Sunday Miscellany

RTÉ Radio 1
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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