Strangers at Lisconnel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Strangers at Lisconnel, credited to Jane Barlow, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Strangers at Lisconnel by Jane Barlow. Read by James E. Carson. Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of the most rural of rural places in Ireland. Although of a higher social class than her characters, Our Jane seems to have a touch of softness in her heart for their utter simplicity, abject poverty and naiveté. From the following brief example of dialogue, can be seen that Ms Barlow could only have come to write these words after having heard them countless times in person: Mrs. Kilfoyle: 'I declare, now, you'd whiles think things knew what you was manin' in your mind, and riz themselves up agin it a' purpose to prevint you, they happen that conthráry.' Although Jane Barlow did not consider her poetry worthwhile, the rythmn and music of her prose is magical to the ear. (Summary by JCarson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Strangers at Lisconnel
• Author credits: Jane Barlow
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 8:54:06

Catalogue topics

• Irish
• peasany life
• short stories

Track guide

1. 01 - Section 01 — 42:52
2. 02 - Section 02 — 38:49
3. 03 - Section 03 — 1:01:24
4. 04 - Section 04 — 1:02:32
5. 05 - Section 05 — 1:02:39
6. 06 - Section 06 — 1:03:07
7. 07 - Section 07 — 1:00:34
8. 08 - Section 08 — 1:02:07
9. 09 - Section 09 — 1:02:48
10. 10 - Section 10 — 17:20

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