Threshold- Listening Library

Basho in Ireland (Billy Cullens)

Apple Blossom (Louis MacNeice)

When All The Others Were Away At Mass (Séamus Heaney)

Digging (Séamus Heaney)

God Says Yes To Me (Kaylin Haught)

I Rely On You (Hovis Presley)

Crossing The Threshold (Paula Meehan)

At The Spring Equinox (Paula Meehan)

The Meaning Of A Word (Pearse Hutchinson)

Bicycle (Vincent Woods)

Soul (Vincent Woods)

Ainm (Vincent Woods)

Poet’s Truth (Vincent Woods)

Tommy Graltan: Hitman (Vincent Woods)

Caveat Emptor (Henry Glassie)

Indiana Day (Vincent Woods)

A ticklish cough leads to a delve into the realisation, rationalising, the surgery, and the acceptance of a lung cancer diagnosis despite never smoking in his life. And, that the sinister smudge on his x-rays keeps moving only deepens the mystery.

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 bed-sits in Cork and Dublin, and voyages far and abroad - mid an ambience of mushrooms on the ceiling of the shared toilet on the return of the stairs .. and the like - I lived the adventures of a renter. I’m lucky. I’ve always had some kind of roof over my head. I have a lovely dream that everyone can have a room. We all deserve a room.

A collection of poems about the beautiful, majestic

Dead, or pretending? Death has its own particular stillness. Foaming at the mouth, his eyes bulging and black. Kit retrieved the sliotar from betwixt Rashers gnashers. Out. Out. Get it out! Seth Cullen was now god among the boys, scared rabbits, and victorious wolf packs of Carrick Cove.

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. Freezing! Worst cold spell in a generation. Night Creatures focuses on a taxi driver on New Year’s Eve in Dublin. Not many on the slushy roads. Roving cab-seekers flock and mob the streets. You have to stand your ground. Coffee and Star Bars would keep Mags going.

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 celebration of science and hard facts in a time of fake news and sometimes unhelpful groupthink. Professor Luke O’Neill grapples with life’s biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them, covering topics from global pandemics to gender, addiction to euthanasia.

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 looking for an opinion on his poems. This gave rise to an extended correspondence where Rilke deals with the very Nature of creativity itself. Listen to Rilke’s first letter of reply: Paris, February 17th, 1903. Dear Sir, ..