Seanchaí

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title: Seanchaí
text: A seanchaí is a traditional Gaelic storyteller or historian. In Scottish Gaelic the word is seanchaidh. The word is often anglicised as shanachie. The word seanchaí, which was spelled seanchaidhe before the Irish spelling reform of 1948, means a bearer of "old lore" (seanchas). In the Gaelic culture, long lyric poems which were recited by bards in a tradition echoed by the seanchaithe.
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description: Traditional Gaelic storyteller/historian
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