Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
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This podcast is about linking landscape with stories and exploring how people in the Irish countryside connected, reality with the spiritual.
Stories and folklore of place change, when the tellers become collectors instead of living the experience. The re-interpreted stories in parallel with the landscapes reclaiming, the social geography of the place, its collective memory, and interlinking..
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
7M ago
Welcome to this guided meditation, there are as many ways to meditate as there are people in the world, what works for you works for you. For me the natural world and how we exist within it are universally connected, we are part of the universe and it is part of us. walk with me as you are guided through this meditation listening to my voice "Martin Matthews" allow yourself to move gently and deliberately through your own natural universe, accessing that, sense of calm we all have within. There is no right way or wrong way to partake in this meditation there is only your way. If people have qu ..read more
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
7M ago
The final episode in the series, when we encounter water how does it impact on us in the landscape. Feel free to contact me on mrtnmatthews@gmail.com to leave a comment or a critique even suggestions for further shows . the next podcast series will concentrate on the people and how they interacted with the landscape as individuals  ..read more
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
7M ago
Natural resources people and stone have their uses while there is a demand. Land scape is a definite history of where we have come from not necessarily a map of where we going ..read more
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
7M ago
Changes in the landscape are a representation of the changes in our way of life, the only permeance in either is the awareness of impermanence.   ..read more
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
7M ago
Ribbons of overgrown stone lined lanes, now lay empty a silent witness to the passing of time. Who lived in houses nestled between stone walls? what way did the people live? This weeks episode is a snapshot in time one such individual. Dobbin a farmer as important in the area as any one stone in a random rubble wall is. the wall being much less secure if it did not exist ..read more
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
7M ago
Observing with curiosity the fields and country side we walk in. will invariably lead us to many questions, but, few answers. In this episode, I am looking at the phenomenon of a pond known as the sweat pond. A story told with a very dim memory of, a long forgotten local knowledge. However with a little bit of research sweat huts and sweat ponds it appears have been a feature in Ireland for centuries. stories dismissed as folklore and fairy tales can and do have an element of truth.  ..read more
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
7M ago
Stories of the land scape, by Martin Matthews Outcast Theatre Productions ..read more
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
7M ago
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
1y ago
Welcome to this guided meditation, there are as many ways to meditate as there are people in the world, what works for you works for you. For me the natural world and how we exist within it are universally connected, we are part of the universe and it is part of us. walk with me as you are guided through this meditation listening to my voice "Martin Matthews" allow yourself to move gently and deliberately through your own natural universe, accessing that, sense of calm we all have within. There is no right way or wrong way to partake in this meditation there is only your way. If people have qu ..read more
Folklore Stories of the Irish landscape
3y ago
The final episode in the series, when we encounter water hoe does it impact on us in the landscape. Feel free to contact me on mrtnmathews@gmnail.com to leave a comment or a critique even suggestions for further shows . the next podcast series will concentrate on the people and how they interacted with the landscape as individuals  ..read more