Bringing Opera Home to Granddad, a poem by Cal O'Reilly
"The town fills its lungs full, and sweeps shawls and scarves and suits along streets…”
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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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20 of 176 episodes
Opera Nights, by AM Cousins
On volunteering for Zaide, starring a young Lesley Garrett
The Church of St Iberius: a Wexford Treasure, by Jackie Morrissey
Rich and complex Irish history is on display in this small Protestant church
Like A Bird on a Beam by Tom Mooney
The night the starlings gatecrashed the opera house
The Path That Led Me To Storytelling, by Joe Brennan
On growing up with the lore of Wexford
T'will Shorten the Winter, by Margaret Galvin
Man bags, scarves, and “the lads”, blessed with love
Rediscovering Carmen Bustamante, by Colm Tóibín
45 years on and this soprano's 3-minute Beethoven performance is still seared into the memory
T'will Shorten the Winter, by Margaret Galvin
Man bags, scarves, and “the lads”, blessed with love
Bog Casket, by Claire Cotter
The physical items inevitably subsumed by the bog - human and otherwise (pic: Marguerite Sheridan)
The Bog Bothy, by Emmett Scanlon
Why the Irish Architecture Foundation wanted to build a Bog Bothy in the midlands
The Bog, by Anthony Baggott
A childhood in the boglands taken for granted until it becomes a source of wonder for visitors
An Emigrant Bog-Dweller, by Karen McHugh
Translation challenges for the words 'turf' and 'bog' in cultures where they don't exist
The Old Bog Road, by Niamh Donnellan
Connecting with our Iron Age ancestors, who created something amazing in a bog in Corlea, Longford
Monakeeba Meditation, by Margaret Hickey
What it takes, and the knowledge you need, to become a 'true' Monakeeba bog woman
Pangur Bán and Audrey, a poem by the late Gordon Snell
‘Pen in hand, a monk sat, bored – This translation had him floored…’
Boys DO Cry, by Colin Regan
An emotional education in a Raphoe boarding school
Ada Yeates & Sisters, by Antonia Hart
On a pioneering female-led family business of scriveners in 19th Century Dublin
Our Way of Talking, by Denise Blake
On a few wee Donegal and Derry sayings
A Patch of Earth, by Jessica Freed
On the delights of taking charge of an allotment in Inchicore
Gordon Snell, Wizard, by Barry McCrea
A life-expanding correspondence with a beloved children’s author