My friend Billy Teare, who has died aged 75, was a professional storyteller, appearing at schools, libraries, theatres and clubs across the UK, as well as at festivals around the world.
We worked together as a Northern Irish story and song duo for more than 20 years, having first met at the Sidmouth folk festival in Devon in 2003, and as a collaboration we also wrote Antrim Folk Tales (2013), a book that showcased many of the tales we told.
