![]() ![]() ![]() He is ready to pass the torch on to Ben, teaching him what he will need to know in order to carry on the tradition for posterity. His predecessor, John Jacob O’Neill, realizes he has grown too old to carry on. A mixture of ancient Irish folklore, eerily similar modern recreations of these stories and the beginnings of the Irish Republican Army, the intertwining plot lines revolve around main character Ben MacCarthy, the latest in a long line of seanchis, traveling collectors of folktales. His most recent novel, ‘The Last Storyteller,’ is the final installment in his Venetia Kelly trilogy. A writer, broadcaster and James Joyce scholar, Delaney has been called by NPR “The Most Eloquent Man In the World.” Irish-American novelist Frank Delaney has been telling the story of his native country through historical fiction for decades. So if we’re to live good lives, we have to tell ourselves our own story. But there’s no story, no matter how ancient, as important as one’s own. “Every legend and all mythologies exist to teach us how to run our days. “The Most Eloquent Man in the World.” – NPR ![]()
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