Threshold- Listening Library
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Selection Of Poetry - read by Pat Boran
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A Man Is Only As Good (Pat Boran) Skipping (Pat Boran) Corner Boys (Pat Boran) Fetch! (Pat Boran) Widow Shopping In Portlaoise (Pat Boran) ...
Sailing For Home - ready by Theo Dorgan
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when four people, three old sea hands and a novice (the author) cross the Atlantic aboard a 70-foot schooner? Sailing For Home captures t...
The Little Bee Charmer of Henrietta Street - Sarah Webb
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When their father’s business fails, Eliza and Jonty Kane move to a tenement flat in Dublin city, number 16 Henrietta Street. From a crowded tenement...
Under - read by Aisling Kearns
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s so peaceful down here. I’m not going back. Escaping the minutia of other people’s ordinary lives, like driving alone to be by yourself, I e...
The Way Up To Heaven - read by Ned Dennehy
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mrs Foster is someone who feels much calmer when she is able to arrive early or on time for appointments and events. Mr Foster, less so – or rather ...
The Panther - read by Ben Panthera
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A girl, a shapeshifter, was going home from the beach in Dad’s car with ‘Lightning Paws’; the idea of a panther with a hoverboard. She loved him...
The New Farm - read by Art Agnew
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Time hardly mattered in the village of Mucker, the birthplace of poet and writer Patrick Kavanagh. Full of wry humour, Kavanagh's unsentimental an...
The Good Son - read by Paul McVeigh
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isn’t a good thing in his part of town. Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door...
She Owns Everything - read by Anne Enright
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cathy was often wrong, she found it more interesting. She was wrong about the taste of bananas. She was wrong about the future of the bob. She was wro...
Selection Of Poetry 2 - read by Niamh Lynch
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prayer Before Birth (Louis MacNeice) The Poem (Donald Hall) A Mayo Tao (Derek Mahon) Questions About Angels (Billy Cullens) Making Love Outside Áras...
Selection Of Poetry 1 - read by Niamh Lynch
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Basho in Ireland (Billy Cullens) Apple Blossom (Louis MacNeice) When All The Others Were Away At Mass (Séamus Heaney) Digging (Séamus Heaney) God Sa...
Selection Of Poetry - read by Paula Meehan
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Crossing The Threshold (Paula Meehan) At The Spring Equinox (Paula Meehan)
Selection Of Poetry - read by Vincent Woods
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Meaning Of A Word (Pearse Hutchinson) Bicycle (Vincent Woods) Soul (Vincent Woods) Ainm (Vincent Woods) Poet’s Truth (Vincent Woods) Tommy Gralt...
Second Hand - ready by Cethan Leahy
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A ticklish cough leads to a delve into the realisation, rationalising, the surgery, and the acceptance of a lung cancer diagnosis despite never smokin...
Rooms - ready by Tara Flynn
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My first room was big, in a house in the country. Animals were everywhere but no animals were ever allowed upstairs. Later, flat-sitting in London, in...
Pony - ready by Tony Curtis
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A collection of poems about the beautiful, majestic Connemara pony.
OMB - read by Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dead, or pretending? Death has its own particular stillness. Foaming at the mouth, his eyes bulging and black. Kit retrieved the sliotar from betwixt ...
Night Creatures - read by Brian Gleeson
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mags Duffy, lone wolf and union woman through and through, left a boring union conference as two days of Irish icy-snow had brought town to a halt. Fr...
Never Mind The B*******s - read by Luke O'Neill
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arriving at science's definitive answers to some of the most controversial topics human beings have to grapple with, Never Mind the B******s is a ...
Letters To A Young Poet - read by Paul Brady
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of the 20th Century the great German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, living in Paris at the time, got a letter from an aspiring young poet ...
Green Fool Hiring Fair - read by Stephen Rea
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Full of wry humour, Kavanagh's unsentimental and evocative account of his Irish, rural upbringing describes a patriarchal society surviving on the...
Brown Lady 12345 - read by Melatu Uche Okorie
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mohammed and Josef are chatting about life as a refugee and the trouble in finding somewhere to live. However, shelter is not the only necessity of li...
A Song - read by Colm Toibín
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Noel's parents had split when he was a boy and his mother had gone on to a successful singing career. But when he has a chance to reunite with her...
A Rhinoceros, Some Ladies And A Horse - read by Brendan Gleeson
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A young boy works for a theatrical agency in Dublin as an errand boy. This is his first job ever and he loves running errands for the two men who own ...
A Man’s World - read by Bríd Brennan
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I had five maiden aunts, and they doted on me.” A Man’s World contains a blueprint of Brian Friel’s acclaimed Dancing at Lughnasa. Picking up...
A Christmas Childhood - read by Stephen Rea
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Kavanagh’s poem explores themes of memory and imagination. He explores the magical world of childhood and the mourning of its passing. He us...
A Ballyeggs Christmas - read by Tara Flynn
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some time in the 1800s, there was a house, and in it Mrs. Byrne, Séamus, the old master, Captain Legend, and Gus the Goose, with whom Sheila the Mai...
32 Words For Field - read by Manchán Magan
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before we cast old words aside, let us consider the sublime beauty and profound oddness of the ancient tongue that has been spoken on this island for ...