Scéaleenies
Scéaleenies, noun, plural. A weekly podcast of Irish short stories. Intimate, slightly off-beat. A patent-pending blend of Irish inflection, wit and observation focused on the moment, voices and strangeness of life.
Episodes
15 episodes
The Seven Curses of Quilty
There are seven curses of Quilty. No one agrees on the order.The first is peace.What begins as healing, neighbour speaking to neighbour again, land settling, old grievances loosening, slowly becomes something else. Attent...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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9:23
The Athfhillteach
A scholar of Irish manuscripts begins to notice a pattern.Not in the text. In the margins.Across centuries, in ink, print, dreams, and now machines, something has been repeating itself. Not a story, but a structure. Not a creature, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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28:02
The Hobby Horse
A tired Dublin father goes out on Christmas Eve to find the one gift his son asked Santa for, a rocking horse he can't afford.After every shop fails him, a strange figure by the canal offers him a beautifully carved hobby horse for free, in...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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31:55
Of Mice and Man
A man buys a cottage with “great potential,” which is auctioneer language for no heating and mice.What begins as romantic renovation quickly becomes a quiet war. Humane traps become snap traps. Flour becomes surveillance. The wa...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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13:49
The Slavic Defence
At his first international conference, funded to the exact punt and sworn not to disgrace the nation, a young Irish scholar begins exchanging chess moves with a mysterious counterpart. The ritual continues for decades across symposia, Fes...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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6:27
An tSagart
“We decided, together, not to see.” On a remote Irish peninsula, the priest was the centre of everything.He visited homes at night. Boys came home pale. Once, during a storm, a child saw him in the graveyard, listening.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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16:40
Departures/Arrivals
Airports - The pinnacle of modernity. Long-haul flights, high technology and ever shorter attention spans. Dolmens - The ancient stone-age sentinels surrounded by folklore and memories older than nations and cultures. Th...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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14:31
The Inspection Game
A tale about an underground practice, where participants secretly inspect strangers’ homes, document every detail, and leave no trace. As the practice spreads, the boundaries between observer and observed begin to collapse.Best e...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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7:36
The Emigrant Song
A stormy night folk tale about music, migration, and the pull west. This episode presents a spoken reading of The Emigrant Song, a literary folk-horror story set in Dublin on a stormy night near the equinox.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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8:35
Tale of The Telltale Carpark
A wish, a loophole, and a Lidl car park. This episode presents a spoken reading of a modern folk tale set in a familiar and deeply unremarkable place: a supermarket car park in the Irish Midlands.When an ordina...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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8:23
An Fear Glais
When the power goes out at sunset, the parish gathers to listen. This episode presents a full spoken reading of An Fear Glais, a contemporary Irish folk tale told through the voice of a child during a time wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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21:31
The Observatory At Birr
At Birr, the telescope was built to look outward. Something answered. This episode presents a spoken reading of The Observatory at Birr, a literary horror story rooted in Irish scientific history and theolog...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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6:21
All Aboard
A pub tale of the Celtic Mist, the sea’s memory, and debts that don’t drown. This episode features a spoken reading of a contemporary Irish folk-horror story, told as a pub tale passed carefully from mouth to ear, wit...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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7:18