Sunday Miscellany

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

  1. Sun and stardust, Irish words for rain and a gift from Edna O’Brien

    2 DAYS AGO

    Sun and stardust, Irish words for rain and a gift from Edna O’Brien

    A re-broadcast of a special Culture Night Miscellany, hosted by President Higgins and Sabina Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin in 2024, with Manchán Magan, Tim Carey, Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Donal Ryan and President Michael D HigginsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    35 min
  2. Writing the Bog, Part 1

    7 SEPT

    Writing the Bog, Part 1

    Stories of the Irish boglands, past, present and imagined future, in collaboration with the Irish Architecture Foundation's Bog Bothy project, with Margaret Hickey, Niamh Donnellan, Karen McHugh, Anthony Baggott, Emmett Scanlon and Claire CotterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    37 min

  3. 31 AUG

    Back-to-school blues, Thackeray’s Irish tour, and Dev’s favourite transport

    Ireland’s State Coach, the bittersweet first day of school, Thackeray’s travels in Ireland and young boys robbing orchards, with Jonathan White, Zoë Devlin, Enda Wyley, Lourdes Mackey, John MacKenna, Grace Wells and Tom ConatySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    36 min

  4. 24 AUG

    Exam Jitters and Curtain Raisers

    Leaving result anxiety, fox cubs by moonlight and meeting Mícheál MacLiammóir -- and a new poem from Paul Muldoon. With Denise Blake, Emma Prunty, Kathy Donaghy, Denis Tuohy, John MacKenna and Paul MuldoonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    33 min

  5. 17 AUG

    Angels, Animals and Daughters of Memory

    From the shores of West Kerry to Dublin city’s Georgian squares, to a Traveller man’s campfire – a special programme on Ireland’s treasure trove of shared heritage, marking National Heritage Week, with Eimear Ryan, Theo Dorgan, Colin Regan, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Oein DeBharduin and Paula MeehanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    41 min

  6. 10 AUG

    Oasis, Owls and a Wildean Whodunnit

    Marmalade sandwiches and illicit pints of Guinness, and the human tremors and reverberations of history from the Baltic Way to the atrocity of the atom bomb. With David Coughlan, Maeve Edwards, Joe Taylor, Denise Blake, Conor Hanratty and Mary O’DonnellSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    36 min

  7. 3 AUG

    Night Owls and Guardian Angels

    Fairytales and boarding school blues, travelling light and a treasured sewing machine: a Miscellany archive dip with Michael Harding, Eugene McEldowney, Vona Groarke, the late Peter Jankowsky, Geraldine Mitchell, Kieran Fagan and the late Mary Russell, who died recentlySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    37 min

  8. 27 JUL

    Dreaming in Green and Gold

    All-Ireland football hopes from Kenmare to Killybegs, Leonard Cohen’s magical Lissadell concert, and more, with John Toal, Regina Devenney, John S Doyle, Tony Griffin, Noel King, Denise Blake and John CooneySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    34 min
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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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  • Channel
    RTÉ
  • Creator
    RTÉ Radio 1
  • Years Active
    2007 - 2025
  • Episodes
    102
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 RTÉ Radio 1
  • Show Website
    Sunday Miscellany

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