Enchanting storytelling event taking place next week invites Tipperary locals to attend
The writer of the show Terri Ryan hopes that Tipperary locals attend the show, promising them an evening of storytelling and a celebration of folklore.
Author and professional Storyteller Terri Ryan, who is a fourth generation Ryan from Mitchelstown, will be bringing her very own one woman show to Mitchelstown next week.
Speaking to Tipperary Live, Terri says she hopes locals from Tipperary come and see the show.
"I hope to do a show in Tipperary and other counties after this one and hope locals in neighbouring towns in Tipperary come along and see the show," says Terri.
"The stories are not a look at the historic life of a town. They are something softer, and deeper in many ways. They are not imagined or detailed, but from moments that were lived and passed down in kitchens and gatherings at the heat of turf fires.
"Stories remembered on long walks and whispered from the memory of one generation to the next and shared to the collective memory of a community to bring heart, soul and an extra smile back to a place.
"Stories of conversations with shopkeepers of old and the clink of coins on counter tops. The music, romance and courtships in ballrooms. The excitement of children playing on the street, in raised voices filled with laughter. A shadow cast over the mountains when murder happens over land.
"The shovel of Traditional Irish Culture served on the Fair Day. The potato shaped Grandmothers of old and their Handbags.
Terri says that stories stay in the stones and soil of a place, weaving a layer of intrigue and imagination that lingers in the bend of the roads and the moss-covered walls.
"They become part of the air that we breathe, and give us the swag in our walk," she says.
This performance continues the long Irish tradition of oral storytelling, celebrating folklore, heritage, and the spark of Irish wit.
Stories written by the Seanchai Terri Ryan are offered with care and respect—for those who lived the stories. Memories and fragments of a place’s soul, gathered, honoured, and told with the hope they will live a little longer in the telling.
'Echoes of the past' takes place at St Georges Heritage Centre in Mitchelstown on October 24, bringing a collection of stories, written from Terri’s treasury of events and memories of where she grew up in the small town in County Cork.
The event is also available to Book on Eventbrite or by phone on 087 469 6913.
Dates and venues for future shows will be available soon.