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.
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An Fear Glais
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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 when the nights go dark and communities gather indoors to listen again.
Set in a rural parish experiencing nightly blackouts, the story centres on the arrival of the Grey Man, a figure associated with darkness, attention, and old bargains renewed under modern conditions. As technology fails and silence returns, the story examines listening as ritual, fear as inheritance, and the uneasy comfort of rules being remembered.
Rooted in Irish oral tradition and shaped by present-day concerns, An Fear Glais is an atmospheric meditation on night, memory, and what watches when the lights go out.
A quiet, unsettling piece of spoken word fiction, best heard after dark.