Michael Cusack Heritage Centre

26/10/2026

✨ And that’s a wrap on the 5th annual Samhain Púca Storytelling Festival! 🎃🐐

Our final day was bursting with Samhain spirit. It was a wonderful Community & Family Fun Day, filled with smiles, laughter, and a little folklore-inspired magic. And just when we thought our fifth-anniversary celebrations couldn’t get any more extraordinary, Samhain an Ainmhí – Animal Opera took to the stage and left us absolutely wowed! 🎶🐾

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us on this journey, from our speakers, performers and storytellers, supporters, families, and festival-goers. You helped make our fifth year truly unforgettable. Five years down, and the stories are only getting started! A very special thank you to our An Clár as Gaeilge, Visit Clare, Clare Cultural Services & Communicating Europe 🥳🍂

Here’s to five fantastic years of Púca magic — and to many more tales, traditions, and a few mysterious happenings along the way!

Until next Samhain… keep the stories alive! 👀🐐


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25/10/2026

Samhain Púca Storytelling Festival Day 2.
Thank you to all of our amazing speaker and to the wonderful Clare Rose, Méabh Holland who opened our symposium. Thanks also to Eugene Lambe for the fantastic music & stories. And thank you to all who attended both events, I hope you enjoyed them as much as we did! From beginning to end, it was an unforgettable day. Míle buíochas🙏🏻


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23/10/2026

23/10/2026

Oh what a day!!
Storytelling exchange workshop with Hannah Gallagher, Set Dancing workshop with Geraldine Greene, Storytelling with Eddie Lennihan… and that’s just today!
Join us again tomorrow 9:30 am for our second annual symposium, Dinnseanchas: Landscape of Life, Memory, and Stone, and later at 5 pm, come along and enjoy a rousing traditional music session & storytelling with Piper & Storyteller Eugene Lambe & Friends!


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23/10/2026

👻All set for our Samhain Púca Storytelling Festival opening event ‘Honouring the voices of the elders at Samhain’ and what an event it was!!Many thanks to Hannah Gallagher of the National Museum of Ireland and the Burren & Lisdoonvarna Active Retirement group, and everyone who came and contributed their stories! Míle buíochas libh go léir 👻


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22/10/2026

✨Step into the spirit of Samhain, dust off your dancing shoes, and join us for our Set Dancing Workshop at the Samhain Púca Storytelling Festival! 🍂
🎟️ Places are limited, so don’t be left sitting on the sidelines — book your tickets now at michaelcusack.ie!

22/10/2026

🐐 THE GOATS HAVE GONE WILD FOR THE PÚCA… HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKETS YET?! 👻

Even the wildest locals are gathering near the Púca! 🐐🍂

Don’t be left bleating on the sidelines! 😂

Join us for the Samhain Púca Storytelling Festival at the Michael Cusack Heritage Centre for a spooktacular celebration of Irish folklore, storytelling, music and Samhain magic.

🎟️ Remaining tickets are selling fast — grab yours before they disappear into the mist!

👉 Book now at michaelcusack.ie


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21/10/2026

✨🍂”Every stone has a story. Every landscape holds a memory. Come and discover yours.”🪨✨

Step into the ancient world of the Burren at the Samhain Púca Storytelling Festival Symposium — Dinnseanchas: Landscape of Life, Memory, and Stone.

Join us for a fascinating day of ancient places, forgotten stories, landscape, folklore and living heritage, with an exceptional line-up of speakers and special guest David Keohan, aka Indiana Stones.

➡️Saturday 24 October | 9:30am–4:30pm
📍 Michael Cusack Heritage Centre, Co. Clare
🎟️ €25 per person — tea, coffee and a light lunch included!

✨ Uncover the stories. Connect with the past. Experience the magic of the Burren.

🎫 BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW at michaelcusack.ie⁠ — places await those who love a good story! 🍂


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