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Sunday Miscellany

RTÉ Radio 1

Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.

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79 episodes

  1. Ag Geimhriú/Hibernating, a poem by Catherine Foley 1:41
  2. In Praise of Dark Nights, by Kevin Gildea 5:29
  3. Swift’s Dangerous Book, by Gerry Mullins 6:05
  4. The Oldcastle Bell, by Amanda Bell 4:53
  5. A Spaceship on the Bog, by Anne McCabe 6:45
  6. Sleep Well, Old Friend, by John MacKenna 5:47
  7. The Harcourt Street Line, by John Ryan (from 1970) 6:34
  8. The House That Eileen Built, by Patricia O’Reilly (from 2004) 4:36
  9. Spanish Sunday, by Pearse Hutchinson (from 1968) 4:16
  10. The Barrow Track, by Angela Keogh (from 2021) 3:51
  11. The Attractions of Unspoiled Places, by Eric Cross (from 1968) 5:25
  12. Mountains, by Tom MacIntyre (from 1976) 4:40
  13. Incidents During The Emergency, by Mervyn Wal (from 1968) 4:08
  14. Bringing Opera Home to Granddad, a poem by Cal O'Reilly 1:12
  15. Opera Nights, by AM Cousins 6:03
  16. The Church of St Iberius: a Wexford Treasure, by Jackie Morrissey 5:38
  17. Like A Bird on a Beam by Tom Mooney 4:59
  18. The Path That Led Me To Storytelling, by Joe Brennan 4:38
  19. T'will Shorten the Winter, by Margaret Galvin 5:08
  20. Rediscovering Carmen Bustamante, by Colm Tóibín 5:44
  21. T'will Shorten the Winter, by Margaret Galvin 5:08
  22. Bog Casket, by Claire Cotter 5:35
  23. The Bog Bothy, by Emmett Scanlon 6:07
  24. The Bog, by Anthony Baggott 4:05
  25. An Emigrant Bog-Dweller, by Karen McHugh 5:45
  26. The Old Bog Road, by Niamh Donnellan 5:07
  27. Monakeeba Meditation, by Margaret Hickey 6:04
  28. Pangur Bán and Audrey, a poem by the late Gordon Snell 3:29
  29. Boys DO Cry, by Colin Regan 5:59
  30. Ada Yeates & Sisters, by Antonia Hart 6:01
  31. Our Way of Talking, by Denise Blake 5:11
  32. A Patch of Earth, by Jessica Freed 5:57
  33. Gordon Snell, Wizard, by Barry McCrea 6:42
  34. Niamh Attends to the Sick of the Supermarket, a poem by Mícheál McCann 1:40
  35. One Time, a poem by AM Cousins 3:23
  36. The Abbey That Refused to Die, by John Egan 6:59
  37. Showers, Sobriety and Synonyms, by Bernadett Buda 6:12
  38. A Fax from Seamus Heaney, by Denis Tuohy 4:33
  39. Church Going, by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha 6:55
  40. Heinrich Böll, by John F Deane 5:49
  41. The German Refugees of Limerick, by Jody Clarke 4:24
  42. Swimming Out to Caves along the Copper Coast, by Breda Joyce 5:22
  43. Soufflage at the Staatstheater, by Jim Culleton 4:31
  44. Autumn and Harvest, by Grace Wells 4:46
  45. We Close in October, by Georg Grote 6:09
  46. An Extraordinary Engineer, by Declan Phillips 8:31
  47. The Irish Brigids, by Máirín O’Malley 5:29
  48. The Mayor of the World Trade Centre, by Helen O’Rahilly 8:26
  49. New York, New York, by Peter Cunningham 5:55
  50. Memories of 9/11, by Jim Nolan 9:04