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The Bardic School of Ireland

Are you blessed with an excellent memory, a gift for verbal improvisation, and a flair for the dramatic? Do you desire the fame and fortune enjoyed by master bards? Are you willing to study for 20 years or more to achieve your goal? If you answered "yes" to these questions, you might have what it takes to become an ollave, the highest class of poet in our land. And the Bardic School of Ireland can get you there.

Our Master Training Program will teach you how to:

• recount the history of Ireland in the form of long poems with elaborate structures

• recite any of over 350 full-length tales about a broad range of subjects, including:

• battles • elopements
• adventures • slaughters
• feasts • tragic deaths
• sieges • mystifying visions
• cattle-raiding expeditions • courtships and wooings

• grab an audience’s attention . . . and keep it

• spice up your tales with garish description, lively alliteration, and enticing adjectives

go a-barding! As a professional bard, you will have the opportunity to earn handsome fees, choose suitable patrons, and enjoy free lodging at the homes of nobles throughout the country. Thanks to our Career Development Program, you will learn how to use the threat of scathing satire to extort payment from a potential target.

For an application and more information on the Master Training Program at the Bardic School of Ireland, please contact headmaster@bardicschools.com