This is the second and final part of two episodes telling the story of the Children of Lir which has to be one of the most famous of all Celtic tales. We discover the tragic end of the beautiful children.

We talk about some of the modern Stone Circles that have been or are being built and introduce you to an unpublished book about the Ancient Celts: Land, Sea & Sky. More about this book, as well as anything else we discuss on the show, can be found in the Shownotes for this episode.

There is some great music from the Connemara Stone Company, Damh the Bard and Kellianna.

Kelley Heckart, famed for her Celtic Romances, has contributed a section from her book, White Rose of Avalon, to the show and we’d like to send her a big Thank You. We hope you enjoy the story. There are links in our Shownotes telling you how you can get hold of this book.

This episode is the first episode after we finished the Book of Invasions and we can begin to tell the isolated tales that are found in the Mythological Cycle.You can expect another dozen or so of these before we move on to our listener’s choice of subject wihtin Celtic Mythology, although looking at the poll it looks like we’ll be covering some more Irish Mythology. If we do, then it’ll be the Ulster Cycle with CuChulainn. If the choice goes for Welsh Myth then it’ll have to be the beginning of the Mabinogion.

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The Sons of Mil finally break through the magic of the Children of Danu and land on the shores of Erin. They demand recompense for the death of their kin and negotiations take place. Now it is up to the Tuatha De Danaan - will they fight, flee or come up with another plan? And yet, the great Bard Amergin also has a trick or two up his sleeve!

Seriously, thank you to our keen listener. The copy of Episode 3, Bres the Beautiful,  on the server has somehow become corrupted and only the first half played. We have now replaced it with a brand new, shiny Episode 3 and want to apologise to all of our very confused listeners wondering what happened between this point and Episode 4!

Centuries pass in the blink of an eye and the Realm of Erin is in the hands of the Tuatha De Danaan, the Children of Danu. This episode starts with a mysterious vision and then goes on to tell us how the descendants of the Old Gods make a disastrous mistake…

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Thank you for your patience

Gary & Ruth

We also talk about a possible delay in releasing Episode 11. Two or three days should be enough to get us back on track.

The Episode is available for subscribers on the feed, or you can download it or listen to it from our Episodes page. You can find the Shownotes for this episode in the Shownotes section.

Well, you will find a new Help page that explains some of the more confusing aspects of New Media to beginners to podcasts. We have added a page of Credits to say Thank you to all those who have helped produce the show and we have added some photo and image galleries.

The Guardian has reported that students will be able to take a vocational qualification in internet broadcasting from September 2008 thanks to the launch of an NCFE level 1 (GCSE grades D-G) award in podcasting.