Well - whew! Get ready for this week's episode, Storyshapers, because it's a whirlwind of mythology, folklore, history, archaeology and magic, all thanks to the enthralling Ellen Ryan. Ellen is a journalist and author, who likes to spend time visiting archaeological sites, researching the richness of Ireland's folklore, mythology, and history, and creating fantastic, inclusive, immersive, and lovingly constructed tales and retellings of some stories we might *think* we know... Come on a wander through the landscape of old Ireland with Ellen, and find out how she's Storyshaped.
Find Ellen online at her agent's website: https://belllomaxmoreton.co.uk/childrens-fiction/ellen-ryan
Books mentioned in this week's episode include Ellen's own:
Girls Who Slay Monsters (ill. Shona Shirley MacDonald)
Gods Don't Cry (ill. Conor Merriman)
And the stories that have shaped her include:
Under the Hawthorn Tree, by Marita Conlon-McKenna
The work of Siobhan Parkinson
Flight of the Doves, by Walter Macken
The Milly McCarthy series, by Leona Forde
The Hounds of the Morrigan, by Pat O'Shea
The work of Patricia Lynch
The Táin, ed. and modernised by Thomas Kinsella, illustrations by Louis le Brocquy
The Corpus of Electronic Texts (The UCC CELT Project)
The Book of the Elders, eds. Ann Dooley and Harry Rowe
The work of John Carey, medievalist and language scholar
esp. Magic, Metallurgy, and Imagination in Medieval Ireland, by John Carey
The work of Daniel Curley, archaeologist and guide at Rathcroghan Royal Site and Visitor Centre)
Ireland's Immortals, by Mark Williams
The work of Miranda Green
The Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, ed. Miranda Green
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