Teddy is a well known Irish storyteller steeped in lore handed down orally from old -timers, he is a repository of intimate local history and characters - a seanachai in the venerable Irish tradition. Growing up as a boy in Castletownbere in West Cork, long before television had had any influence in Ireland. Teddy experienced people gathering in neighbouring houses (this kind of house was known as a rambling house) passing on the stories and songs they had heard from their old folk
