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Racontour Archive - 2020 onwards
Racontour and friends
Society & Culture
426 episodes
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The Celtic Calendar
- Welcome to the Celtic Calendar
- Samhain overview
- Samhain and the Gates of Hell - PG
- The Morrígan
Best of Mary and Sean
- Saldanha's sole survivor
- Bogging
- Loughrymen
- Monty's Dad remembers
Lughnasa Folklore
- Lughnasa
- Who was Lugh?
- Fraughan Sunday
- The hungry month of July
Imbolc Folklore
- 1. Imbolc overview
- 2. Saluting Brigid
- 3. Brigid - a starting point
- 4. Gretta's Brigid overview
The Bluestack Way - Part Four
- BSW4 - 1. Leaving Ballybeg/Lughnasa
- BSW4 - 2. The Harvest Fair
- BSW4 - 3. The view of the mountains
- BSW4 - 4. Metal bridge/Diarmuid
The Bluestack Way - Part Three (alternative route)
- BSW3A 1. Glacial deposit
- BSW3A 2. The hungry month
- BSW3 3. Heather, bees and views
- BSW3A 4. Geology of the valley
The Bluestack Way - Part Three
- BSW3 1. Daybreak in Drimarone
- BSW3 2. St. Brigid's Day
- BSW3 3. Approaching a sacred site
- BSW3 4. Songs of the area
The Bluestack Way - Part Two
- BSW2 1. Ascending the valley
- BSW2 2. Eagles' dens and ancient paths
- BSW2 3. The North East range
- BSW2 4. Eglish valley
Best of J.P. Bradley
- Me an' me Da (living in Drumlister)
- 17. MH - Crawford the henman
- 10. Border Tales - dexterous swine
- 15. MH - dinner in the day!
Myths and legends
- Fetch
- Half-hanged McNaughton
- Grey man's path
- Bram Stoker's Sligo
Inishowen with Dessie McCallion
- DMcC Starting point of Inishowen
- DMcC Sloblands reclamation
- DMcC Tips on travelling through fields
- DMcC King's Grave, Inch island
Best of Dessie McCallion
- 16. DHS - Grianan of Aileach
- 12. BF The lore of the hare
- DMcC Samhain - all hail the hazel!
- 7. BF Hawthorn, fire and fairies
Samhain Folklore
- Cailleach
- DMcC Samhain - Derry at Halloween
- DMcC Samhain - Illies and the banshee
- DMcC Samhain - all hail the hazel!
Enchanted Mountain Tales
- EMT - Sliabh Bawn's history
- EMT - Waterloo and Wellington
- EMT - where once the Shannon flowed
- EMT - fairies and the Otherworld
The Bluestack Way - Part One
- BSW1 The Diamond
- BSW1 The Hiring Fair
- BSW1 Famine graveyard
- BSW1 Eske river
Fairy Lore in Ireland
- Fairy folk
- Ring forts
- 5. TTC - fairies
- 7. BF Hawthorn, fire and fairies
Donegal's Hallowed Sites
- Welcome to Big Country
- Donegal overview
- Donegal's hallowed sites
- 1. DHS - the Drowes river and the first salmon
Bertie Bryce vol. 2 - master of the macabre PG
- 1. BBG Poltergeists PG
- 2. BBG - The Fire Stoker
- 3. BBG - Bob's dead
- 4. BBG - mystery of the wrench
Bertie Bryce vol. 1 - storyteller supreme
- 1. BB Burglar Boy
- 2. BB Killilea knickers
- 3. Border Tales - the Free State Farmer
- 4. BB Carndonagh cattle
Rambling House - the complete series
- 1. MH - introduction
- 2. MH - the blizzard hits
- 3. MH Preparing for the Winter in the 1940s
- 4. MH Chores and comfort