The Cry of the Banshee

The Banshee is one of Ireland’s most famous folkloric figures. A supernatural woman with a cry that foretells of death and devastation to those who hear it, stories about banshees have been terrifying listeners for hundreds of years. But has she always been this way?

 

Read the Podcast Script

 

Sources and Further Reading

• A Folklore Survey of County Clare by Thomas Johnson Westropp
• The Triumphs of Turlough translated by Standish Hayes O'Grady
• The Hostel of Da Choca translated by Whitley Stokes
• Annals of Loch Cé
• The Memoirs of Lady Ann Fanshawe
• Personal Sketches of His Own Times by Sir Jonah Barrington
• Keening Tradition
• "The Irish Funeral Cry" in The Dublin Penny Journal 
• O'Brien's Irish-English Dictionary

 

Music

• The Butterfly – Sláinte
• Return Home - Moorland Songs
• The White Birch - Moorland Songs
• Mountain Solitude - Moorland Songs