/2026

What an AMAZING international gathering around our little fire in Sheehans Storytelling Cottage for the project. Jim Brule gave us a wonderful tale about an honourable thief! It is now up on our YouTube channel, check out SheehansStorytellingCottage on YouTube. In the meantime let us know in the comments below what you think of this snippet from the New York Teller!

22/09/2026

What a treat! Story From Seeds - Maria Gillen welcomed tellers from America, Morocco, Japan, Chez Republic, UK & Ireland to our 300 year old Cottage as part of her story project

Jimmy Deenihan was there to meet them and Frances Kennedy gave them a beautiful history of the cottage, a local story and rip roaring song from Sean McCarthy to see them on their way!

Each one of them left a story or a poem for pur growing YouTube channel of session delights so watch this space in the coming days!

21/09/2026

Jimmy Deenihan welcomed the Storytellers to Sheehans Storytelling Cottage this morning. Our Storyteller in Residence Story From Seeds - Maria Gillen hosted tellers from New York, Japan, Morocco, the UK & the Chez Repunlic while we had Irish Tellers from.Cork, Kerry & Limerick.

Look.out over the coming days as we post their story offerings on our page❤️🔥

21/09/2026

Today the Storytellers are coming to Sheehans Storytelling Cottage to add their voice to the stories in the walls of our 300 year old Storytelling Cottage!

Here they are with Billy Keane who hosted them.at the world famous John B. Keane's pub in Listowel!

Tellers from.Japan, Morocco, the Chez Republic, New York & the UK will be around our little fire telling stories in Finuge today!

20/09/2026

Wonderful project, knitting countries together through stories ❤️🙏😊

19/09/2026

Culture Night & our Storyteller in Residence Story From Seeds - Maria Gillen - Storyteller led a tapestry of tales from tellers in Kerry Writers Museum who hailed from Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, USA, UK and all over Ireland. The session then moved on to Christy's where the fun continued late into the night.😊🙏👏