Sunday Miscellany

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

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A Piano Man and a Wexford Ball

Post-Christmas blues and a December birthday, angels of heaven and the origins of Gaelic football in Wexford, with Mary O’Donnell, John Toal, Jackie Lynam, Alison Ní Mháirtín, Paul Rouse, the late Manchán Magan and Eithne Hand (pic: Paula Malone Carty)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

39 min
12/25/2025

A Christmas Day Miscellany

Palestrina in Rome, an outsize Santa suit, and gifts of kindness from the Liberties to Lagos… featuring recordings from the NCH with the RTÉ CO and more, with Eithne Shortall, Joseph O’Connor, John Toal, Quentin Fottrell, Rachael Hegarty, Chikere Ohoka, Lisa Lambe, the Palestrina Choir and Sarah ShineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

42 min
12/21/2025

Joy to the World: Christmas Miscellany Part 1

A winter wedding, a New Year’s Eve disaster, a Christmas baby and balm for the broken-hearted…Part 1 of Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Kathleen MacMahon, Paul Muldoon, Mia Döring, Paul Howard, Cauvery Madhavan, the Palestrina Choir and Lisa LambeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

40 min
12/14/2025

Songs, Seafarers and a Guiding Star

From Skerries to Strabane, East Galway to Alexandria: chance encounters, Christmastime musical delights and a deer of light, with Victoria White, Seán O’Gorman, Lisa McInerney, Jim Maguire, Judith Mok, Denise Blake and James HarpurSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

37 min
12/07/2025

War Stories and Winter Light

John and Yoko in County Mayo, Con Houlihan at 100 and a sniff of Christmas, with Donal Fallon, Louise Kennedy, Niall McArdle, Peter Cunningham Aidan Hynes and Helen O’RahillySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

37 min
11/30/2025

Bicycles and Belfast Boys

George Best and Harry Gregg’s footballing friendship, a long-forgotten fire in the Liberties and a poet in Kinsale, with Roslyn Dee, Las Fallon, Sharon Hogan, John Toal, Oliver Sears and Enda WyleySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

36 min
11/23/2025

Grief and History: Voices from Bloody Sunday, 2020

A special programme marking the anniversary of one of the worst days of violence of the War of Independence, with the support of the GAA Museum at Croke Park. With Colin Regan, Chris Shouldice, Michael Foley, Anthony Ryan, Anne Dolan, Paul Rouse and Louise HoganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

43 min
11/16/2025

Old Friends and New Beginnings

Ravens, crows and the last Irish wolf, diplomatic journeys and a poetry journal’s elegant farewell, with John MacKenna, Denise Blake, Zoë Devlin, Paul Muldoon, Nell Regan, Paul Johnston, James Harpur and Billy CollinsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

38 min

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RTE Radio’s flag ship.

02/23/2025

Mac an tSionnaigh

A must for radiophiles all over the world
Live in Ennis

03/02/2021

knockatee

I live in NYC and listened to this episode as I was walking along the path by the Hudson River yesterday. I was so moved that I had to sit on a bench and listen. Each segment was spectacular but I loved the donkey one most of all. Thank you so much for making my walk so special.
Appreciation from across the pond.

12/10/2019

Ferg-Is

Just a fantastic program. From HF/VHF to podcasts, RTÉ and Sunday Miscellany has been a companion to me for more years than I care to count. What a wonderfully entertaining program. How lucky am I to be able to listen from so far away, and for a short time I am transported to another world through the beautifully crafted words and stories. Always something new and captivating.
Jan 26 2020 episode is unbearable

01/29/2020

incognito82

I believe it is Barbara Scully. She has a stuffy nose and listening to her reading is unbearable. Why would you air this? I can’t breathe just listening to it.