Episode 16
A Storyteller, A Story Listener with Rab Fulton | S5 Ep16
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OUR STORY
Rab Fulton brings us “a healing story” with its roots in 19th century Ireland. A stranger comes to northern Galway, and he doesn’t know how to be with the land or honor the stories and traditions of this new land. Thanks to a foolish choice, and a bit of magic, the man eventually becomes an integral part of the community.
OUR GUEST
Rab Fulton is a Galway-based Scottish/Irish storyteller, author, and educator. Along with with Kerry Graham, Rab is the host of The Celtic Tales Chronicles podcast.
His books include West of Ireland Folk Tales for Children and Galway Bay Folk Tales.
You can find Rab telling stories upstairs in the Crane Bar in Galway’s West End every Thursday evening. Get your tickets in advance - they often sell out!
Follow Rab on instagram @celtictalesgalway for details on upcoming events, including the storytelling project 'Growing With Stories' with Amelia Perez.
Find more about Rab on LinkedIn and at www.celtictalesgalway.com
OUR CONVERSATION
- Rab tells a 200 year old story that speaks to our 21st century questions: How we deal with our anger? What’s possible when we commit to resolving our conflicts? How do we welcome the stranger and how do we honor traditions when we come to new places?
- What the new immigrants to Ireland bring to this land and how we weave new people into the Irish narrative.
- The burdens of single definitions of what nationalities are - we contain multitudes. Neither Scottish nor Irish society have ever been homogeneous. Galway, a port city that was essentially an English city, was a very diverse city, and that diversity still carries on today.
- Rab’s many years of storytelling at the Crane Bar and some insight into being a working storyteller.
- Growing up in Glasgow in a working class family with a duality of language speaking Scots, a cousin of English sometimes called “bad English.” The only Scottish history Rab was told was about the land clearances, an act of ethnic cleansing, and it was framed as a good economic practice.
- Why do we tell stories? Never underestimate the power of sheer pleasure!
- It’s as important to be a story listener as it is to be a storyteller.
- Check out the KWS episode featuring another Scottish storyteller Katy Swift: Bride and the Cailleach, S3 Ep 10
Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com
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