Éamon a Búrc

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Éamon a Búrc,1866-1942, tailor and Irish storyteller.

Born in Carna, Co. Galway, a Búrc spent part of his childhood in the USA. The Encyolopaedia of Ireland states: "He was perhaps the finest storyteller collected from in the twentieth century. The longest folk-tale ever recorded in Ireland - taking three nights to tell and amounting to more than 30,000 words - was collected from him."


[edit] See also

  • Seanachaí

[edit] Source

"The Encyclopaedia of Ireland," 2003; ISBN 0 7171 300 2.

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