Podcasts by Sunday Miscellany
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Stormy seas, farewells and new beginnings, and saluting the late, great, Pele from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.984915
Bleary farewells and new year beginnings, stormy western seas, Jane Austen's nieces' Donegal connection, and remembering the great Pele, with Neil Hegarty, Emer O'Kelly, Conor Hanratty, Karl O'Nei...
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Sisters, Showmen and a Secret Scripture from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.981925
Re-published due to earlier technical issues - featuring St Francis and the moving crib, Joe Dolan and Dennis O'Driscoll remembered, and UL at 50, with Nollaig Rowan, Kevin McDermott, Mary Wall, Ma...
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Family Ties and an Epiphany from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.978751
Showbusiness families and the ties that bind, with Ferdia MacAnna, Conall Hamill, Emer O’Kelly, Nollaig Rowan, Olive Travers and Lani O’Hanlon
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Behan, Brigid and basking sharks from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.969005
Saints and swallows, the early days of Dublin Airport, and Brendan Behan’s love of the sea, with Blanaid Behan, Conall Hamill, Máirín O’Malley, Jim Culleton, Rachael Hegarty, Noelle Lynskey and Joh...
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Birdwatching, Babycham and Pelé from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.955925
Fawns and foxes, birdwatching and Babycham, and Pelé’s Dalymount date, with Feargal Ó Dubhghaill, Margaret Galvin, Desmond Traynor, Ann Marie Durkan, Brian Farrell and Catherine Foley
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Rugby Ghosts and Breaking Bread with Bacall from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.939215
Meeting Lauren Bacall, Gonzaga College’s triumph and Camille Souter’s vivid art, with Marion O’Dwyer, John O’Donnell, Emer O’Kelly, Alannah Robins and Neil Hegarty
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Sunflowers and Easter Lilies from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.892256
John Huston, Hedy Lamarr, the Good Friday Agreement at 25 and Bach’s St Matthew Passion in Leipzig, with Maria Hayden, John McDonald, Hester Scott, John F Deane, John Toal and Vincent Woods
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Royalty and Riverkeeping from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.884330
Birds, bees, the Boyne, the Shannon, and keeping faith with The Boss, with Vincent Kenny, Cathal Ó Gallchóir, Kerry Neville, Grace Wells, Kevin Connolly and Elma Walsh
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The perfect Sunday fry, nosy neighbours and the meaning of individuality from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.876235
The perfect Sunday fry, nosy neighbours at a house viewing and what it means to be an individual. An archive selection from the 1970s to the 1990s, with William Wall, Bernice Harrison, John Ryan, E...
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Live at Belfast Book Festival from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.855409
A special programme on the theme of home and belonging, recorded recently at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, with Cherry Smyth, Wendy Erskine, Mícheál McCann, John Toal and Maureen Boyle
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Home and Belonging: Northern voices from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.850135
Swift boxes, borders and safe places to nest: More live recordings from Ballyshannon, Derry and most recently, the Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, with writers Neil Hega...
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The history of photography in Ireland, the Irish relationship with time, and an encounter with Frank O’Connor from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.796280
A selection from the Sunday Miscellany archives, from the 1970s to the 1990s - with Nuala Hayes, John Ryan, Peter Jankovsky, Aidan Carney, Judith Hoad and Eamon Keane
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A tribute for Seamus Heaney on his tenth anniversary from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.779173
Earthed lightning, letters of freedom, and a late love poem: a celebration of the late Seamus Heaney to mark his tenth anniversary. With Grace Wells, Gerald Dawe, Denise Blake, Mícheál McCann, Seam...
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Childhood Talents and Travellers Tales from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.760470
A talent for losing things, a teenage emigrant at large in London, and the sounds and colours of the island of Iona. With Anthony Glavin, Enda Coyle Greene, Liz Nugent, John F Deane and Enda Wyley
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A cinema paradise, Irish aviation history and finding grey hairs from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.757433
Memories of a cinema paradise, Ireland’s early contribution to global aviation history and a mother’s reaction to her daughter's first grey hair. With Dermot Bolger, Kathy Donaghy, Patrick Griffin,...
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Clowns, Carnivals and Paving Paradise from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.748345
Apples, pears and a bad-tempered pierrot, and saluting Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi, with Pat Dunne, Andrea Carter, Ciarán Cannon, Alice Lyons, John MacKenna and Lani O’Hanlon
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The Big Snow of 1982; freezing winter dips at the Forty Foot; and a pilgrimage to Shakespeare’s hometown from 2023-12-13T17:11:22.580414
A selection from the Sunday Miscellany archives, from the 1960s to the 1990s – with Aodhán Madden, Mervyn Wall, Patricia O’Reilly, John Ryan, Rita Normanly, Stephen Rynne and Brendan Kennelly
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A Christmas Baby and a Battered Menorah from 2023-12-10T13:15
From a magical Waterford bookshop at Christmas to the library of Alexandria, the journey of the Magi to a snowy homeward trek… with John Egan, Enda Wyley, Peter Cunningham, Judith Mok, Catherine ...
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JFK and a Furry Rabbit from 2023-11-26T12:25
The tang of the Atlantic, a stenographer for JFK, Thanksgiving Irish style and a small furry rabbit, with Alexander McMaster, Margaret Kelly, Michael Harding, Sinéad Ingoldsby, Kathy Donaghy and ...
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Trysts, Teenagers and Poets from 2023-11-20T12:04
Ghostly encounters, poetic presences, and a recalcitrant car, with Gerald Dawe, Mia Döring, Brian Leyden, Catherine Foley, Dermot Bolger, James Harpur and Lani O’Hanlon
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Conkers, Beatle Boots, and Remembrance from 2023-11-12T12:06
Emigration pangs, the Beatles in Dublin, the snows of Leadville and the freedom of small nations, with Peter Trant, Sheila Maher, Joseph Kearney, Pat Dunne and the late Eileen Battersby
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Saints, souls and old ghosts from 2023-10-29T12:28
Halloween bonfires, Dracula’s origins, an island evacuation and the courage of Hugh O’Flaherty, with Declan Hughes, Breda Joyce, Patrick Griffin, Rachael Hegarty, Joseph O’Connor and Gráinne Quinlan
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Sing Sing Sing from 2023-10-22T13:27
On a brave busking debut, joining a choir, and the hush that falls when an extraordinary voice starts to sing: the place of music and song in our lives in Dublin, with Kevin Connolly, Denise Blake,...
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Live in Leitrim from 2023-10-15T12:24
Gauls, gossamer, and marram grass, and finding refuge – a special Sunday Miscellany from the Iron Mountain Festival recorded at the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, with Brian Leyden, Mary Byrne, Zak Mora...
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Red Shoes and Raindrops from 2023-09-24T12:19
Silver at the Ploughing, playful national stereotypes, and Dublin city architect Herbert Simms’s extraordinary achievement, with Rory Gleeson, Fran O’Rourke, Lani O’Hanlon, Tim Carey, Bernadett Bud...
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Home movies and heavenly spheres from 2023-09-17T12:26
A second chance at learning to read, and other journeys through education, memory, arts and crafts and more, with John Forkin, Barbara Scully, Justin MacCarthy, Grace Wilentz, Lani O’Hanlon and G...
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Youthful longings, new beginnings and Father Ted as a young man from 2023-09-11T10:24
Mythical lands, new beginnings, an unforgettable fellow-student and the kindness of strangers. A mix of new and recent archive recordings with Conall Hamill, Mary O'Donnell, Fred Tuite, Olive Trave...
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Horticulture, Hardy and Honouring Our History from 2023-08-27T14:20
A transcendent experience at the Botanic Gardens, reflections on the Famine and the Irish language and a lifelong passion for the novels of Thomas Hardy. Sunday Miscellany features Valerie Waters, ...
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Fizzy Drinks and Sole Searching from 2023-08-20T15:20
Summer in Viareggio, Venetian fizzy delights, Seventies TV and Robert Graves at home, with Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Gerry Moran, Alan Finnegan, Catherine Foley, Mary O’Donnell and John F Deane
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Heritage Week Special from 2023-08-13T12:56
Celebrating architecture and landscape, story and song, and the hidden histories contained in our country's archives, a special programme to mark National Heritage Week with Virginia Teehan, Mícheá...
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The All-Ireland Football Final from 2023-07-30T12:39
A special programme as Kerry battles Dublin for the All-Ireland, with memories also of past glorious victories for Cork, Galway and more, with Joe Ó Muircheartaigh, Brendan O'Sullivan, Pat Cunningh...
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All-Ireland Hurling Special from 2023-07-23T11:59
Kilkenny hopes, Limerick dreams, “horlinge” through the ages and an umpire hangs up his boots, with Joe Kearney, Lourdes Mackey, Stephen O’Byrnes, John Kelly, Gerry Moran and Feargal Purcell
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The forgotten Yeats Sisters and Breaking New Grounds in Fashion from 2023-07-16T13:17
Breaking new ground in arts, crafts -- and fashion; the pioneering Yeats sisters; and why everyone’s dog is the best dog with writers Eunan MacKinney, Michael O’Loughlin, Joanne Hynes, Lani O’Hanlo...
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Tango dancing, Tutenkhamen and a golden Wimbledon ticket. from 2023-06-25T13:53
Tango dancing, a golden Wimbledon ticket, musical glory days, dancing friends and Dev, with Antonia Gunko Karelina, John Egan, Gerald Dawe, Roslyn Dee and Charles Lysaght.
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Philosophers and Father Figures from 2023-06-19T13:34
Poets, pirates, penitents, AE, Matt Talbot, a garden gnome, and plans for the summer solstice, with Joe Kearney, Fran O’Rourke, Katrina Bruna, Gavin Corbett, Grace Wells and Rachael Hegarty
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Ulysses for Beginners from 2023-06-11T12:16
A Bloomsday special recorded for the centenary of Joyce's epic novel in the Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. With Rachael Hegarty, Emer O’Kelly, Joseph O’Connor, Sara Keating, Declan Ki...
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Bogmen and Border Crossings from 2023-05-28T12:58
Turf footing, a silent retreat and a Communion day in Cahir, with Colin Regan, Niamh Campbell, Peter Cunningham, Frank Shouldice, Margaret Galvin and Vincent Woods
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River Walks and Lazy Sundays from 2023-05-21T12:13
Gentle strolls and the morning commute, the Mendelssohns and the Wyse Powers, and a dark day in Dublin and Monaghan, with Katrina Bruna, Daniel Mulhall, Kate Carty, Kevin McDermott and Lorna Siggins
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Trains, telephones and tender love from 2023-05-14T13:15
Telephone conversations, travel woes, dashed dreams and devoted love, with Nicole Flattery, Conall Hamill, Rory Gleeson, Barbara Scully, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and John F Deane
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Royal Visits and Tupperware Wars from 2023-04-30T11:49
The glory days of advertising, a fjord in Mayo and a maypole in Finglas, with Liz Houchin, Pat Dunne, Phlip Judge, Dermot Bolger, Rachael Hegarty, John F Deane and Catherine Foley.
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Sleepless Nights and Shakespeare’s Birthday from 2023-04-24T11:06
A border centenary, Venice in Shakespeare’s day, outsiders, memory and forgetting, with Peter Trant, Elizabeth Oxley, Pauline Kelly, Tim Carey, Elizabeth Power and Vincent Woods
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Birds, Bards and Goodbye 252 from 2023-04-16T12:20
President Theodore Roosevelt’s Irish obsessions, farewell to Long Wave 252, and a birdman at the bottom of the garden, with Daniel Mulhall, Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, Emer O’Kelly, Paul Hughes, Lani...
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Rome on the eve of WW2, an encounter with Siobhán McKenna, and the town of Killarney through the eyes of illustrious visitors from 2023-03-26T11:33
A selection from the Miscellany archive from the 1970s and 1980s, with writers Mervyn Wall, Val Mulkerns, Dominic Roche, Patricia O’Reilly, Benedict Kiely and Eric Cross
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Skipping Mothers and a Patrick’s Day Donkey from 2023-03-20T11:38
Memorable moments of motherhood, rebel songs and a glorious St Patrick’s Day parade, with Maeve Edwards, James Harpur, Clare Monnelly, Pier Kuipers, Geraldine Mitchell, Colin Regan and Claire Garvey
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Revolution, Rugby and U2 from 2023-03-12T11:15
The night U2 became U2, the extraordinary life of million selling novelist, Ethel Voynich, and wild Irish words, with Michael McNamara, Deirdre McQuillan, Peter Francis, Manchán Magan, Catherine Fo...
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Tanks, Pickles and An Cailín Ciúin from 2023-02-26T13:21
A terrifying World War II encounter, Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty’s courage, a life changing summer in Germany and a mysterious jar of pickles, with James Harpur, Felicity Hayes-McCoy, Mark Brennock, ...
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Farewell Filthy Lucre from 2023-02-19T12:22
A departing bank and a cash free society, forgotten revolutionary Darrell Figgis and fiddler Mickey Finn, with Sharon Hogan, Peter Cunningham, Chris McHallem, Margaret Galvin, Joe Kearney and Miria...
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Eggs, Cakes and Collies from 2023-02-12T12:17
Jane Austen’s Irish love, a pair of border collies, a basket of eggs and Schubert’s Trout Quintet, with Paula Shields, Lourdes Mackey, Jody Clarke, Sara Shine, Lani O’Hanlon, John F Deane and Vince...
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Casablanca, Churchill and Ford Fiestas from 2023-01-29T13:08
Brussels brunches, birthday feasts and "little cow" fudge in the Warsaw ghetto, with Frank Kavanagh, Noelle Lynskey, Oliver Sears, John MacKenna and Charles Lysaght
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Sunshine and Stargazing from 2023-01-22T12:18
Face blindness and body work, sun, stars, and seeing infinity in a grain of sand, with Dermot Bolger, William Wall, Mary O’Donnell, Rita Ann Higgins, Lani O’Hanlon and John F Deane
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Godot and old ghosts from 2023-01-15T12:32
Home remedies and medical miracles, vanishing Dublin and 70 years of Waiting for Godot, with Alan Graham, Margaret Galvin, William Wall, Aoife Barry, Liam Lally and John F Deane
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A Christmas crib, footsteps in the snow and the story behind Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. from 2022-12-25T13:46
Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests: a mix of new and archive recordings from this annual event, recorded at the National Concert Hall. Singers Róisín O’Reilly, C...
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Live at Christmas with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra from 2022-12-18T14:15
Bats, flies, Santa Claus malfunctions and seasonal homecomings - Part 1 of the festive celebration, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests, conducted by Gavin Maloney. With writers Decla...
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5th July 2020 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.699555
Jonathan White on Bob Sheppard, the voice of Yankee Stadium; Denise Blake's new baby telegram; Sheila Killian on a lost glove and an anti-war march; Joe Ó Muircheartaigh on missing Wimbledon and re...
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2nd August 2020 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.680944
Sunday Miscellany Live at the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, recorded to celebrate 200 years of the harbour in 2017, with writers Joseph O’Connor, Nuala Ní Domhnaill, Evelyn Conlon, Gerald Dawe...
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Sunday Miscellany Podcast, 6th September 2020 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.648217
In this programme, exam result anxiety… a delightful friendship forged in Belfield… re-reading Brian Keenan’s memoir of captivity in Beirut, and more, with Norma McMaster, Roslyn Dee, John MacKenna...
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4th October 2020 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.587569
A poetry-infused Sunday Miscellany with childhood memories of Robert Frost in New Hampshire from Jerusha McCormack; a mother's delight in the words of Patrick Kavanagh by Jim Sperin; and a tribute ...
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8th November 2020 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.560543
On this programme: Ghosts and graveyards... boozy bohemia... and a monkey in a television studio -- what could go wrong? -- all part of the mix on this week's Miscellany. With writers Jonathan Wh...
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6th December 2020 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.547618
In this programme: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s briefest of visits to their Clew Bay Island... Remembering Liam Clancy’s genius... swapping singing for the adrenalin rush of outdoor sea swimming... ...
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3rd January 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.537202
New Year meditations... snow longings... The Lass of Aughrim... and a winter bonfire... with John O'Donnell, Lani O'Hanlon, Mary O'Donnell, Tim Carey, Michael O'Connor and John F Deane
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Belfield Days, 31st Jan 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.488795
Belfield Days: a special programme marking 50 years of University College Dublin’s Belfield Campus, with writers Gerry Stembridge, Ellen Rowley, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Paul Rouse, Eilis O’Brien and Dai...
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7th February 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.481685
Neapolitan delights. pyrotechnics in Portobello... turf wars . evolving burial rituals... and remembering designer Sybil Connolly, in her centenary year with Henrietta McKervey, William Wall, Deird...
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PODCAST Highlights from Sunday Miscellany Live in Ennis from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.475802
Highlights from past Sunday Miscellany Live in Ennis shows as part of Ennis Book Club Festival in Glór, Ennis. Rescue donkeys, interrailing incidents, the newspaper preferences of the people of Mil...
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7th March 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.472154
Horsewhips and hatpins, ill-fated statues, Gary Halpin's random act of kindness and Mary Wollstonecraft's pioneering feminism... with Conall Hamill, Lourdes Mackey, Michael O'Loughlin, Mae Leonard,...
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2nd May 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.453612
A life changing phone call, a hug-fest, watching the Chernobyl disaster unfold from the Irish Embassy in Moscow and more........ with Peter Trant, Joe Hayes, Angela Keogh, Catherine Foley, Gerry Mo...
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4th July 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.437323
Emigrant tales, the voice of the Yankees and the perennial pull of home… with Jonathan White, Denise Blake, Nollaig Rowan, Tim Carey and Tom Ryan
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1st August 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.383902
A celebration of Yeats and Sligo. This special programme, first broadcast in 2015, was recorded at Drumcliffe Church as part of the Tread Softly festival. It was produced by Aoife Nic Cormaic.
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8th August 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.380521
Stone-carving, painting, woodturning... and a little Kilkenny hurling. Marking 50 years of Irish craft, a selection from the Sunday Miscellany archive with a live show recorded in 2011 at the Water...
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5th September 2021 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.351546
St Anthony's special powers, Mayo and Tyrone in the heart and soul, and the Mayor of the World Trade Centre... With Helen O'Rahilly, Eoin Pól Ó Rúis, Aida Lennon, John MacKenna and Kate Kerrigan
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3 Oct 2021 - Shortcuts, Seán Ó Riada and Walter Scott from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.344210
Walter Scott in Ireland, the golden age of the horse in Dublin, and remembering Seán Ó Riada, with Dan Mulhall, Barbara Scully, Catherine Foley, Ann Marie Durkan, Joe Kearney and Declan Collinge
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7 November 2021: Wilde, Cohen, river gods and matinee idols from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.287667
Oscar Wilde in November, appreciating Dublin's Custom House, and a Leonard Cohen requiem, with Cathy Sweeney, Tim Carey, Louise Kennedy, Brian Farrell, John MacKenna and Catherine Foley
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5 December 2021: Winter Solstice, Séamus Ennis and Count John McCormack from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.273668
Diaspora yearnings, an alternative winter solstice, an audience with Samus Ennis and Christmas with the Count, with Jim Galvin, Christina Park, Tom McGurk, James Harpur, Lourdes Mackey and Mary Maher
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Podcast: 2 Jan 2022 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.187271
Remembering the big snow of 1982... teaching your mother to waltz... and celebrating Boss Croker, Peg Woffington, and other real life figures in Joyce’s Ulysses with Maeve Edwards, Daniel Mulhall,...
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Podcast 6 Febuary 2022 Ulysses at 100: birdwatching, birthdays and Joyce in Trieste from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.161081
Ulysses at 100: birdwatching, birthdays and Joyce in Trieste Birdwatching on Sandymount Strand, the trailblazing Wyse Powers and Joyce’s obsession with his own birthday, with Fionn Ó Marcaigh, G...
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6 March 2022: Wild words as Gaeilge and memories of Kyiv from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.147009
Wild words as Gaeilge from the Dingle peninsula, snowdrops, chocolates and the city of Kyiv through the decades, with Manchán Magan, Peter Trant, Bernadett Buda, Catherine Foley, Grace Wells, Joe H...
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Fathers and sons, moments of catharsis and Milo O’Shea, 3 April 2022 from 2022-04-21T17:42:01.099729
A fraught father-son relationship, a lost friend, and Milo O’Shea remembered, with Joe Dowling, Oliver Sears, Margaret Galvin, John MacKenna, AM Cousins, Rosyln Dee and Grace Wilentz
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Easter Sunday, 17 April 2022: Pet lambs and Easter eggs from 2022-04-19T12:00
Pot-bellied pet lambs, unopened Easter eggs, composer Maurice Ravel and a monastic retreat on Caldey Island, with John Toal, Jonathan Duignan, Mae Leonard, Margaret Galvin, John F Deane, Leo Cullen...
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Podcast, 10th April 2002 from 2022-04-11T12:00
Dreamy journeys by bus, a lost 1916 dispatch, and the opera houses of Tirana, Berlin and Odessa, with Michael O’Connor, Frank Shouldice, Lourdes Mackey, Frank Kavanagh, Eva Bourke and John F Deane
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7th June 2020 from 2022-04-04T07:51:16.084642
On today's programme, Shakespeare, serenity and sitting out Italia 90… With Colin Murphy, Pat Hanratty, Aoife Barry, Leo Moran and Bibi Baskin
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27 March 2022: Soap bubbles, speech therapy and a Mother’s Day card from 2022-03-28T12:00
Soap bubbles and speech therapy, a couch collector, a Kurdish boy in Ballyshannon, and Mother’s Day labours of love, with Margaret Galvin, Dermot Bolger, Olive Travers, Denise Blake, Joe Whelan an...
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20 March 2022: The wearing of the green, and Seán Keating remembered from 2022-03-21T12:00
The wearing of the green in Ireland and Pakistan, new words for wine and painter Seán Keating remembered, with Gerald Dawe, Rosheen Callender, Mary Dowey, Bernadett Buda and Carla King
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13 March 2022: Football, feminism and friendship; the island of Montserrat’s Irish links; and “the lads that will never be old,” from 2022-03-14T12:00
Football, feminism and friendship; the island of Montserrat’s Irish links; and “the lads that will never be old,” with Joe Kearney, Yvonne Judge, John Toal, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Cona...
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27 Feb 2022 Lost in Paris and breakfast with John Wayne from 2022-02-28T12:00
Meeting John Wayne, a wanderer in Paris, the tenements of Edinburgh and more, with Paddy Murray, Maïa Dunphy, Margaret Galvin, Grace Wilentz, Bert Wright, Kathleen Murphy and Michael O’Loughlin
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20 Feb 2022 Zoom comedy, Leland Bardwell and the nature of home from 2022-02-21T12:00
Comedy on Zoom, places that feel like home, and writer Leland Bardwell remembered, with Conor Horgan, Jody Clarke, Pauline Shanahan, Brian Leyden, Joe Kearney, Barbara Scully and Vincent Woods
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3rd May 2020 from 2022-02-21T10:58:36.463315
This week we re-broadcast a special live programme from University of Limerick with writers Joseph O’Connor, Mary O’Malley, Donal Ryan, Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Mae Leonard and William Keohane with ...
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13 February 2022 Lockdown love, St Valentine, and a poem for Vicky Phelan from 2022-02-13T12:00
Mountain light, lockdown love, a prayer to St Valentine and more, with John MacKenna, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Joe Whelan, Margaret Galvin, Rachael Hegarty and Denise Blake
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5th April 2020 from 2022-01-31T06:20:47.989177
Donkeys, mindfulness, penniless poets, wardrobe malfunctions...and finding serenity these anxious days. With Maurice Crowe, Barbara Scully, Chris McHallem, John F Deane, Mary Jane Boland, and Denis...
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31 Jan 2022: Anne Frank, Free Derry and Joyce’s favourite song from 2022-01-30T12:00
Joyce’s wartime refuge and his favourite song, Bloody Sunday remembered, and the day Otto Frank came to visit, with Lorna Siggins, Máirín O’Malley, Seán Beattie, Fran O’Rourke, Judith Mok and Colet...
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Podcast 23 January 2022: Hurling, Burns and the Warsaw Ghetto from 2022-01-24T12:00
A late blooming hurling career, the heart-searing songs of Robbie Burns – and “little cows” fudge in the Warsaw Ghetto, with Oliver Sears, Margaret Galvin, Tim Carey, Bert Wright, and Grace Wilentz
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Podcast, 16 January 2022 from 2022-01-17T12:00
The silence of the salt desert, the Mullers of Kilmore Quay, the wine of the Rubiayat and the genius of Jack B Yeats – A M Cousins, Dermot Bolger, Mary O'Donnell, Lani O'Hanlon and Niall McArdle
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Podcast 9 January 2022: Brian Friel Remembered from 2022-01-10T12:00
Playwright Brian Friel remembered: marking the current production of Faith Healer at the Abbey Theatre and the recent RTÉ television documentary, Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman, we rebroadcast our ...
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25 December 2021: Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra from 2021-12-29T12:00
More from our annual live show at the National Concert Hall (mix of new and archive material) with special guests Olivia O’Leary, Manchán Magan, AM Cousins, Thomas McCarthy, Eavan Boland, Paul How...
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19 December 2021: Live at Christmas with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra from 2021-12-20T12:00
A Christmas show from the National Concert Hall with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Lisa Lambe, Cormac Kenevey, Conor Linehan, Caoimhe Ní Fhlatharta, Séamus Ó Flatharta, Lisa McInerne...
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1st March 2020 from 2021-12-19T06:44:36.183790
Adventures at sea... the pleasures of an open fire... and a press photographer’s special present from Charles Haughey. With writers Barbara Scully, Brian Farrell, Michael O’Connor, and music from t...
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8th March 2020 from 2021-12-19T06:44:36.182717
Inspiring grandmothers, fearless female journalists from Marian Finucane to Mary Kenny, and International Women’s Day under Communism. With Andrea Martin, Quentin Fottrell, Bernadett Buda, Gerald D...
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12 December 2021: Christmas Homecomings from 2021-12-15T12:00
Christmas homecomings, winter light, a turkey pluckers’ concert and sweet singing in the choir with Conor Horgan, Margaret Galvin, Rachael Hegarty, Niall McArdle, Kevin McDermott and John F Deane
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2nd February 2020 from 2021-12-06T04:24:03.439761
James Joyce’s Birthday by Gerry Moloney; The 59th Street Bridge – Feelin’ Ungroovy by Conall Hamill; Ulyssses by Emer O’Kelly; Peach Melba by Nollaig Rowan; Here’s To You, Jim Joyce, by Kevin McD...
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28 November 2021: Dervla Murphy at 90 from 2021-11-29T12:00
Celebrating travel writer Dervla Murphy’s independent mind and adventurous spirit, from Lismore to Delhi, Ramallah to Kabul: affectionate tributes from Lelia Doolan, Clare O’Grady Walshe, Patrick C...
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21 November 2021: Fashion queens, copper kings and Irish-American connections at Thanksgiving from 2021-11-22T12:00
A Cavan copper king, a New York fashion queen, and Irish American connections from Washington to Montana… a Thanksgiving-infused Sunday Miscellany, with Brian O’Donovan, Mary Coleman, Dan Mulhall, ...
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14 November 2021: Brendan Kennelly, wild geese and moonlight from 2021-11-15T12:00
Affectionate tributes to the late Brendan Kennelly, midnight moonlighters, wild geese and more, with Brendan Kennelly, Tom Clonan, Breda Joyce, Barbara Scully, Gerald Dawe and Paddy Moran
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5th January 2020 from 2021-11-02T04:29:07.540918
A mix of new and archive scripts: Skull and Bones by Niall McArdle; Boarding School Days by Catherine Foley; Old Hat, New Hat by Patrick Dunne; The Tree, the Trolley, and Me by Chris McHallem; And...
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31 Oct 2021: 31 October 2021: Brideshead, Halloween and the Hellfire Club from 2021-10-31T12:00
Revisiting Brideshead revisited, running your first marathon, and the Hellfire Club and the “wrong sort of tourist”, with Joe Kearney, Karen J McDonnell, Tom Ryan, Denise Blake, Maura Gilligan and ...
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24th October 2021- Opening night fireworks and Turkish Delight, a soprano at the window, and starlings in full song from 2021-10-24T12:00
Marking the 70th Wexford Festival Opera: stories, music and song from Wexford, with Margaret Galvin, Joe Brennan, Tom Mooney, Jackie Morrissey, AM Cousins and Sinéad O’Reilly
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17 October 2021 - Beloved pets, a visit to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and remembering Tony McMahon from 2021-10-17T12:00
Beloved pets, a visit to the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and remembering Tony McMahon, with Kevin McDermott, Ann Marie Durkan, Lani O’Hanlon, Grace Wilentz, Michael O’Connor, Declan Collinge and JM Dolan
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10 October 2021 - A fiddler’s farewell and a Ballyshannon Bluesmen from 2021-10-10T12:00
Fiddlers, bluesmen, small potatoes and big dreams: highlights from Miscellany Live at the Donegal Bay and Bluestacks Festival in recent years, with Martin McGinley, Little John Nee, Denise Blake, ...
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26th September - Farewell to Angela Merkel, kindness on the buses, and a poem for Evie Hone from 2021-09-26T12:00
Farewell to Angela Merkel, kindness and camaraderie on the buses, and a poem for Evie Hone, with Michele Kelly, John F Deane, Frank Kavanagh, Grace Wilentz, Catherine Foley, Olive Travers and John ...
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19th September - The Commitments, love graffiti and the Olympia cave-in from 2021-09-20T12:00
30 years of the Commitments, the first Alzheimer’s patient, and the show goes on at the Olympia. With Emer O’Kelly, Kevin McDermott, Jackie Lynam, William Wall and Rachael Hegarty
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12 September - Income tax, two Nualas and a nephew from 2021-09-12T12:00
Nuala O’Faolain on a bicycle in Brooklyn... the story of how income tax was invented... and making friends with your own first name, with
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29th August 2021 from 2021-08-29T12:00
Zoom calls and beauty contests, reading Hemingway, and the Italian "city of a thousand sails"
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22nd August 2021 from 2021-08-22T12:00
Limerick hurlers’ magical patterns, why Cork wear red, and meeting Christy Ring – an all-Ireland hurling final special.
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15th August 2021 from 2021-08-15T12:00
Celebrating architecture and landscape, story and song, and the hidden histories contained in our country's archives...?a special Sunday Miscellany programme to mark National Heritage Week.
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25th July 2021 from 2021-07-25T12:00
Sweltering summer days, Saturday night fever and a pilgrimage up the Reek, with Bernard Dunleavy, Mary Wall, Gerald Dawe, Mary O'Donnell, Lani O'Hanlon and James Harpur
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18th July 2021 from 2021-07-19T12:00
Youthful romance and rejection, summer at Duckett's Grove, Carlow, a Monaghan man’s link to Apollo 11, and unasked for advice from Maeve Binchy; with John MacKenna, Angela Keogh, Joe Kearney, Dani...
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11 July 2021 from 2021-07-12T12:00
Flying over France on a starry night, Hippolyte Jammet's Parisian hotel and other Franco-Irish connections, with Frank Keegan, Anne Marie Sheridan, John Hedigan, Darius Whelan and Grace Neville
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13 June 2021 from 2021-06-13T12:00
Literary feuds, a history of the Martello towers, and the origins of the first Bloomsday with Vincent Altman O’Connor, Tim Carey, Jane Clarke, Jimmy Murphy, Éabha Jones and, from the Sunday Miscell...
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30th May 2021 from 2021-05-31T12:00
A fight with an octopus… an adventure with a marmalade cat… and Reading in the Dark: remembering the late Derry writer, Séamus Deane with William Wall, Colette Bryce, Susan Weir, Justin Kilcullen, ...
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23rd May 2021 from 2021-05-24T12:00
Lazy Sunday afternoons, sun-dappled evenings back at hurling training, walking the Dodder, ageing well in an old house and Bob Dylan at 80 with Michael Foley, Conall Hamill, Jerusha McCormack, Kevi...
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16th May 2021 from 2021-05-17T12:00
Border crossings and earthquakes, the trials and tribulations of long term renting and an early brush with the concept of fake news… with Sian Quill, Oliver Sears, John Kelly, John Toal and Clare O...
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9th May 2021 from 2021-05-10T12:00
An emergency pet passport … close encounters with the art police… the remarkable life of Father Joseph Mallin, son of a 1916 leader and more, with Tom Clonan, Clodagh O'Donoghue, Chris McHallem, Ne...
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25th April 2021 from 2021-04-26T12:00
The agony and ecstasy of being a fan, from Arsenal to Bay City Rollers; a dinner fit for Shakespeare; and a poetry workshop with the late, much-missed Eavan Boland. With writers Frank Shouldice,...
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18th April 2021 from 2021-04-19T12:00
The end of the Sarajevo lockdown, the 80th anniversary of the Belfast Blitz, and the enduring power of music and song, with Mark Brennock, Olivia O’Leary, Gerald Dawe, John Toal and Lucy Caldwell
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11th April 2021 from 2021-04-12T12:00
Yuri Gagarin's extraordinary achievement... olfactory adventures in inter-railing... James Joyce’s own favourite, feathery Barnacle goose.... and birdwatching with Gerrit Van Gelderen: - with wri...
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28th March 2021 from 2021-03-29T12:00
A baseball legend’s moment of history, a remarkable story from the War of Independence, a Traveller woman’s crowning glory, lunch with John McGahern, Tony O'Malley's Good Friday paintings, with Jos...
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21st March 2021 from 2021-03-22T12:00
Stories and storytelling from the Aran Islands to Istanbul… retracing the steps of O’Sullvan’s march… and the cookery book that united Italy with John MacKenna, Roslyn Dee, Jody Clarke, William Wal...
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14th March 2021 from 2021-03-15T12:00
Set dancing, sweet things and an outrageous showman… seeking out a mother’s true identity… and a Hungarian visitor’s Irish fine dining experience: fish and chips on the Bray seafront. With Brian D...
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21st February 2021 from 2021-02-22T12:00
Curlews and sanderlings... bath time, dirty boulevards and old Beatles haunts... and the great friendship of Michael Davitt, Land League founder, and artist Sarah Purser with John MacKenna, Fionn Ó...
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14th February 2021 from 2021-02-15T12:00
Angels and sponge cakes … high notes and high ambition... and the golden talent of Patrick Scott with Conall Hamill, Jody Clarke, Lani O'Hanlon, Emer O'Kelly, John MacKenna and Vincent Woods
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26th January 2020 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Meditative moments at Mass and at sea; dancing to Für Elise, and Beethoven's wild, earthy, daimonic genius. With Barbara Scully, Oliver Sears, Evelyn Conlon, Kate Kerrigan and John F Deane
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24th January 2021 from 2021-01-25T12:00
Jack B Yeats’s canal bank walks, a marathon after-dinner speech, a terrible wartime event and more… With Dermot Bolger, Oliver Sears, Mary Dowey, Shaymus Kennedy and Roslyn Dee
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17th January 2021 from 2021-01-18T12:00
A bad-mannered saint, Belgian beer, Cajun Chicken, and bad manners at dinner... Plus we rebroadcast Lemn Sissay's powerful poem Fallen, honouring his birth mother, recorded at last year's Ennis Boo...
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10th January 2021 from 2021-01-11T12:00
Miracles and cures and healing wells... the problem of perpetual motion... what does vintage really mean? and the story of an Irish fashion trailblazer, Carmel Snow. With Conall Hamill, Deirdre McQ...
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27th December 2020 from 2020-12-28T12:00
Birthdays at Christmas time; tumultuous happenings of a century ago; and the things that got us through the year that was; with Colin Murphy, Lourdes Mackey, Nollaig Rowan, Aoife Barry, Síofra O'Do...
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25th December 2020 from 2020-12-28T12:00
An owl in a Christmas Tree, an unforgettable letter to Santa, Christmas catering with explosives, and more: a rich and delightful Christmas Miscellany with writers Paul Howard, Christine Dwyer Hick...
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20th December 2020 from 2020-12-21T12:00
Highlights from Sunday Miscellany Live at Christmas: past programmes recorded in the National Concert Hall with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in recent years, with writers Paul Howard; Michael Harding;...
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13th December 2020 from 2020-12-14T12:00
It's just over five years since we lost renowned playwright Brian Friel and 40 years since Field Day's seminal production of Translations at the Guild Hall in Derry. On this programme, a special Fr...
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29th November 2020 from 2020-11-30T12:00
On this week's programme, the bicycle as GAA freedom machine -- and in the writings of celebrated travel writer Dervla Murphy, who celebrates her 89th birthday this weekend. Also, Vaclav Havel's li...
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Sunday Miscellany Podcast Bloody Sunday Remembered from 2020-11-23T12:00
Bloody Sunday remembered, a special programme on the day of bloodshed that was 21 November, 1920 in Dublin, supported by the GAA Museum at Croke Park, with Chris Shouldice, Michael Foley, Anthony R...
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25th October 2020 from 2020-10-28T12:00
On this programme: Conquering a stammer; Saluting Angela Lansbury at 95; Running away from home -- and reconsidering; Wexford's Halloween customs involving cabbage -- and How the world responded to...
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18th October 2020 from 2020-10-19T12:00
In this programme: Home thoughts from abroad… a friendship forged in postwar Sarajevo… John 'Bower' Bradley and Lourdes Celtic Football Club... and Dublin City University at 40 with Frank Shouldi...
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11th October 2020 from 2020-10-12T12:00
This week a selection from Sunday Miscellany Live programmes at the Red Line Book Festival, recorded in the Civic Theatre in Tallaght in 2016 and 2017 broadcast to mark this year’s Red Line Book F...
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27th September 2020 from 2020-09-28T12:00
This week on Sunday Miscellany, tall tales and different kinds of truth… memories of the writer Frank O’Connor and the untold story of St Finbar; a programme from the archive marking the Cork Inte...
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20th September 2020 from 2020-09-21T12:00
Highlights from Culture Night shows past, recorded in Dublin Castle and Collins Barracks (Asgard Room) in recent years, with Paul Howard, Sharon Hogan, Deirdre Mulrooney, Conall Hamill, Martin Tour...
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13th September 2020 from 2020-09-16T12:00
Travel longings, travellers’ tales and beloved islands from Lambay to Iona – all part of the mix on today's programme with Mary O'Donnell, Leo Cullen, Denise Blake, A M Cousins and John F Deane
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30th August 2020 from 2020-08-30T12:00
Highlights from a live show in Ballyshannon as part of the Donegal Bay and Bluestacks festival last autumn, with Olive Travers, Patrick Hull, Little John Nee, Colin Regan, Denise Blake, Conor and ...
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23rd August 2020 from 2020-08-23T12:00
Handbags and glad rags; Sartre’s idea of hell… and a profile of Lady Margaret Huggins, Irish astronomer. With Eleanor Methven, Tim Carey, Chris McHallem, Mary Dowey and A M Cousins
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16th August 2020 from 2020-08-17T12:00
Misdirected phone messages… the “rule of three” -- and what does it mean when a bird flies into your house? with Pauline Shanahan, Brian Leyden, Emer O'Kelly, Lani O'Hanlon and Michael Kelly
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9th August 2020 from 2020-08-10T12:00
In the week Ireland mourns the loss of visionary leader John Hume, we rebroadcast our joyful programme from the Derry Playhouse celebrating the Civil Rights movement. First broadcast in October 201...
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26th July 2020 from 2020-07-26T12:00
"I never thought it was strange that my father went to work clean as a new pin, and returned covered from head to toe in thick black coal dust." This week writers remember the Arigna coal mines 30...
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19th July 2020 from 2020-07-20T12:00
Youthful hopes and dreams... ghost ships of old and modern times.. an all important spare single shilling... and one of Belfast's darkest days. With Brian Farrell, Carol Nicholas, Andrew Doherty, ...
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12th July 2020 from 2020-07-12T12:00
Summer jobs and suspicious minds... basil, Bolivia and Bob Marley... and Abbé Edgeworth, the Longford-born priest who played a heroic role in French history. With John Hedigan, Rachael Hegarty, An...
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28th June 2020 from 2020-06-28T12:00
Beer and kindness in Bordeaux, Cór Chúil Aodha's hotline to heaven, JFK in Ireland; the family you choose for yourself, and Jean Lurçat's visions. With Noel Harrington, Catherine Foley, Deaglán de ...
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21st June 2020 from 2020-06-21T12:00
Fathers, bicycles, and a missing statue... And Italia 90 in the best company. With John Egan, Chris McHallem, Catherine Foley, Paula Murphy, Sheila Maher and Gerald Dawe
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14th June 2020 from 2020-06-14T12:00
Songs, stories and Joyce’s idea of what makes a nation... with Fran O'Rourke, Conall Hamill, Breda Reid, Barry McCrea and Deirdre Mulrooney
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31st May 2020 from 2020-05-31T12:00
Listowel Writers' Week at 50: highlights from live shows at the festival over the years. With Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Róisín Whelan, Cyril Kelly, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Seamus Heaney, and mu...
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24th May 2020 from 2020-05-24T12:00
Remembering the Heysel stadium disaster... coping with a pet cat who dislikes you... and tributes to the late Eavan Boland. With writers Rachael Hegarty, Mary O’Malley, John MacKenna, John O'Donne...
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17th May 2020 from 2020-05-17T12:00
Confessions of a devoted Johnny Logan fan, A father's war memories; Sifting through the motherlode of keepsakes; Farewell, again, to Bewleys; In grief and lockdown, a chink of light: with Roslyn ...
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10th May 2020 from 2020-05-10T12:00
Front line defenders and local heroes... a New York friendship under lockdown... and the love story of the late Tiede and Elisabeth Herrema. With writers Frank Shouldice, Helen O'Rahilly, Christoph...
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26th April 2020 from 2020-04-26T12:00
Cold water swimming, Glen Hansard's other birthday and an Orangeman under the bed... With Brian Farrell, Jackie Lynam, Gerald Dawe, Karen Sorensen, Margaret Hickey, and Larry McCluskey
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19th April 2020 from 2020-04-19T12:00
In this programme: adventures in homeschooling, decluttering opportunities, Daniel O’Connell’s Notre Dame connection, a pandemic reading list and more with contributions from Barry McCrea, Kate Ker...
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12th April 2020 from 2020-04-12T12:00
Chocolate eggs and ice eggs, church bells and birdsong, tropical fish, the composer Ravel, and big and small acts of solidarity this Easter time... With Alan Finnegan, John Toal, Colin Murphy, Rach...
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29th March 2020 from 2020-03-29T12:00
A special programme from Ennis Book Club Festival recorded in Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare. With writers Sarah Moore Fitzgerald, Noel Harrington, Grace Wells, Joe Ó Muircheartaigh and Lemn Sissay and mus...
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22nd March 2020 from 2020-03-22T12:00
Meeting Captain Furillo from Hill Street Blues, the pleasures of a linen handkerchief, and Mother’s Day at a social distance… with writers Tim Carey, Mary Dowey, Geraldine Mitchell, Lemn Sissay, An...
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15th March 2020 from 2020-03-15T12:00
Adopting a grandfather, Dublin daffodils, and finding hope in these strange and uncertain times. With John Toal, Zainab Boladale, Chris McHallem, Barbara Scully, Leo Cullen and Rachael Hegarty
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23rd February 2020 from 2020-02-23T12:00
New words to describe wine, Ireland’s rugby nadir, contemplating Dante in a hospital waiting room, a history of quarantine and a postcard from Sam Beckett. With Mary Dowey, Donal Hayes, Mary O’Mall...
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16th February 2020 from 2020-02-16T12:00
Meditations on Maths, meeting the Hothouse Flowers, a visit to St Valentine and a missing Valentine's card... with Oliver Sears, Jackie Lynam, Olive Travers, Fred Johnston, Sara Shine and Rachael H...
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19th January 2020 from 2020-01-19T12:00
On today's programme: It Was All in the Stars by Bibi Baskin; The Daily Commute by Tim Carey; The French Connection by Darragh Kelly; Bees in the Roof Space, Humans in the House, a poem by Jean O’B...
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12th January 2020 from 2020-01-12T12:00
The Greatest by J M Dolan; Mending Our Ways by Margaret Hickey; Island Devotions, a poem by Geraldine Mitchell; Death in West Cork by Jody Clarke; Veronica McSwiney: How to Celebrate Eight Decades ...
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