Sunday Miscellany

From a mighty session in Dingle to Croagh Patrick to the Heinrich Böll cottage in Achill, an All-Ireland state of mind, with Séamus Moran, Grace Wells, John Lawler, Mary Lavery Carrig, Frank Shouldice and Geraldine Mitchell

Limerick and Galway All-Ireland hopes, a Ukrainian love story and the sweet pleasures of a day on the bog, with Antonia Gunko Karelina, Barry Houlihan, Anne Marie Kennedy, Mike MacDomhnaill, Ann Lane O’Connell, John Vincent Cunningham and Bob Kelly

High-achieving couples, musical ambitions, freedom in a pre-legislative life, learning to swim and the dangers hiding in plain sight....with Evelyn Conlon, Gemma Tipton, John MacKenna, Mary O'Malley, Pat Boran and Joe Kearney

A selection from the 2013 and 2014 archives, from Grace Wells, John MacKenna, AM Cousins, Sara Baume, Iggy McGovern, Susan Stairs and Cyril Kelly

Veronica Guerin remembered, a voyage into the past on a Donegal island, and a tribute to David Hockney, with Brian Farrell, Fiachra Gallagher, John MacKenna, Gail Seekamp, Billy Collins, Mícheál McCann and Moya Cannon

The father-daughter bond over books, football and furniture, Solstice meditations and remembering the great Tommie Gorman, with Christian O'Reilly, Ann Breslin, Paul Johnston, Nollaig Rowan, Grace Wells, Kevin McDermott and Durgham Mushtaha

Foxes, Fairy Paths and a Midnight Swim - (including some recordings from past Miscellany Live shows) with James Mulvihill, Cyril Kelly, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Enda Wyley, Jessica Traynor, Colin Murphy, Lorraine Nash, Boris Hunka & Diane Daly, Dónal Clancy and West Coast Sounds

Dandelions, foxgloves and bohemian trailblazers, life over John B Keane's pub and a friendship forged in literature and music — first of two programmes recorded in St John's Theatre, Listowel, with Joanna Keane O'Flynn, Zaffar Kunial, Elaine Garvey, Bernard O'Donoghue, Colum McCann, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, West Coast Sounds and Lorrraine Nash

Barefoot runs on Bettystown beach, summers at Dollymount, formative swims, a cliff walk and a fateful family boating trip. With Joe Rooney, Maeve Edwards, Romie Lambkin, Pat Boran, Mae Leonard, Peter Jankowsky and Grace Wells

Cowbells and baby birds, the highs and lows of Arsenal fandom, scaling Mount Brandon and saluting the extraordinary voice of Moya Brennan, with John Toal, Lani O’Hanlon, Oliver Sears, Eileen Heron, Philip Judge, Fr Alan Hilliard and Moya Cannon

Strawberries and sunshine, one family’s Census night story, a tribute to beloved poet Paul Durcan, and a gift of a lifetime… with Emer Casey, Pat Boran, Caroline Heffernan, AM Cousins, Mary O’Donnell and Tom Conaty

Secrets of the landscape and the art of songwriting; dogs, dharma and a jar of pickles, with Jim Culleton, Michael Cullen, Katrina Bruna, John Toal, John MacKenna, Grace Wells and Billy Collins

A runaway dog, the gift of music and football fever in Venice, with Zoë Devlin, Michael O’Loughlin, Tom Ryan, Roslyn Dee, Dermot Bolger and Grace Wells

A jazz legend and the joys of bus travel; delving into the Famine records of North Kerry, and a brown bread gift for Lauren Bacall. With Jim Doherty, Niamh Donnelly, Garrett Igoe, Marion O’Dwyer, Bryan MacMahon and Mícheál McCann

An unforgettable road trip, an Irish diplomat’s memories of the Chernobyl disaster and an archivist’s portal to McGahern Country, with John Egan, Carol Taaffe, Joe Hayes, Colin Regan, Antonia Hart and Barry Houlihan

A tribute to In Dublin Magazine, a visit to a Buenos Aires hurling club and advice to the young, with Tim Carey, Alexander McMaster, Grace Wells, Daniel Mulhall, Mary O’Donnell, Mary O’Malley and the late Gabriel Rosenstock

Radio waves and Roger Casement, a Rhode Island Red sisterhood and Semana Santa in Seville, with John MacKenna, Liz McSkeane, Rory Carroll, Doireann Ní Bhriain, Fiona Hyland, John F Deane and Tom Conaty

A special live programme from Wexford Opera House, originally broadcast for the centenary of the Easter Rising, with Billy Roche, AM Cousins, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Prionsías Ó Rathaille and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and music from the Contempo Quartet and more

Live from the Ennis Book Club Festival, including tributes to the late Nuala O’Faolain and Seán Rocks, with writers Niamh Campbell, Hugo Hamilton, Lemn Sissay, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne and Karen J McDonnell

Live at the Ennis Book Club Festival, with Anne Enright, Abi Daré, Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha, Mattie Brennan and Lemn Sissay, with music from Blackie O’Connell, Mickey Dunne, The Metals, Diane Daly, Boris Hunka, Liam Hunka, Katie Theasby, Ger O’Donnell

Butter and buttercups, teenage rites of passage, and a curly-haired girl… with Ciarán Cannon, Margaret Hickey, John MacKenna, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Antonia Gunko Karelina, Tom Conaty and Mary O’Malley

A tribute to the late, great poet, Michael Longley, the politics of dress code, a celebration of lambing season, and wild Dingle peninsula Irish words from the much-missed Manchán Magan...with Olivia O'Leary, Peter Cunningham, Kate O'Shaughnessy, Denis Tuohy and Catherine Foley

Triumph in Twickenham, diamonds and daffodils, and green shoots of hope in dark times, with Mark Horgan, Joseph O’Connor, Olive Travers, Carla King, John O’Donnell and Paul Muldoon

Bracing coastal waters, past-their-prime vessels and the glorious freedom of swimming, with Mae Leonard, Mervyn Wall, Benedict Kiely, Marie McSweeney, Gerald Dawe, Joe McGowan and Anne Le Marquand Hartigan

The comforts of home, the spaces we inhabit and the things we can't do without, with Maurice Craig, Treasa Brogan, Bill Hammond, Mary Arrigan, Fachtna Ó Drisceoil, Tommy Sands and Elaine Sisson

Magical woodlands, stone sanctuaries and divine intervention, with Val Mulkerns, Sam McAughtry, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Peter Jankowsky, Catherine Ann Cullen, Liz Nugent and Michael Harding

Labour-saving devices, hard labour, labouring cerebrally or otherwise, all forms of work are the theme of today's archive programme, with John Ryan, Angela O'Rourke, Lar Redmond, Benedict Kiely, James Plunkett and Sharon Hogan

Miscellany 50: The Archives was a special series that celebrated the writing Sunday Miscellany featured in its first 50 years. This programme focused on the theme of ‘ritual’ and featured Hilda Murphy, Nuala O'Faolain, Eamon Keane, Margaret Hawkins, Paul Dwyer, Sinéad McCoole and Tadhg Ó Dubhláine

Over the past 100 years, the seismic impact of Ireland's new public broadcasting service on individual homes, society and our political landscape, with Felicity Hayes-McCoy, the late JM Dolan, Gerard Stembridge, Margaret Galvin, John Toal and Olivia O'Leary

Wedding vows, thoughts of home and New Year wishes, from Sweden to Vancouver Island to Rostrevor, County Down, with Conall Hamill, Lani O’Hanlon, Neil Hegarty, Mattie Brennan, Denis Tuohy and Enda Wyley

Post-Christmas blues and a December birthday, angels of heaven and the origins of Gaelic football in Wexford, with Mary O’Donnell, John Toal, Jackie Lynam, Alison Ní Mháirtín, Paul Rouse, the late Manchán Magan and Eithne Hand (pic: Paula Malone Carty)

Palestrina in Rome, an outsize Santa suit, and gifts of kindness from the Liberties to Lagos… featuring recordings from the NCH with the RTÉ CO and more, with Eithne Shortall, Joseph O’Connor, John Toal, Quentin Fottrell, Rachael Hegarty, Chikere Ohoka, Lisa Lambe, the Palestrina Choir and Sarah Shine

A winter wedding, a New Year’s Eve disaster, a Christmas baby and balm for the broken-hearted…Part 1 of Christmas Miscellany with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests Kathleen MacMahon, Paul Muldoon, Mia Döring, Paul Howard, Cauvery Madhavan, the Palestrina Choir and Lisa Lambe

From Skerries to Strabane, East Galway to Alexandria: chance encounters, Christmastime musical delights and a deer of light, with Victoria White, Seán O’Gorman, Lisa McInerney, Jim Maguire, Judith Mok, Denise Blake and James Harpur

John and Yoko in County Mayo, Con Houlihan at 100 and a sniff of Christmas, with Donal Fallon, Louise Kennedy, Niall McArdle, Peter Cunningham Aidan Hynes and Helen O’Rahilly

George Best and Harry Gregg’s footballing friendship, a long-forgotten fire in the Liberties and a poet in Kinsale, with Roslyn Dee, Las Fallon, Sharon Hogan, John Toal, Oliver Sears and Enda Wyley

A special programme marking the anniversary of one of the worst days of violence of the War of Independence, with the support of the GAA Museum at Croke Park. With Colin Regan, Chris Shouldice, Michael Foley, Anthony Ryan, Anne Dolan, Paul Rouse and Louise Hogan

Ravens, crows and the last Irish wolf, diplomatic journeys and a poetry journal’s elegant farewell, with John MacKenna, Denise Blake, Zoë Devlin, Paul Muldoon, Nell Regan, Paul Johnston, James Harpur and Billy Collins

The art of persuasion, the pity of war and the sanctuary of home, with tributes to the late, great Conor Gearty and Sister Stanislaus Kennedy; the writers are Gerry Stembridge, Kathy Donaghy, Tess Hughes, John O’Donnell, Eileen Battersby and Rachael Hegarty

A prayer for Rudolf Valentino, fleeting memories and a snowy night of opera in St Petersburg, with Georg Grote, Louise Kennedy, Beth Kilkenny, Justin MacCarthy, Roslyn Dee and John F Deane

Silver sparks, a bog for a pillow and the ‘deserts of the midlands’… A ‘Writing the Bog’ special programme, part 2, in collaboration with the Bog Bothy project by the Irish Architectural Foundation and 12th Field, with writers Adam Trodd, Anne Gately Mercier, Kevin McDermott, Marion McGarry, Isabella Chiadini and Alexander McMaster

Creative discoveries from reading to singing to dancing to painting - a live selection from Waterford Writers’ Weekend and the Red Line Book Festival with Frankie Gaffney, the late Eileen Battersby, John Connell, Catherine Foley, AM Cousins, Rosaleen McDonagh, Kathleen Murphy, Donal Clancy, the Far Flung Trio and more

How do the places we build shape our lives? A programme marking Open House Dublin Festival of Architecture, with Éimear Arthur, Cormac Murray, Emmett Scanlon, Kevin Marinan, Graham Hickey, Julie Cruickshank and FELISPEAKS. Supported by the Irish Architecture Foundation

Saluting some treasures of our culture, language and landscape; remembering Brian Friel on his tenth anniversary, and a poem for the late, much-missed Manchán Magan with Dominic Dromgoole, Adam Trodd, Bernadett Buda, Aoife Barry, David Grant and Noelle Lynskey

Homecomings and departures, a friend for all seasons and tributes to Derek Mahon, Michael Hartnett and more, with Donal Hayes, Grace Wells, Joe Whelan, Mary O’Donnell, Mike MacDomhnaill, Beth Kilkenny and Mary O’Malley

September rituals and youthful rites of passage, with Paul Muldoon, Carol Taaffe, Conall Hamill, Georg Grote, Antonia Hart and Frank Shouldice

A re-broadcast of a special Culture Night Miscellany, hosted by President Higgins and Sabina Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin in 2024, with Manchán Magan, Tim Carey, Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Donal Ryan and President Michael D Higgins

Stories of the Irish boglands, past, present and imagined future, in collaboration with the Irish Architecture Foundation's Bog Bothy project, with Margaret Hickey, Niamh Donnellan, Karen McHugh, Anthony Baggott, Emmett Scanlon and Claire Cotter

Ireland’s State Coach, the bittersweet first day of school, Thackeray’s travels in Ireland and young boys robbing orchards, with Jonathan White, Zoë Devlin, Enda Wyley, Lourdes Mackey, John MacKenna, Grace Wells and Tom Conaty

Leaving result anxiety, fox cubs by moonlight and meeting Mícheál MacLiammóir -- and a new poem from Paul Muldoon. With Denise Blake, Emma Prunty, Kathy Donaghy, Denis Tuohy, John MacKenna and Paul Muldoon