

Sunday Miscellany
RTÉ Radio 1
Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.
Episodes
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Sep 7, 2025 • 37min
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.

Aug 31, 2025 • 36min
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.

Aug 24, 2025 • 33min
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.

Aug 17, 2025 • 41min
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.

Aug 10, 2025 • 36min
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.

Aug 3, 2025 • 37min
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.

Jul 27, 2025 • 34min
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.

Jul 20, 2025 • 35min
Hurling, Hitch-hiking and a Baby Elephant
Thumbing a lift, taming a feral cat, the story behind how Babs Keating became Tipperary’s “barefoot wonder” and a father’s love for Cork’s Na Piarsaigh, with Doireann Ní Bhriain, Joe Whelan, Cormac Murray, Theo Dorgan, Lani O’Hanlon and John AllenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 13, 2025 • 37min
Live Aid and Limpets
Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, and saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, with Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, Eunan McKinney, Mae Leonard, Alexander McMaster, Angela Keogh, Mariam Tell and Vincent WoodsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 6, 2025 • 34min
A New York State of Mind
Coat checks and cityscapes in New York City; preparing for a family wedding; and reflections on wearing wigs. With Gary Coyle, Neil Hegarty, Cathy Power, John Tuomey, Julie Feeny and Lauren GreenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.


