An extensive retinue of stories
Ireland’s greatest natural resource is one that each of its citizens possess – their mouths. It’s an infinite reservoir of anecdotes, insights and recollections. 860m words are spoken by the average person in a lifetime; We’d hazard a guess and say it\’s closer to the even billion with the gregarious Irish. Thankfully, we have gathered an extensive audio archive on a wide variety of topics under the Audioboom platform. We’ll happily add in text, pictures and upload them to your preferred podcast provider.
Audio
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We have recorded hundreds of audio clips that are now available as podcasts on our AudioBoom archive. There are a wide variety of styles to hear, but if you have your own vision of how you want to sound, we can do that.
Enjoy excerpts of some of the best stories, anecdotes and tales, available to listen for free anytime. racontour has a wide range of podcasts on everything from customs to idioms, anecdotes to recitations, mythology to folklore.
Best of Racontour
Overwhelmed by the number of audio files we have? Ease yourself in with some of our favourites; some with extensive prose pieces to accompany the audio – you’ll find them in our Blog section.
Causeway Coast
The panoramic causeway coast from County Derry to County Antrim in Northern Ireland has stories as stunning as the scenery.
Irish Miscellany
Apparently, to be a proper smörgåsbord, you need to have both hot and cold dishes served; we think this eclectic list of all aspects of Ireland qualifies accordingly. It’s a work in progress as our back catalogue expands.
Ulster Idioms
The late Sean McMahon of Derry was the burning bush on all things Ulster. We’ve been lucky enough to record him in action with his good friend, Mary Murphy, on the colourful phrases of and about Ulster.
Feast Days
There are a host of noteworthy days in the calendar that have significance to the Irish going back to before Christianity came to Ireland.
Irish Mythology
If Quentin Tarantino ever has writer’s block, he need look no further than Irish mythology to find a who’s who of psychopaths and sinners where violence, deception, mendacity, spells and revenge are the order of the day!
Inishowen
The northernmost part of Ireland is a peninsula in County Donegal with a myriad of sights and sounds that will captivate. Here’s our audio version of the Inishowen 100 – a host of fascinating stories that we’ve gathered.
Customs & Superstitions
Ireland is awash with myths, customs and superstitions. We’ve chronicled several over the years and plan to roll out a lot more on our Audio Archives on Audioboom.
History & Heritage
A wide range of subjects I’ve been lucky enough to record from people I’ve met in the years I moved back in Ireland in 2008.
Rural Life
Real Ireland starts when you get into the countryside. Lovely folk with a gentler funnier perspective on life.
Donegal
Home sweet home. In this section, we bring you both podcasts complete with blogs relating to County Donegal. Many of the podcasts come from our sister site www.ramblinghouse.ie
Food & Drink
Heroes who help make these occasions that little bit special. Also the odd villain – Typhoid Mary and Niall of the Nine Hostages are not folk you\’d invite to your ideal dinner party!
Literature
A doff of the cap to some literary greats, with maybe a bit of mischief thrown in for good measure.
Music
Where would we all be without music in our lives? Here are a few highlights from stellar musicians ranging from White Harra to Ruairí from in Their Thousands to Robert Plant no less!
Humour
Some humorous podcasts we enjoyed making.
Rambling House
Hear great Irish stories from Inishowen up in County Donegal, all from our sister project, Rambling House.