"Your story was absolute poetry. Your voice is beautiful. God bless it!"​  

Cape Clear Islander, Cork

Marianne’s lyrical storytelling has enchanted audiences from Cape Clear to Central Park.
Her tales of selkies and mermaids, fairy folk and the Fianna, and the magical Otherworld of the Celts have beguiled listeners at schools and libraries, festivals and concerts.  ​Marianne is a member of Storytellers of Ireland. ​

Listen to Marianne read the opening pages of Rónán and the Mermaid

 Marianne tells BBC Radio Ulster what inspired her story of a foundling boy and a mermaid saint.

Listen to Stories with Teddy. 

2021 EVENTS INCLUDE

• The Columbanus Festival, Bangor, November 2021
• Glens of Antrim Storytelling Festival, October 2021
• Aspects Festival, Bangor, September 2021
• Summer Stars, DLR Libraries, June, 2021
• Spring into Storytime, Meath Libraries, April 2021

​INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES INCLUDE

• The Sheen Center, New York City
• The Connecticut Storytelling Festival
• Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival. New York
• Poppenhusen Institute, College Point, New York
• Central Park, New York City
• Ulster Fleadh, Bangor Abbey, Bangor, County Down
• Cape Clear Island International Storytelling Festival, County Cork