Best of Super Great Kids Stories - Finn McCool and the Giant's Causeway
3/17/202626 min
This is a: 'Best of Super Great Kids' Stories' selected from our Archive.
The Giant’s Causeway on the coast of Antrim in Northern Ireland is an awe-inspiring staircase of huge rocks stretching far out into the sea. But how did it get there? Was it the work of Irish Giant Finn McCool and if so why? Irish storyteller Kate Corkery explains all.
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[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Best of Super Great Kids Stories. We're releasing one popular story from our archive in the middle of each month. The story this month is Fionn McCool and the Giant's Causeway, and it's told by Kate Corkery. Today, it's St. Patrick's Day, which is a big celebration in Ireland and beyond. It began as a religious festival, but it now celebrates all things to do with Ireland. There are parades, people dressed up in green, some as fairies, some as leprechauns, and there's Irish music and traditional food. If you have connections with Ireland, you might be celebrating St. Patrick's Day, too. This story from our archive is a trickster tale, and also a how and why story. It explains how some people say that the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland came to be. The Giant's Causeway is a staircase of huge rocks stretching far out into the sea. These steps are flat eight-sided shapes, and they look as if they've been chiseled out of rock by a clever