Máirín Mhic Lochlainn tells stories in Irish and English, in the traditional way – the way her father used to tell them sitting by the fireside on the long winter nights of her youth!
Siad na scéalta fiannaíochta is fearr le Máirín – the long sagas about the King of Ireland’s son, getting the better of An Fathach Mór in the land of the east; stories that would take three or four nights to tell.
Máirín also has a lot of local stories, about all sort of things, ar nós Conán Maol agus An Chailleach; or The Eel who lived in Loch Coraib; or the Fairies in Áill na Graoi! She has told stories as far away as New Zealand, where the Māoris tell stories not unlike the Irish Stories!
Sure stories have been travelling since the beginning of time, agus go mba fada mar sin a bhèas mar sin an scéal!
Máirín was in her forties before she started telling stories publicly and has travelled also over Ireland and further afield to tell at festivals, schools, libraries, out on the ocean, on heritage walks and so on. She tells those same stories she heard from her father in Irish and English.
Máirín graduated from University of Ireland Galway with BA in history and Archaeology and MA in Drámaíocht na Gaeilge. She was the Storyteller in Residence in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe in 2023, and the year before that in Stiuideó Cuan in Spidal.