Storytelling: Interested in Storytelling since 2001 and a regular at the Dublin Yarnspinners, Fiona Dowling learnt most of her craft in the yearly Cape Clear Storytelling workshop. Exposed to the teachings of Pat Speight, Laura Simms, Colum Sands, Sharon Aziz, Ed Stivender, Dovie Thomason, Michel Parent, Jan Blake and most recently Jacques Mayoud, Fiona has since 2007 acquired wings of her own and started telling for real!
She tells to children and adults, in English or French, and sometimes appears dressed-up as a television, a 'Live' television.
Fiona has told in libraries, storytellers clubs, Killruddery house and gardens in Bray, Hayfield Manor Hotel, Cork and most recently in the Mosney refugee centre in Co. Louth. She can now be heard telling on the first Thursday of every month in the Dublin Food Co-op.
The stories she favours combine wisdom with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour. Her repertoire owes much to acclaimed French 'Conteur' Henri Gougaud and to many other tellers and books that have inspired her.
She is known for her beautiful smile and enchanting French accent!