The Wordnik Word of the Day for October 22, 2012 is

shanachie
http://www.wordnik.com/words/shanachie

(noun) A skilled storyteller.

'Shanachie' comes from the Old Irish 'senchaid,' a variant of 'senchae,' historian.

 

Example:
Mr. Seumas MacManus is as truly a shanachie as the old story-tellers that yet tell the old tales about peat fires in Donegal.
--Irish Plays and Playwrights