

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

Jul 21, 2024 • 35min
Radio Games and Hurling Dreams
Sliotars, Cork and Clare superstars and the incomparable Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh remembered, with John Cooney, Seamus McKenna, Róisín Bugler, Jim McKeon, Catherine Foley, Gerry O’Beirne and Éamonn Ó MuircheartaighSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 14, 2024 • 41min
French culture, Irish sporting history and the physical world
Finding inspiration in France, a slice of Ireland's sporting history and the importance of our physical world. With Judith Mok, Cathy Power, Alice Rekab, Andrew Clancy, Cornelius Browne, William Wall and Cyril KellySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 7, 2024 • 38min
Skyscrapers, painting by owl-light and wigs
Love and a family wedding, an architect’s New York, navigating Irish-African inheritances, wigs and being an artist and easel painting in Donegal. With Brendan Kennelly, Cathy Power, John Tuomey, Alice Rekab, Julie Feeney and Cornelius Browne.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 30, 2024 • 29min
Safe Harbours and a Selkie Song
Ways of Seeing 2: More words and music from Belfast Book Festival with Paul McVeigh, Marie Howe, John Toal, Mícheál McCann, Maria McManus, and music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna, Éimear McGeown, Donogh Hennessy and TrúSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 23, 2024 • 32min
Sunflowers, Spirit Animals and Ziggy Stardust
Live from Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre, Ways of Seeing: writers Jan Carson, Lucy Caldwell, Glenn Patterson, Emily Byers-Ferrian and Maria McManus with music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna and TrúSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 16, 2024 • 33min
Butterballs, Bullseyes and Bloomsday
Reflections on fatherhood, and literary Dublin’s first Joycean jaunt, with Patricia Joyce Oliver, Rory Gleeson, Donal Fallon, Ann Breslin and Oliver SearsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 2, 2024 • 34min
Celestial Considerations and Serendipity
A dip into the Miscellany archive with 1990s pieces by Michael Harding, Nicky Barry, Kevin O’Connor, Patricia O’Reilly, Catherine Ann Cullen and Peter Jankovsky – and a more recent poem from late, much missed poet, Gerald DaweSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 26, 2024 • 35min
Baby Birds and Barefoot Running
Thin Lizzy in Tramore, Brehon Brutalism in Ballsbridge, feathery feats of nature -- and the wisdom, or not, of meeting your heroes. With John Toal, Joe Rooney, Kathy Donaghy, Shane O’Toole, Lani O’Hanlon and Judith MokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 19, 2024 • 32min
Spring blooms and a batch loaf
Sea pinks on the Copper Coast, intimations of mortality in the Irish hawthorn tree, and ways of making a show of yourself, with Pat Boran, Peter Cunningham, Mary Hassett, Maeve Edwards and Lawrence WhiteSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 12, 2024 • 34min
Chieftains and Cherry Blossoms
Cows and cowboy boots, a rookie promoter’s first gig in Galway, and glory days of fun and friendship in Monet’s garden. With Maeve Edwards, Joe Kearney, Ollie Jennings, Philip Judge, Enda Wyley and Rachael HegartySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.


