Bid the Unbiddable, a Story by Fiona Doris | S6 Ep4

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OUR STORY

The story of a wild and wonderful girl named Bid, who was born of a long, powerful line of Brigids. Love, loss, and magic all woven together that becomes a song of Ireland itself.

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OUR GUEST

A self-described lapsed botanist, Fiona Doris is a mythologist and a storyteller. She is a member of the Bard Mythologies team, acting as a storyteller and facilitator since 2020.

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OUR CONVERSATION

• In these dark times, we’re looking for answers, but it’s all there in the stories. It’s just a matter of remembering and telling them, not just in Ireland, but across cultures. The answers are in the land, when we connect to our roots.
• Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, translated as Graveyard Clay - a 1949 novel that captures conversation between a number of the newly dead
• Fiona’s story of discovering her father was a fluent Gaeilgeoir (Irish speaker)
• Botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s work, To Speak for the Trees, the last to receive druidic training
• The beauty of orality, and the tricky dance with written culture.
• The grandmother in the story, Biddy O’Leary embodied three great expressions of Irish women’s culture and magic: bean feasa, the wise woman; bean ghlúine, the handy woman or midwife; and bean chaointe, the keener.
• Fiona’s dream: revive the tradition of collecting folklore, as they did with the 1930s Schools’ Collection, and gather stories from every generation
• People are storied. The stories have always been there, and we mine them. The work is to get out of the way of the story, acting as a midwife.

Music at the start of the show is by Beth Sweeney and Billy Hardy: billyandbeth.com

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