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Welcome to my website! My name is Cathy Jo Smith but I also use the professional name "Caítlín na Sí, seanachai" (KAWCH-leen nuh SHEE, SHAN-uh-kee), which is Irish for "Katie of the Fairies, storyteller". I have added a page on the Irish Wake and recently updated my "links" page to include a couple of friends--a fine player of the Irish harp(and a fine sean-nos singer as well) and a wonderful photographer from Germany I met over the internet. |
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| How it all started... It started when my daughter was in first grade. Her teacher had a program called "Mystery Reader". Each week, a different parent would come in and read a short book to the class--it was always kept secret and sometimes the parent would even come in costume. Well, I picked right before Halloween and came in as a little Irish lady to tell them about the real origins of Halloween and read a story about overcoming fear. The "Irish lady" was such a hit, she made a return visit in March with St Patrick's Day stories. Her visits extended to more classes and suddenly, without really trying, I had become a storyteller. |
Storytelling you can take home...my books My first book, "Adventures of Seamus McSeamus, an Irish Rover" is now available for sale--available on Amazon.com and from my publisher, Arcadian House. I also have a booklet for sale directly from me--Wake Me When It's Over. I think you can guess what that one is about... |
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A bit about me I am currently an at-home mother of four; a high school junior, one heading to college, an Air National Guard EMT and a junior at Ohio State. I am active in the National Storytelling Network, Storytellers of Central Ohio, the Ohio Order for the Preservation of Storytelling and the Irish-language Gaelic League. I have been a volunteer with the Dublin Ohio Irish Festival for seven years on the Cultural Committee. I was also a volunteer at the local elementary school library for five years. I write many of my own stories, based on Irish, European, Irish-American and Appalachian folktales. For more, including the tale of how my first public performance nearly became my last... Latest Updates and where I'll be next New for 2009 The Wake Tent Goes to Chicago! We plan to be at the Chicago Gaelic Park Irish Fest May 22-25th, 2009,and I hope to tell a tale or two as well! Details to follow as they get sorted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Dublin Irish Festival was a blast! Catch it again in 2009, July 31 thru August 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Grove City Record interviewed me and ran an article in the April 17th, 2008 edition |
But I'd still have to type it into a word processor to spell check it all! Send an email |
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