In each KnotWork Storytelling episode, we'll explore a different story from mythology, folklore, or history, particularly from Ireland and the Celtic World. Then, my guest and I dive deep into why these ideas and characters still resonate today. Your host is Marisa Goudy, author of The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. She is a Myth Worker, a Story Healer, a Writing Coach, and a has an MA in Irish literature from University College Dublin. Join us as we wand ...
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Molly's Story by Erica O'Reilly | S5 Ep11
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Language, Idea, Metaphor, Myth: Poetry by Adam Wyeth | S5 Ep10
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A Mother’s Love, A Mother’s Sacrifice: Tailtiu and Lugh | S5 Ep9
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A Story Waiting to Be Untangled: Our Lady, Undoer of Knots | S5 Ep 8
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Magic Illuminates the Mundane: a story of Flidais by Regina de Búrca | S5 Ep7
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The Inheritance of the Not-Chosen People, a story of Cessair by Sandy Dunlop | S5 Ep6
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Being Human Is a Habit that Can be Broken: A Story of Mannanán by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue | S5 Ep5
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Bardic Return: Poems by Aisling Fraser | S5 Ep 4
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The Coming of the Sons of Mil, a story by Brian Walsh | S5 Ep3
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Achtan: A Brave Mother’s Tale, featuring Karina Tynan | S5 Ep2
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Patrick + Sheelah Forever (Maybe) | S5 Ep1
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Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn | S4 Ep12
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My Life As a Prayer with Elizabeth Cunningham | S4 Ep11
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Tell Me My Story with Dimple Dhabalia | S4 Ep10
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Divine Embodiment with Eleanora Amendolara | S4 Ep9
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The Last Sovereignty Goddess | S4 Ep 8
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Ireland’s Forgotten Goddess-Queen-Witch (Re-Release) | S4 Ep7
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Fite Fuaite: Interwoven, A Story by Jen Murphy | S4 Ep6
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A Sacred Detour to Iona, A Story by Royce Fitts | S4 Ep5
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Birth, Death, and Rebirth: A Story of the Goddess Lilith | S4 Ep4
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Miriam's Sensual Universe with Sophie Strand | S4 Ep3
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Danu: Rise of the Mother, a story by Laura Murphy | S4 Ep2
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For the Guides, Gods, and Ancestors | S4 Ep1
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Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Join us in the Autumn Writers’ Knot! Let the Guides, Gods, and Ancestors Lead Your Creative Journey - Register for the online writing program that begins on Se…
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The Cauldron of Inspiration: A Story of Ceridwen & Taliesin | S3 Ep15
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Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and stay connected between seasons on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story Ceridwen of Wales was a powerful sorceress with a hand for potions and a ferocious amount of mother love. Her magical cauldron was blessed with “awen…
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Niall of the Nine Hostages, A Story by Mari Kennedy | S3 Ep14
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Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. OUR STORY: Niall of the Nine Hostages was an Irish king and the first sovereign of the powerful Uí Néill dynasty. Mari Kennedy’s telling of the story begins with the bi…
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The Women of the Grail, told by Tara Wild | S3 Ep13
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The Curator's Mythology with Owen King | S3 Ep12
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Two Worlds, Two Women: A New Perspective on the Mad Sweeney Story | S3 Ep11
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Our Story In Season 2 of KnotWork Storytelling, Marisa Goudy took Seamus Heaney’s translation of the Irish medieval epic poem, Sweeney Astray and crafted Lost in the Wild, At Home Within: A Story of Mad Sweeney. In that retelling of a pagan warrior king driven into exile by a saint’s curse, there wasn’t time to explore the women’s stories. This tim…
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Bride and the Cailleach: A Scottish Story told by Katy Swift | S3 Ep 10
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When Tides Rise, Build Your Own Boat: Cessair’s Arrival in Ireland | S3 Ep9
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The Look of the Scots Gaelic Language: Stories About Race & Kinship | S3 Ep8
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Driftwood Man, A Story by Dee Mulrooney | S3 Ep7
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In the Company of the Banshee with Caoimhe Nic Giollarnáth | S3 Ep6
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The Power of Pillow Talk: The Story of Queen Medb | S3 Ep 5
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The Buried Moon, Told by Mitlé Southey | S3 Ep4
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Choosing the Mystery: The Rosary’s Radical Feminine Heart with Perdita Finn | S3 Ep3
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Our Story In recent years, the rosary has been used to shame and restrain women and sexuality, but what if it is actually the umbilical cord that connects us to The Mother? Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story I…
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Art, Love, God: The Tragedy of Líadan and Cuirithir | S3 Ep2
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Brigid: Rebirth of the Mother, a Story by Laura Murphy | S3 Ep1
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Support the Show on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Support the show, find the in-depth show notes, and get even more stories on our Substack, Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The goddess Brigid is known to be a daughter of Dagda, “the Good God.” But who was her mother? Inspired by the mythology and her own intuitive imagination and imbas forosnai,…
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Three Goddesses Walk Into a Bar | S.2 Ep.15
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Our Story Marisa reads an excerpt from her 2020 book, The Sovereignty Knot, in which she imagines three Irish goddesses, Brigid, the Morrígan, and the Cailleach all walk into a bar and have a chat about what women really want. After the story, Marisa explores: Marisa reads an excerpt from her 2020 book, The Sovereignty Knot, in which she imagines t…
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Fierce Tenderness: Stories of the Cailleach told by Kate Chadbourne | S2 Ep14
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Our Story The Cailleach is the longest living supernatural woman in the Celtic tradition. This goddess is a world builder who consorted with kings and is still associated with the landscape today. Our guest, Kate Chadbourne, brings us a story from County Mayo about a man who chose to test himself by setting out on a walk with the Cailleach. She wea…
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Mysteries and Holy Wells By Elizabeth Stack | S.2 Ep.13
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Our Story This trio of stories about holy wells, faith, and illness traces the evolution–or perhaps the devolution–of folk belief and the power ascribed to sacred waters and places. Our guest Elizabeth Stack begins with two stories from Tipperary: a teenaged boy cured at St. Patrick’s Well in Clonmel and a weeping statue of Mother Mary in Templemor…
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Ethne and the Cauldron of Hospitality | S.2 Ep.12
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Our Story Before Ethne became a queen of Tara and married Cormac mac Airt, she was a foster child to Buchet, a man known for his tremendous hospitality. In this story, Marisa Goudy imagines Ethne’s perspective on this 12th century Irish tale. Our Guest Elizabeth Shaw is an author, consultant, speaker, and facilitator who brings her core philosophie…
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Walking in the Footsteps of a Legend, A Personal Story by Christian Bolden | S.2 Ep.11
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Our Story In a departure from our usual format, our guest Christian Bolden tells a personal story of visiting Ireland for the first time as a graduate student. He describes his experience as an African American in Dublin in 2016, a moment when three events captured attention: the US presidential election, the killing of Alton Sterling, and the deat…
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The Fenland Lanterns: An Autumn Story from East Anglia by Robyn Watt | S 2 Ep 10
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Our Story This is a story of a cheerful, fearless farmhand named Fred who lived in the Fens, the marshy, bogs of East Anglia. He was at home in himself and on the land, and that attracted the jealousy of the other young men on the farm. This story, inspired by a tale called "The Syleham Lamps," collected in Kirsty Hartsiotis’s Suffolk Folk Tales, f…
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Deirdre, Who Is So Much More Than Her Sorrows | S.2 Ep. 9
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Our Story The story of Deirdre or the Exile of the Sons of Uilsliu is a pre-tale of the Táin, the greatest epic in Irish mythology. At her birth, Deirdre is prophesied to bring ruin to Ulster. It is a tale of a despotic king, love at first sight, betrayal, and includes a brief mention of suicide. Our Guest Melinda Laus is a grief counselor and educ…
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Life and Death on the Farm Atop the Hill: A Story of an Irish Cailleach | S.2 Ep.8
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Our Story There’s a long, strange tradition in Irish mythology and folklore in which a powerful man tries to steal a valuable cow from an old woman (cailleach). Maybe it’s not so strange… It’s just one more example of how independent older women are considered a threat to the status quo. Marisa Goudy tells the story of Mona, the Cailleach who lived…
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Bóinn Re:membered: A Story of Poetic Inspiration by Laura Murphy | S 2 Ep 7
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Our Story This original story of the Irish goddess Bóinn was written by Laura Murphy and is being offered for the first time here on KnotWork Storytelling. Laura takes what we have from the medieval manuscripts from the Christian monasteries and then follows her own divine inspiration, or the imbas forosnai you’ll hear so much about in our conversa…
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Lost in the Wild, At Home Within: A Story of Mad Sweeney | S 2 Ep 6
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Please Support Our Show: Join us on Substack Love KnotWork Storytelling? Your financial contribution helps me pay the amazing team that puts this show together. Find the in-depth show notes, get special supporter-only podcast episodes, and stay connected between seasons. Subscribe to our on our Substack newsletter Myth Is Medicine. Our Story The ta…
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Bright And Obscure: Stories of the Irish Goddess Áine with Jen Murphy | S. 2 Ep. 5
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Our Story A Irish sovereignty goddess whose origins lie with the mythical Tuatha Dé Danann, Áine is also a sun deity, a bean sidhe (woman of the Sí), and fairy queen. Our guest Jen Murphy comes to KnotWork with a collection of Áine tales. In a story from the mythological period, Áine has an ill-fated meeting with the unjust king Aillil Ólomm, who s…
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Launching Ships: A Story of Helen of Troy | S. 2 Ep. 4
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Our Story Storyteller Maura McMahon offers us a clip from her show, Launching Ships: A User's Guide for Your Face. She took to the stage at Green Kill Art Center in Kingston, NY in spring 2022 and was accompanied by musician David Gonzalez. You’ll hear the events in the final moments of the Trojan War, as that infamous horse full of Spartan warrior…
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