Scéaleenies

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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.

  1. 3D AGO

    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. Attention sharpens. Lines harden. Memory returns at the wrong moment. And beneath it all, something older waits. Not anger. Not mercy. An arrangement. 🎧 A story about community, control, and what grows quietly when everything seems finally at rest.

    9 min

  2. MAR 19

    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, but a recurrence. It does not need to be written. Only noticed. This episode of Scéaleenies explores An Athfhillteach, that which returns by repeating. 🎧 Listen if you like slow horror, Irish folklore, or the feeling that something has been quietly learning how to think.

    28 min

  3. MAR 12

    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 exchange for a small and very unclear bargain. The gift works. His son loves it. But over the following weeks the boy grows stronger, stranger, and more alive, while his parents begins to feel something quietly draining away. A bargain isn't just for Christmas, it's for life.

    32 min

  4. MAR 5

    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 walls begin to speak in scratching sounds and small movements in the night. A story about property, vermin, and the strange rituals people invent to convince themselves they’re still in control.

    14 min

  5. FEB 26

    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, Festschrifts, and semiotic congresses, until intelligence services intervene and a foreign power claims the moves concealed a transformative technology.

    6 min

  6. FEB 19

    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. No one ever proved anything. But the parish decided, together, not to see. New original Irish folk horror audio story now available.

    17 min

  7. FEB 12

    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.  This is a tale of what happens when the two shall meet. When modern mundanity observes ancient exceptionalism and the curious get a glimpse into the place where the veil is thinnest.

    15 min

  8. FEB 5

    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 experienced in one uninterrupted listen, after sweeping your house for listening devices. Short audio fiction

    8 min
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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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  • Creator
    Scéaleenies
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Scéaleenies
  • Show Website
    Scéaleenies