Sunday Miscellany

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

2d ago

Aspirations, Idylls and Apiarists

High-achieving couples, musical ambitions, the pre-leigislative life, learning to swim and the dangers hiding in plain sight....with Evelyn Conlon, Gemma Tipton, John MacKenna, Mary O'Malley, Pat Boran and Joe KearneySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 5

Heroes, Haste and Pivotal Childhood Moments

A selection from the 2013 and 2014 archives, from Grace Wells, John MacKenna, AM Cousins, Sara Baume, Iggy McGovern, Susan Stairs and Cyril KellySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 28

Bravery, Beauty and Photographing Veronica

Veronica Guerin remembered, a voyage into the past on a Donegal island, and a tribute to David Hockney, with Brian Farrell, Fiachra Gallagher, John MacKenna, Gail Seekamp, Billy Collins, Mícheál McCann and Moya CannonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 21

Fathers, Friends and Shakespeare in the Arctic

The father-daughter bond over books, football and furniture, Solstice meditations and remembering the great Tommie Gorman, with Christian O'Reilly, Ann Breslin, Paul Johnston, Nollaig Rowan, Grace Wells, Kevin McDermott and Durgham MushtahaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 14

Live from Listowel Writers' Week (part 2)

Foxes, Fairy Paths and a Midnight Swim - (including some recordings from past Miscellany Live shows) with James Mulvihill, Cyril Kelly, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Enda Wyley, Jessica Traynor, Colin Murphy, Lorraine Nash, Boris Hunka & Diane Daly, Dónal Clancy and West Coast SoundsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 7

Live from Listowel Writers' Week (part 1)

Dandelions, foxgloves and bohemian trailblazers, life over John B Keane's pub and a friendship forged in literature and music — first of two programmes recorded in St John's Theatre, Listowel, with Joanna Keane O'Flynn, Zaffar Kunial, Elaine Garvey, Bernard O'Donoghue, Colum McCann, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, West Coast Sounds and Lorrraine NashSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 31

Beaches, Boats and Swims

Barefoot runs on Bettystown beach, summers at Dollymount, formative swims, a cliff walk and a fateful family boating trip. With Joe Rooney, Maeve Edwards, Romie Lambkin, Pat Boran, Mae Leonard, Peter Jankowsky and Grace WellsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 24

Bewitching Music and the Brendan Voyage

Cowbells and baby birds, the highs and lows of Arsenal fandom, scaling Mount Brandon and saluting the extraordinary voice of Moya Brennan, with John Toal, Lani O’Hanlon, Oliver Sears, Eileen Heron, Philip Judge, Fr Alan Hilliard and Moya CannonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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7 Ratings

A welcome and beautiful alternative to the constant boom boom boom

2025-09-01

C. J. Wolf

The first clip was an essay about a royal train in Ireland that could have fit nicely into a program like RTÉ's "the history show." But as the program progressed, I sank gently into a meadow of words, both essay and poetry, and emerged at the end rested and renewed. What a relief to the often interesting but eventually overwhelming boom boom boom of energy and words that mark the urgent fight for audiences our money-driven world demands.
Love listening

2024-02-17

MDmighty

Look forward to listening every Sunday morning. Excellent.
Miscellany

2020-05-23

Yoho1960

There is something truly beautiful in these words spoken with humble grace. It is becoming a Sunday tradition here!