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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Traditional Gaelic storyteller/historian</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the record label, see <a href="/wiki/Shanachie_Records" title="Shanachie Records">Shanachie Records</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Saenchai" title="Saenchai">Saenchai</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p><p>A <b>seanchaí</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ga-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish" title="Help:IPA/Irish">[ˈʃan̪ˠəxiː]</a></span> <small>or</small> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ga-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish" title="Help:IPA/Irish">[ʃan̪ˠəˈxiː]</a></span> – plural: <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a>: <i lang="ga">seanchaithe</i> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ga-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish" title="Help:IPA/Irish">[ˈʃan̪ˠəxəhɪ]</a></span>) is a traditional <a href="/wiki/Gaels" title="Gaels">Gaelic</a> storyteller or historian, serving as an <a href="/wiki/List_of_oral_repositories" title="List of oral repositories">oral repository</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a> the word is <span title="Scottish Gaelic-language text"><span lang="gd" style="font-style: normal;"><b>seanchaidh</b></span></span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="gd-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Help:IPA/Scottish Gaelic">[ˈʃɛn̪ˠɛxɪ]</a></span>; plural: <span title="Scottish Gaelic-language text"><i lang="gd">seanchaidhean</i></span>). The word is often <a href="/wiki/Anglicisation" title="Anglicisation">anglicised</a> as <b>shanachie</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/x/: 'ch' in 'loch'">x</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/x/: 'ch' in 'loch'">x</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">SHAN</span>-ə-khee, -⁠<span style="font-size:90%">KHEE</span></i></a>). </p><p>The word <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaí</i></span>, which was spelled <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaidhe</i></span> (plural <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaidhthe</i></span>) before the <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a> <a href="/wiki/Irish_orthography#Spelling_reform" title="Irish orthography">spelling reform of 1948</a>, means a bearer of "old lore" (<span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchas</i></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Gaels" title="Gaels">Gaelic</a> culture, long lyric poems which were recited by bards (<span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga"><a href="/wiki/Fili" class="mw-redirect" title="Fili">filí</a>; filidhe</i></span> in the original pre-1948 spelling) in a tradition echoed by the <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaithe</i></span>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Traditional_art">Traditional art</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seancha%C3%AD&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Traditional art"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">Seanchaithe</i></span> were servants to the heads of the lineages and kept track of important information for them: laws, genealogies, annals, literature, etc. After the destruction of Gaelic civilization in the 1600s as a result of the English colonialism, these more formal roles ceased to exist and the term <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaí</i></span> came to be associated instead with traditional storytellers from the lower classes.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCNI_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCNI-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaithe</i></span> made use of a range of storytelling conventions, styles of speech and gestures that were peculiar to the Irish folk tradition and characterized them as practitioners of their art. Although tales from literary sources found their way into the repertoires of the <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaithe</i></span>, a traditional characteristic of their art was the way in which a large corpus of tales was passed from one practitioner to another without ever being written down. <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">Seanchaithe</i></span> passed information orally through storytelling from one generation to the next about Irish folklore, myth, history and legend, in medieval times.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCNI_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCNI-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The distinctive role and craft of the <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaí</i></span> is particularly associated with the <a href="/wiki/Gaeltacht" title="Gaeltacht">Gaeltacht</a> (the Irish-speaking areas of Ireland), although storytellers recognizable as <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaithe</i></span> were also to be found in rural areas throughout English-speaking Ireland. In their storytelling, some displayed archaic <a href="/wiki/Hiberno-English" title="Hiberno-English">Hiberno-English</a> idioms and vocabulary distinct from the style of ordinary conversation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_times">Modern times</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seancha%C3%AD&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Modern times"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IVRLA_10443_%C3%93_hEinir%C3%AD.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/IVRLA_10443_%C3%93_hEinir%C3%AD.jpg/243px-IVRLA_10443_%C3%93_hEinir%C3%AD.jpg" decoding="async" width="243" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/IVRLA_10443_%C3%93_hEinir%C3%AD.jpg/365px-IVRLA_10443_%C3%93_hEinir%C3%AD.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/IVRLA_10443_%C3%93_hEinir%C3%AD.jpg/486px-IVRLA_10443_%C3%93_hEinir%C3%AD.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1513" data-file-height="1442" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_%C3%93_hEinir%C3%AD" title="Seán Ó hEinirí">Seán Ó hEinirí</a>, <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaí</i></span> from <a href="/wiki/County_Mayo" title="County Mayo">County Mayo</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Members of the <a href="/wiki/Celtic_Revival" title="Celtic Revival">Irish Cultural Revival</a> took a great interest in the art of the <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaí</i></span>, and through them the stories that they told were written down, published, and distributed to a global audience.<sup id="cite_ref-BBCNI_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCNI-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At events such as <a href="/wiki/Mummer" class="mw-redirect" title="Mummer">mummers</a>' festival in <a href="/wiki/New_Inn,_County_Galway" title="New Inn, County Galway">New Inn, County Galway</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/All-Ireland" title="All-Ireland">All-Ireland</a> <a href="/wiki/Fleadh_Ceoil" class="mw-redirect" title="Fleadh Ceoil">Fleadh Ceoil</a> storytellers who preserve the stories and oratory style of the <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaithe</i></span> continue to display their art and compete for awards. <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Lenihan" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund Lenihan">Eddie Lenihan</a> is one notable modern-day <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanchaí</i></span>, based in <a href="/wiki/County_Clare" title="County Clare">County Clare</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Actor <a href="/wiki/Eamon_Kelly_(actor)" title="Eamon Kelly (actor)">Eamon Kelly</a> was well known for his portrayals of the traditional <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">seanachaí</i></span>, and ran several series of one-man shows in Dublin's <a href="/wiki/Abbey_Theatre" title="Abbey Theatre">Abbey Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_uses_of_the_term">Other uses of the term</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seancha%C3%AD&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other uses of the term"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The term is also found within <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Scottish Gaelic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manx_language" title="Manx language">Manx</a> where it is spelt <span title="Scottish Gaelic-language text"><i lang="gd">seanchaidh</i></span> (<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="gd-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Help:IPA/Scottish Gaelic">[ˈʃɛn̪ˠɛxɪ]</a></span>) and <span title="Manx-language text"><i lang="gv">shennaghee</i></span> (<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="gv-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Manx" title="Help:IPA/Manx">[ˈʃɛnaxiː]</a></span>) respectively. All uses ultimately have their roots in the <a href="/wiki/Bard" title="Bard">traditional poets</a> attached to the households of ancient <a href="/wiki/Irish_nobility" title="Irish nobility">Gaelic nobility</a>. 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