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  • June at the Gab

    Before we take our summer hols in July, you can join us in June.

    🎯June Sketchbook: Tuesday 3 June 8.30pm Blarney Castle Hotel

    The Sketchbook is an intimate storytelling workshop, a place for tellers and potential tellers to play with stories. A place to tell, listen and learn.

    Please get in touch, thegabstorytelling@gmail.com, if you want to attend

    ✨June Mixtape: Tuesday 17 June 8.30pm Callanan’s George’s Quay

    The Gab Mixtape is a monthly entertaining evening of storytelling where storytellers hone their storytelling craft. Stories are interspersed with a little music, but the spotlight is very much on the art of the oral tradition and contemporary craft of telling stories. The Mixtape has a pre-planned set list, it is not open mic.

    Our last mixtape before the summer in our perfect Cork City home, Callanan’s. Doors open at 8pm, get in early if you want to get a seat! 

  • The Gab at Blarney Community Choir Summer Concert ‘Through the Decades’

    Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/blarney-community-choir-summer-concert-through-the-decades-tickets-1299310395369

    We are thrilled to be invited to tell stories at Blarney Community Choir’s summer concert, a fun family friendly sing-along show, ‘A Musical Journey Through the Decades’ , 1950’s to modern day with a live house band!

    Saturday May 24th Show – Doors open at 6:45 , show starts at 7:30, show length approx. 1 hr and 15 mins

    Sunday Matinee May 25th Show, Doors open at 12:45, show starts at 1:30.

  • The Gab presents Story Trio – Sharon O’Neill, Vincent Kiely and Brendan O’Sullivan with uilleann piper Stephen O’Brien

    Tickets €24 (including booking and venue fee) https://tickets.peoplesrepublicofcork.com/11176339

    Following on from our first 3 sold out nights in Coughlan’s in early 2025 we present three storytellers – Sharon O’Neill, Vincent Kiely and Brendan O’Sullivan. Music on the night will be from uilleann piper Stephen O’Brien. 

    Vincent Kiely is from Moyne near Thurles in Tipperary. He is a lover of what he calls “creative oral storytelling”. Vince’s stories are full of adventure, imagination and often a touch of madness. 

    Sharon O’Neill has a passion for traditional tales with a modern tongue-in-cheek twist. She brings great wit and energy to telling hilarious personal stories, epic myths and ancient legends. 

    Brendan O’Sullivan is an award winning storyteller. He draws much of his material from the rich local and family lore he experienced growing up in Kerry. He tells his stories in a unique and captivating style. 

    Music on the night will be played by piper Stephen O’Brien, who hails from Kells, Co. Meath. He has been playing the uilleann pipes and various whistles since he was a youngster. 

    Doors 7.30pm, Storytelling starts at 8pm
    Tickets €20 (plus €4 booking & venue fees)

  • Storytelling performance with Clare Murphy – Sun 23 March – Blarney

    SOLD OUT

    Recent article about Clare Murphy in the Irish Examiner https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41574286.html

    Both the workshop and performance with Clare Murphy are now sold out

    Telling stories since 2006 on stages all over the world, including the Globe Theatre London, Open Eye Theatre Minneapolis, and Fabula Festival Sweden, Clare brings the ancient art of storytelling to contemporary audiences including a recent appearance on the Blindboy Podcast https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/the-art-of-storytelling

    On the Art of Storytelling podcast, Blindboy said “one of my favourite guests I’ve ever spoken to on my podcast, a professional storyteller, deeply knowledgeable and passionate about storytelling as an art-form and an astounding storyteller”.

    Clare’s work ranges from myth to quantum physics and folklore. She performed for President Mary Robinson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the writers at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her festival appearances include Cape Clear Festival Ireland, Beyond the Border Wales, National Storytelling Festival Jonesborough USA, 10 Days in Dublin and many others.

    “masterly storytelling  – all delivered at a pace which meant there was never a dull moment.” Culture Whisper

    “Clare Muireann Murphy’s beautiful lilting Irish voice was in stark contrast to the darkly humorous stories she told us, and her first-rate comic physicality only served to enhance her storytelling.” Everything Theatre

  • Storyteller Clare Murphy – workshop & performance

    We are very excited to be brining Clare Murphy to Blarney in March 2025 for a workshop and performance. You can register here in advance https://forms.gle/CD9XPRTr54yZCSh7A

    Workshop | Saturday 22 March 2025 | 9am – 4pm

    Performance | Sunday 23 March 2025 | 8pm

    Venue: Church of the Resurrection Blarney

    Telling stories since 2006 on stages all over the world, including the Globe Theatre London, Open Eye Theatre Minneapolis, and Fabula Festival Sweden, Clare brings the ancient art of storytelling to contemporary audiences including a recent appearance on the Blindboy Podcast https://shows.acast.com/blindboy/episodes/the-art-of-storytelling

    On the Art of Storytelling podcast, Blindboy said “one of my favourite guests I’ve ever spoken to on my podcast, a professional storyteller, deeply knowledgeable and passionate about storytelling as an art-form and an astounding storyteller”.

    Clare’s work ranges from myth to quantum physics and folklore. She performed for President Mary Robinson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the writers at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her festival appearances include Cape Clear Festival Ireland, Beyond the Border Wales, National Storytelling Festival Jonesborough USA, 10 Days in Dublin and many others.

    “masterly storytelling  – all delivered at a pace which meant there was never a dull moment.” Culture Whisper

    “Clare Muireann Murphy’s beautiful lilting Irish voice was in stark contrast to the darkly humorous stories she told us, and her first-rate comic physicality only served to enhance her storytelling.” Everything Theatre

  • The Gab Christmas Special

    Looking forward to returning to the Church of the Resurrection, Blarney on Sunday 29 December for our annual Christmas Special. We will be joined by Berrings Church Choir. This is a free event. You can sign up for a free ticket here if you wish https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-gab-christmas-special-tickets-1109260039639

    Please bring some change for our collection for Dogs for the Disabled https://dogsfordisabled.ie/

  • SOLD OUT – The Gab presents storytelling with Diarmuid O Drisceoil featuring Deirdre O’Mahony and music From Trip The Light

    An evening of STORYTELLING for GROWN-UPS

    Doors 7.30pm, storytelling starts at 8pm.

    Diarmuid O Drisceoil has been telling stories for as long as he can remember! He draws his material from the Irish and European folk traditions, as well as from his own life experience. His stories feature everything from mad kings, vomiting priests and inept blacksmiths, to Johnny Cash and a host of picaresque characters, all told with great energy and humour.

    Deirdre O’Mahony is a founding member of the Gab Storytelling. Always the first to start the sing-song, she has been developing as a storyteller with the Gab in recent years. The traditional folk tale has been fertile ground for Deirdre to hone her telling skills and she loves to bring magical worlds to life through stories.

    Trip the Light – Caroline Sweeney and Wayne McSweeney are a guitar-playing, singing duo from East Cork, covering favourites from the 1960s to present day as well as their own original material.