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Quiller-Couch been born ten years later Cornwall had not wanted a shanachie.

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noun Chiefly Scots A skilled teller of tales or legends, especially Gaelic ones.

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Trefuilngid: True indeed, O Fintan, you are an excellent shanachie in holding the memory of this land. — Resonance FM: Midnight Sex Talk
Quiller-Couch been born ten years later Cornwall had not wanted a shanachie. — Irish Plays and Playwrights
Said an old shanachie to Synge on — Irish Plays and Playwrights
It is because he is the reincarnation of the shanachie of the Dark Ages. — Irish Plays and Playwrights
If you doubt that he was shanachie, not druid, compare the two legends in "Beyond the Blue Septentrions." — Irish Plays and Playwrights

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Scots Gaelic seanachaidh, from Old Irish senchaid, variant of senchae, historian, from sen, old; see sen- in Indo-European roots.

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