I Love Irish Mythology and Folklore, It's There in Ireland's Oral Culture

When you don't have writing, you have to have storytelling. That's when mythology and folklore comes in within an oral culture. Every tiny detail of the country and its people had to be recorded using the most interesting story possible or the most beautiful song possible. I think too it's why as a tiny nation we punch so far above our weight when it comes to art and literature. Some of the greatest writers in English literature are fucking Irish, most of them areucking Irish," he says.