tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885278372959102829.post4041109838999952226..comments2023-06-29T05:31:31.923-05:00Comments on Musings of a Bookworm: Picnic, LightningJillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11905232092734897933noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885278372959102829.post-53476848876268017372012-03-08T21:20:23.199-06:002012-03-08T21:20:23.199-06:00“The Last Storyteller”, Ben MacCarthy, plays a mul...“The Last Storyteller”, Ben MacCarthy, plays a multitude of roles and touches a vast number of lives. Set in the troubled Ireland of the 1950s, a time of IRA insurgency and government crackdown, Ben is the son of parents who embarrass him, annoy him, disappoint him, and whom he must reconcile to each other, all while their mutual love never flags and the unwilling accomplice in an IRA action and subject of a police search. Ben is the husband and lover of Venetia, the entertainer whose life he shares with others but whom he never stops seeking or loving. Ben is the protégé of James Clare, his mentor at the Irish Folklore Commission, who taught him how to collect and record stories and told him that “”There’s no story, no matter how ancient, as important as one’s own.” Ben is the attentive student of John Jacob Farrell O’Neill, the consummate Irish storyteller, the seanchai and it is from O’Neill that Ben will learn his craft.Espanahttp://safetyprecautionkids.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com