Niamh Attends to the Sick of the Supermarket, a poem by Mícheál McCann
"They flock like brittle songbirds, chorusing after her to this impressively-sized Asda..."
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Sunday Miscellany
Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.
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One Time, a poem by AM Cousins
"Mr Heaney was at his desk, solid as the Sugarloaf, still cheerful after a day of lectures..."
The Abbey That Refused to Die, by John Egan
The kindly uncle who was instrumental in the restoration of 800-year old Ballintubber Abbey
Showers, Sobriety and Synonyms, by Bernadett Buda
Cross-border hands of friendship and getting to grips with Irish linguistic idiosyncracies
A Fax from Seamus Heaney, by Denis Tuohy
Rejection-guilt subsequently mollified by the eternal good grace of this world class poet and gentleman
Church Going, by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha
Why there's something special to be found in almost all places of worship, whatever your faith, your beliefs, or none at all
Heinrich Böll, by John F Deane
Post-war packages from Germany that make authorities nervous but were really literary treasures from the writer who made a home in Achill
The German Refugees of Limerick, by Jody Clarke
Centuries of refugees fleeing religious persecution and the Methodist who came to rest in Limerick's Golden Vale in 1765
Swimming Out to Caves along the Copper Coast, by Breda Joyce
The wondrous varieties of life that share the waters around Co Waterford
Soufflage at the Staatstheater, by Jim Culleton
An Irish-German theatrical exchange - a reminder of the vital role of culture in national identity
Autumn and Harvest, by Grace Wells
Autumn, a season that demands our gratitude and awe
We Close in October, by Georg Grote
Three friends on motorbikes, a torrential Irish summer and lifelong bonds secured along the Cork/Kerry coastline
An Extraordinary Engineer, by Declan Phillips
On a remarkable friendship with the engineer of the Twin Towers, Leslie Robertson
The Irish Brigids, by Máirín O’Malley
On the much-maligned Irish domestic servants in the US in the late 19th century
The Mayor of the World Trade Centre, by Helen O’Rahilly
How a childhood friend's destiny became entwined with the Ground Zero site
New York, New York, by Peter Cunningham
On an uncle's treasured gold watch and "the nicest man he ever met"
Memories of 9/11, by Jim Nolan
Supporting an American couple on holiday in Ireland in their hour of tragedy
Kindred Swallows, by Kathy Donaghy
Marvelling at the enchantment of travellers from southern Africa to a Donegal garden
The Blue Bag in the Corner, by John MacKenna
Losing Leonard, a labrador non-pareil
Donnybrook Fair, by Ann Marie Durkan
Brawling, carousing and sapient pigs at the famous Dublin festival through the centuries