James Mooney The Wandering Paddy
Poems, sleep and study

Read aloud,
when you
need them

Some poems are better heard than read — especially at three in the morning, when you don't want to hold a book and you don't want advice. Two apps of poems, and Suan for sleep: all my own voice, my own words, and nothing else in the room.

Plus Ceist Eile, a study app for the Leaving Cert and Junior Cycle.

Suan icon: the moon over still water
Suan
TWP The Listening Room icon
The Listening Room
TWP Grief Poems icon
Grief Poems
Ceist Eile icon: the letters CE circled in red pen
Ceist Eile
Suan icon: the moon over still water
Suan
For sleep · new

Suan: sleep, the whole night

A sleep app for the whole night: getting off to sleep, and getting back to sleep when you wake at 3am. It was made for women in perimenopause, and it works just as well for men, and for anyone who wakes in the small hours. Sleep stories set in real Irish places, hypnosis, body scans and sounds that play all night, all read by me and shaped with Cara, a psychotherapist. Suan is Irish for slumber.

  • —Half-hour sleep stories from real Irish places, with a new one every month
  • —Back to Sleep: four quiet choices at 3am, on a near-black screen
  • —iPhone, Apple Watch and Android · a yearly subscription, first week free
On Android now · iPhone coming soon Google Play Help & support
For the long nights

TWP The Listening Room

Nineteen original spoken word poems, each one wrapped in its own colour of light. As a poem plays the screen glows in colours chosen to match its feeling, with a slow drift of light and a waveform moving to the voice. Everything is inside the app — nothing to stream, no sign-up. Open it, press play, and listen.

  • —Nineteen poems, written and read by me
  • —A colour and a waveform for every poem
  • —Works offline · no account, no tracking
iPhone & iPad Download
For the worst weeks

TWP Grief Poems

The grief poems on their own, away from everything else. For the days after a funeral, the anniversary you'd forgotten was coming, and the ordinary Tuesday that knocks you sideways. No stages, no steps, no advice — just someone who has been there saying it out loud.

  • —Poems for loss, read aloud
  • —The grief poems gathered in one place
  • —Something to hand to someone who can't be reached with words
iPhone & iPad Download
Which one

If you're grieving, start with Grief Poems. If you just want the poems in your ear while the kettle boils, that's The Listening Room.

The poetry apps are buy once, keep them — no subscription, and nothing to stream. The apps, the books and the prints are how the writing keeps going, and telling one other person is worth more than any advert I could buy.

Ceist Eile icon: the letters CE circled in red pen
Ceist Eile
For the Leaving Cert · new

Ceist Eile: past papers, ten minutes at a time

A study app for the Leaving Cert and the Junior Cycle. Past-paper questions in short sessions, marked step by step the way the examiner marks them: get half of it right and you keep half the marks. Every topic shows how often it has come up on the real papers, so the time goes where the marks are. Ceist eile is Irish for another question.

  • —26 Leaving Cert and 20 Junior Cycle subjects, at Higher, Ordinary and Foundation level
  • —Flash cards, quick-fire games, mock papers and step-by-step videos
  • —Free for now · no ads · one account on your phone and your laptop
On iPhone now · Android early access App Store ceisteile.com