KnotWork Myth & Storytelling

By Marisa Goudy

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On KnotWork, we explore the mythology and folklore of Ireland, and beyond. Episodes begin with a story, followed by a deep dive conversation about how this age-old tale still resonates today. Our guests include oral storytellers, writers, artists, musicians, and spiritual leaders. Occasionally, in our Myth Workers and Culture Makers series, our guest offers a song, a meditation, or another bit of creative magic. We talk about what it means to live a myth-inspired life. These conversations explore our relationship to land and to identity, particularly related to what it means to be Irish and a member of the Irish diaspora. Whether you’re drawn to Celtic culture or the mysteries that linger at ancient sacred sites, or whether you just like a good story and expansive conversation, you’re in the right place. Welcome. Fáilte. Your host is Marisa Goudy, author of The Sovereignty Knot: A Woman’s Way to Freedom, Power, Love, and Magic. She is a myth worker, a story healer, a writing coach who lives on the lands of the Lenape people (New York’s Hudson Valley). She holds an MA in Irish literature from University College Dublin.

Episode Date
Island Consciousness | S7 Ep6
Jun 04, 2026
Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Cú Chullain, the Outsider by Peter Wucherpfennig | S7 Ep5
May 28, 2026
We Are the Grandchildren of the Selkies Who Stayed | S7 Ep4
May 21, 2026
The Silver Wheel with Jen Murphy | S7 Ep3
May 14, 2026
The Invitation to Tir na mBan, the Land of Women | S7 Ep2
May 07, 2026
The Fires of Bealtaine and Eros with Robert Mulhall | S7 Ep1
Apr 30, 2026
Bean Ghlúine of the Burren, The Midwife of County Clare with Sarah Richardson
Jan 29, 2026
Conspiring With Brigit with Kate Chadbourne | S6 Ep42
Jan 22, 2026
The Spin of the Brigid's Cross with Natalie O'Shea | S6 Ep41
Jan 15, 2026
Ciarán and His Wild, Holy Kin | S6 Ep40
Jan 08, 2026
Omen Days & Solstice Rays | S6 Ep39
Dec 21, 2025
A Winter’s Gift with Erica O’Reilly | S6 Ep38
Dec 18, 2025
The Christmas Visions of John Moriarty with Amanda Carmody | S6 Ep37
Dec 11, 2025
Keeping Hold of the Sacred Branch | S6 Ep36
Dec 04, 2025
Meet The Elemental Grannies with Elizabeth Cunningham | S6 Ep35
Nov 20, 2025
Sovereignty Rising with Rima Bonario | S6 Ep34
Nov 12, 2025
Gather Round the Fire with the Women and the Rabble | S6 Ep 33
Nov 06, 2025
Through the Samhain Portal with Robert Mulhall | S6 Ep 32
Oct 30, 2025
Digging Deeper Than Mythology Can Take Us | S6 Ep31
Sep 05, 2025
Silver Branch Perception: The Voyage of Bran | S6 Ep30
Aug 28, 2025
Achtan: A Brave Mother’s Tale, featuring Karina Tynan | S6 Ep29
Aug 21, 2025
Torn Between Two Worlds with Erica O'Reilly | S6 Ep28
Aug 14, 2025
The Art of Arrival: A Modern Irish Immram | S6 Ep 27
Aug 07, 2025
Lughnasa: Harvest, Sacrifice, Celebration | Ep6 S26
Jul 30, 2025
The Descent of Inanna, with Pearl Gregor | S6 Ep25
Jul 23, 2025
Bright And Obscure: Stories of the Irish Goddess Áine with Jen Murphy | S6 Ep24
Jul 16, 2025
The Man Without a Story by Michael Newton | S6 Ep23
Jul 09, 2025
S6 Ep22: Extraordinary Everyday Culture Work with Tad Hargrave
Jul 02, 2025
The World Below: Song & Conversation with Katy Hellman | Ep6 S21
Jun 25, 2025
S6 Ep 20 From Erosion to Regeneration: To Cessair Sang the Sea | S6 Ep20
Jun 20, 2025
S6 Ep 19 From Lochlann to Éire: A Cailleach Story from the Outer Hebrides
Jun 11, 2025
Gemini Mythologies | S6 Ep18
Jun 05, 2025
The Theft of the Golden Apple featuring Stephanie MacKay | S6 Ep17
May 28, 2025
Stepping Off the Path, a story by Katrice Horsley | S6 Ep16
May 21, 2025
A Mythic Journey Through Wicklow & Kildare with Rónán Ó Raghallaigh | S6 Ep15
May 14, 2025
The Coldest Day in May by Erica O'Reilly | S6 Ep14
May 07, 2025
The Goddesses Who Welcomed the Winds of Change | S6 Ep 13
Apr 30, 2025
The Wooing of Etain, told by Amanda Verdery | S6 Ep12
Apr 23, 2025
Her Right to Privacy: A Story of Macha | S6 Ep11
Apr 09, 2025
The Children of Lir, Told by Ellen O'Malley Dunlop | S6 Ep10
Apr 02, 2025
A Woman’s Quest for Knowledge: Boan’s Tears by Ali Isaac | S6 Ep9
Mar 26, 2025
Invocation of the Rebel Ma by Saoirse Connolly | S6 Ep8
Mar 19, 2025
Myths Are a Blueprint for Balance, A Cailleach Story for the Spring Equinox by Nicole Marie | S6 Ep7
Mar 12, 2025
She Will Be Heard, Sheela Will Be Heard | S6 Ep6
Mar 05, 2025
Stars, Stones, and Shadows: A Heroine's Tale | S6 Ep 5
Feb 26, 2025
Bid the Unbiddable, a Story by Fiona Doris | S6 Ep4
Feb 19, 2025
Maggie’s Doll by Dee Mulrooney | S6 Ep3
Feb 12, 2025
The Invitation: Song and Conversation with Amano | S6 Ep 2
Feb 05, 2025
Brigid’s Cloak of Light with Treacy O’Connor | S6 Ep1
Jan 29, 2025
Best of KnotWork ~ Brigid: Rebirth of the Mother by Laura Murphy | S5 Ep20
Jan 22, 2025
When Tides Rise, Build Your Own Boat: Cessair’s Arrival in Ireland | S5 Ep19
Jan 15, 2025
Best of KnotWork: A Sacred Detour to Iona with Royce Fitts | S5 Ep18
Jan 08, 2025
Twelve Rays of Solstice | S5 Ep17
Dec 18, 2024
A Storyteller, A Story Listener with Rab Fulton | S5 Ep16
Nov 20, 2024
The Cailleach Weaving Through Our Bones, Song & Conversation with Sionnáin | S5 Ep 15
Oct 31, 2024
Aodh Ó Riagáin | S5 Ep14 | Myth Workers and Culture Makers Series
Oct 03, 2024
Remembering a Goddess, Three Years On | S5 Ep13
Sep 20, 2024
A Story About Getting Unstoried | S5 Ep12
Sep 04, 2024
Molly's Story by Erica O'Reilly | S5 Ep11
Aug 21, 2024
Language, Idea, Metaphor, Myth: Poetry by Adam Wyeth | S5 Ep10
Aug 07, 2024
A Mother’s Love, A Mother’s Sacrifice: Tailtiu and Lugh | S5 Ep9
Jul 24, 2024
A Story Waiting to Be Untangled: Our Lady, Undoer of Knots | S5 Ep 8
Jul 10, 2024
Magic Illuminates the Mundane: a story of Flidais by Regina de Búrca | S5 Ep7
Jun 26, 2024
The Inheritance of the Not-Chosen People, a story of Cessair by Sandy Dunlop | S5 Ep6
Jun 12, 2024
Being Human Is a Habit that Can be Broken: A Story of Mannanán by Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue | S5 Ep5
May 29, 2024
Bardic Return: Poems by Aisling Fraser | S5 Ep 4
May 15, 2024
The Coming of the Sons of Mil, a story by Brian Walsh | S5 Ep3
May 01, 2024
Achtan: A Brave Mother’s Tale, featuring Karina Tynan | S5 Ep2
Apr 17, 2024
Patrick + Sheelah Forever (Maybe) | S5 Ep1
Mar 14, 2024
Take Back the Magic with Perdita Finn | S4 Ep12
Dec 20, 2023
My Life As a Prayer with Elizabeth Cunningham | S4 Ep11
Dec 13, 2023
Tell Me My Story with Dimple Dhabalia | S4 Ep10
Dec 06, 2023
Divine Embodiment with Eleanora Amendolara | S4 Ep9
Nov 29, 2023
The Last Sovereignty Goddess | S4 Ep 8
Nov 08, 2023
Ireland’s Forgotten Goddess-Queen-Witch (Re-Release) | S4 Ep7
Nov 01, 2023
Fite Fuaite: Interwoven, A Story by Jen Murphy | S4 Ep6
Oct 25, 2023
A Sacred Detour to Iona, A Story by Royce Fitts | S4 Ep5
Oct 18, 2023
Birth, Death, and Rebirth: A Story of the Goddess Lilith | S4 Ep4
Oct 11, 2023
Miriam's Sensual Universe with Sophie Strand | S4 Ep3
Oct 04, 2023
Danu: Rise of the Mother, a story by Laura Murphy | S4 Ep2
Sep 27, 2023
For the Guides, Gods, and Ancestors | S4 Ep1
Sep 20, 2023
The Cauldron of Inspiration: A Story of Ceridwen & Taliesin | S3 Ep15
May 10, 2023
Niall of the Nine Hostages, A Story by Mari Kennedy | S3 Ep14
May 03, 2023
The Women of the Grail, told by Tara Wild | S3 Ep13
Apr 26, 2023
The Curator's Mythology with Owen King | S3 Ep12
Apr 19, 2023
Two Worlds, Two Women: A New Perspective on the Mad Sweeney Story | S3 Ep11
Apr 12, 2023
Bride and the Cailleach: A Scottish Story told by Katy Swift | S3 Ep 10
Apr 05, 2023
When Tides Rise, Build Your Own Boat: Cessair’s Arrival in Ireland | S3 Ep9
Mar 29, 2023
The Look of the Scots Gaelic Language: Stories About Race & Kinship | S3 Ep8
Mar 22, 2023
Driftwood Man, A Story by Dee Mulrooney | S3 Ep7
Mar 15, 2023
In the Company of the Banshee with Caoimhe Nic Giollarnáth | S3 Ep6
Mar 08, 2023
The Power of Pillow Talk: The Story of Queen Medb | S3 Ep 5
Mar 01, 2023
The Buried Moon, Told by Mitlé Southey | S3 Ep4
Feb 22, 2023
Choosing the Mystery: The Rosary’s Radical Feminine Heart with Perdita Finn | S3 Ep3
Feb 15, 2023
Art, Love, God: The Tragedy of Líadan and Cuirithir | S3 Ep2
Feb 08, 2023
Brigid: Rebirth of the Mother, a Story by Laura Murphy | S3 Ep1
Feb 01, 2023
Three Goddesses Walk Into a Bar | S.2 Ep.15
Nov 02, 2022
Fierce Tenderness: Stories of the Cailleach told by Kate Chadbourne | S2 Ep14
Oct 26, 2022
Mysteries and Holy Wells By Elizabeth Stack | S.2 Ep.13
Oct 19, 2022
Ethne and the Cauldron of Hospitality | S.2 Ep.12
Oct 12, 2022
Walking in the Footsteps of a Legend, A Personal Story by Christian Bolden | S.2 Ep.11
Oct 05, 2022
The Fenland Lanterns: An Autumn Story from East Anglia by Robyn Watt | S 2 Ep 10
Sep 28, 2022
Deirdre, Who Is So Much More Than Her Sorrows | S.2 Ep. 9
Sep 21, 2022
Life and Death on the Farm Atop the Hill: A Story of an Irish Cailleach | S.2 Ep.8
Sep 14, 2022
Bóinn Re:membered: A Story of Poetic Inspiration by Laura Murphy | S 2 Ep 7
Sep 07, 2022
Lost in the Wild, At Home Within: A Story of Mad Sweeney | S 2 Ep 6
Aug 31, 2022
Bright And Obscure: Stories of the Irish Goddess Áine with Jen Murphy | S. 2 Ep. 5
Aug 24, 2022
Launching Ships: A Story of Helen of Troy | S. 2 Ep. 4
Aug 17, 2022
Landscape, Lovers, and Mycelial Consciousness: The Story of Tristan and Isolde with Sophie Strand | S. 2 Ep. 3
Aug 10, 2022
Maeve, the Celtic Magdalen, Finally Comes to Call with Elizabeth Cunningham​​ | S. 2 Ep. 2
Aug 03, 2022
Tansy Field At Midnight: A 2,000 Year Old Abortion Story | S. 2 Ep. 1
Aug 01, 2022
The Heroine At the Crossroads: The Story Is the Knot | Ep 15
May 04, 2022
The Otherworld Is Always Close at Hand with Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue | Ep 14
Apr 27, 2022
How to Heal a Poet’s Heart, or The Invention of the Irish Harp, with Maureen Buscareno | Ep 13
Apr 20, 2022
The Descent of Inanna, with Pearl Gregor | Ep 12
Apr 13, 2022
The Man Without a Story, With Michael Newton | Ep 11
Apr 06, 2022
The Girl Who Defied Expectations with Nicole Burgess | Ep 10
Mar 30, 2022
A Feast for the Senses, the Story of La Quaintrelle by Elizabeth des Roches | Ep 9
Mar 23, 2022
The Unlikely Friendship of Oisín and St Patrick with Kevin Michael Murphy| Ep 8
Mar 16, 2022
Some 4000 Year Old Relationship Advice with Blair Glaser | Ep 7
Mar 09, 2022
The Birth of a Heroine with Barb Buckner Suarez | Ep 6
Mar 02, 2022
Power and Reality in the Midst of Fantasy, with Kelly Braffet | Ep 5
Feb 23, 2022
The Skerries Selkie with Jen Murphy | Ep 4
Feb 16, 2022
A Most Ferocious Lady of the Castle, with Maura McMahon | Ep 3
Feb 09, 2022
Ireland's Forgotten Goddess-Queen-Witch with Meg Sweeten | Ep 2
Feb 02, 2022
Conspiring With Brigit this Imbolc, with Kate Chadbourne | Ep 1
Jan 24, 2022
Ep 0: Fáilte: Welcome to KnotWork Storytelling
Jan 20, 2022