Éamon a Búrc
Éamon a Búrc,1866-1942, tailor and Irish storyteller.
Born in Carna, Co. Galway, a Búrc spent part of his childhood in the USA. The Encyolopaedia of Ireland states: "He was perhaps the finest storyteller collected from in the twentieth century. The longest folk-tale ever recorded in Ireland - taking three nights to tell and amounting to more than 30,000 words - was collected from him."
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Source
"The Encyclopaedia of Ireland," 2003; ISBN 0 7171 300 2.
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