Scéaleenies

<p><br/>Pride before the fall is what we are told.</p><p><br/>What happens when local pride meets <br/>ancient tradition and modern norms are abandoned <br/>in the search for a temporary glory.</p><p>They didn’t just...

<p>There was a boy who would “go away.”</p><p><br/>Just for a few seconds.</p><p><br/>Everyone knew the rule:<br/>Don’t touch him.<br/>Count to ten.<br/>He’ll be back.</p><p><br/>Until one day… he wasn’t.</p>

<p>A disused church on the edge of an Irish estuary is reopened as a music venue. The sessions are lively, the crowd is warm, and the tradition feels alive again. <br/><br/>But something beneath the ground is stirring...

<p>There’s a hall in every town that used to be full of music.<br/>Ours is called The Paradise.<br/>Now it’s empty. Locked. Forgotten.<br/>But some nights, you can hear a band playing inside.<br/>Old songs. Perfectly...

<p>There’s an island on estuary that used to be inhabited.<br/>Not many families. Just enough.<br/><br/>They guided ships through the channel. They survived hardship. They never left.<br/><br/>People said it was...

<p>There are seven curses of Quilty.<br/> No one agrees on the order.</p><p>The first is peace.</p><p>What begins as healing, neighbour speaking to neighbour again, land settling, old grievances loosening, slowly...

<p>A scholar of Irish manuscripts begins to notice a pattern.<br/><br/>Not in the text. In the margins.<br/>Across centuries, in ink, print, dreams, and now machines, something has been repeating itself. Not a story...

<p>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.<br/>After every shop fails him, a strange figure by the canal offers him a beautifully...

<p>A man buys a cottage with “great potential,” which is auctioneer language for no heating and mice.</p><p>What begins as romantic renovation quickly becomes a quiet war. Humane traps become snap traps. Flour becomes...

<p> 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...

<p> “We decided, together, not to see.” </p><p>On a remote Irish peninsula, the priest was the centre of everything.<br/>He visited homes at night. Boys came home pale. Once, during a storm, a child saw him in the...

<p>Airports - The pinnacle of modernity. Long-haul flights, high technology and ever shorter attention spans. </p><p>Dolmens - The ancient stone-age sentinels surrounded by folklore and memories older than nations and...

<p>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...

<p> A stormy night folk tale about music, migration, and the pull west. </p><p>This episode presents a spoken reading of The Emigrant Song, a literary folk-horror story set in Dublin on a stormy night near the...

<p> A wish, a loophole, and a Lidl car park. </p><p>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.</p><p>When...