What does Paranoia really feel like?

It's an absolute nightmare according to poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's Sceimhle. In this poem Ní Dhomhnaill fuses folklore and terror to create an allegory for a woman's experience in life. She weaves together a folkloric dreamscape in which to set all this. Death omens and portents of doom haunt every line as an unnamed character attempts to find any kind of refuge.

If you're looking for an Irish language poem with some serious bite to it, this is the one.

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Check out the show notes / script.

Read it here: https://wordsthatburn.substack.com/p/sceimhle-by-nuala-ni-dhomhnaill

Download a PDF here :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsLvktXv-c1vY8XJcK4b3aRrgHObXPW8/view?usp=sharing

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The music in this weeks episode was Closer to You by Sergey Cheremisinov: https://sergeycheremisinov.bandcamp.com/track/closer-to-you

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