Jack Lynch

Dublin-born Jack is rooted in the scéalaí tradition as explored by Eamon Kelly and John Campbell, having shared a stage with both. He has experience in schools, libraries and prisons. He works regularly in the National Museum of Ireland and in psychiatric hospitals. He has been a teller at local arts festivals and at Irish storytelling festivals.

 

Internationally, Jack has appeared at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC; Festival At The Edge in England; Alden Biesen in Belgium; Estonia; Berlin; 

The Beni-Mallal Festival in Morocco; Zimt & Zinder German/Irish Festival in Potsdam; The Hakaya Festival in Amman, Jordan; The Grimm's Library in Berlin; St. John's Storytelling Festival, Newfoundland; Shakespeare&Co. Festival, Paris; Warsaw Storytelling Museum Festival; Sidmouth Folk Festival; Edinburgh Storytelling Festival; Girvan Folk Festival; Orkney Folk Festival; Whitby Folk Festival; Hammersmith Irish Festival; Newcastle Irish Festival and The Illinois Storytelling and Education Programme. Jack has three times been the featured Irish storyteller at the Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival and twice at Gimistory, the Cayman Islands. 

He has also appeared at Ireland's Flat Lake Festival and The Electric Picnic.