Welcome to Shanachie Publishing
Storytellers and Makers of Fine Books
In times long past on the far reaches of Western Europe the ‘shanachies’ were the traditional Gaelic storytellers or folklore historians - known as seanachaidh or seanchai - who kept alive the legacy of the old Scottish and Irish communities. Other nationalities have their own versions of these tellers of tales.
In China for centuries these storytellers - shuoshuren - were held in considerable esteem and hugely popular. They could keep audiences enthralled for hours in traditional tea houses known as shuchang - or ‘story telling theatres; only a handful of which remain to this day.
In their time nothing was written down and the legends, history and customs of their respective peoples were kept alive by the fabulous memories of the ‘shanachies’ and ‘shuoshuren’ and the stories they related orally.
In the spirit of those great storytellers our aim is to produce high quality and fascinating books with words and images - visually stunning photographs or artworks that tell stories in their own right.
However, unlike the oral chronicles they are a permanent printed and published record of people, places and events from the early years of the 21st century - but they surely follow the principles adopted by the ‘shanachies’ and ‘shuoshuren’ of telling stories for posterity.
