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All Episodes

Sunday Miscellany — 146 episodes

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1

An Extraordinary Engineer, by Declan Phillips

2

The Irish Brigids, by Máirín O’Malley

3

The Mayor of the World Trade Centre, by Helen O’Rahilly

4

New York, New York, by Peter Cunningham

5

Memories of 9/11, by Jim Nolan

6

Kindred Swallows, by Kathy Donaghy

7

The Blue Bag in the Corner, by John MacKenna

8

Donnybrook Fair, by Ann Marie Durkan

9

Radio Days, by Stephen Brennan

10

Letter from Okinawa, by Michael Bradley

11

Bless You, by Molly Furey

12

School Principal, by Bryan Gallagher (from 1997)

13

The Spelling Bee, by Nuala Hayes (from 1997)

14

The Teacher Cried, by Kathleen Hardie (from 1997)

15

Schooldays, by Llewellyn Marcus Goodbody (from 1981)

16

The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives the Flower, by Mary O’Donnell (from 2005)

17

Marked Present, by Seamus Heaney (from 2008)

18

The Master’s Request, by Shane Fagan (from 1998)

19

Memory, by Seán Ó Faoláin (from 1975)

20

The Hurler's Seat, by Cathy Power (from 2004)

21

A Field Called Love, by Catherine Donnelly (from 1993)

22

Grafton Gallery, by John Ryan (from 1971)

23

Ghosts, by Louise Delaney (from 1995)

24

Remembering Seán Ó Tuama, by Eoghan Ó hAnluain (from 2006)

25

I am a Song, by Joseph O’Connor (from a 2018 Miscellany Live at the University of Limerick)

26

The Black Box, by Olivia O’Leary (from 2021)

27

A Musical Formation, by Norman Metcalfe (from 1974)

28

Luciano and Myself, by Lydia Carroll (from 1995)

29

The Education of A Page-Turner, by Christopher Fitz-Simon (from 1984)

30

The Power of Music, by Aideen O'Keefe (from 2003)

31

What Are We Like?

32

Feasting Galore and Glen’s Gift

33

Kerry Dances and Moonlight in Mayo

34

Blind Dates and Hurling Dreams

35

Aspirations, Idylls and Apiarists

36

Heroes, Haste and Pivotal Childhood Moments

37

Bravery, Beauty and Photographing Veronica

38

Fathers, Friends and Shakespeare in the Arctic

39

Live from Listowel Writers' Week (part 2)

40

Live from Listowel Writers' Week (part 1)

41

Beaches, Boats and Bathing

42

Bewitching Music and the Brendan Voyage

43

Missed Calls and Second Chances

44

Culture Shock and Swimming with Seals

45

Beauty and Birdsong

46

Bright Stars, Broadway and the Belfast Blitz

47

Unexpected Guests and a Whistling City

48

Fairytales, Faraway Places and Falling in Love

49

Easter Miscellany

50

Stories of the Rising from Wexford to Dublin

51

Old Friends and Youthful Dreams

52

From Clare to Here

53

Embers, Oscars and Gold from the Dairy

54

Melody, Meaning and Morning Dew

55

Rock Stars and Rugby Glory

56

Sea dips and serene cruises

57

Home comforts and ways of living

58

Magical childhoods

59

Working yourself, or watching others at it

60

Rituals at home, rituals in the community

61

A flash of pink, a magic box and a bird’s eye view

62

Roses, Rain and a Door Ajar

63

A Piano Man and a Wexford Ball

64

A Christmas Day Miscellany

65

Joy to the World: Christmas Miscellany Part 1

66

Songs, Seafarers and a Guiding Star

67

War Stories and Winter Light

68

Bicycles and Belfast Boys

69

Grief and History: Voices from Bloody Sunday, 2020

70

Old Friends and New Beginnings

71

Starry Skies and Student Rites-of-Passage

72

Ghosts, Goldcrests and a Lost Manuscript

73

A Last Briquette and a Magic Mountain

74

A Stolen Tulip and a Hare’s Eyes

75

Architecture, Home and the City

76

Ringing Bells and Magic Nights

77

Both Sides Now

78

Strange Days and Seasonal Moods

79

Sun and stardust, Irish words for rain and a gift from Edna O’Brien

80

Writing the Bog, Part 1

81

Back-to-school blues, Thackeray’s Irish tour, and Dev’s favourite transport

82

Exam Jitters and Curtain Raisers

83

Angels, Animals and Daughters of Memory

84

Oasis, Owls and a Wildean Whodunnit

85

Night Owls and Guardian Angels

86

Dreaming in Green and Gold

87

Hurling, Hitch-hiking and a Baby Elephant

88

Live Aid and Limpets

89

A New York State of Mind

90

Ways of Seeing, Notions of Home

91

Travelling West, Travelling East

92

Fathers, a Faith Healer and a Missing Football

93

Sunflowers, Spirit Animals and Ziggy Stardust

94

Glorious Boglands and Glory Days

95

Baltic Adventures and a Colorado Rocky Mountain High

96

Empty Nests, and Dining with the Future Pope

97

Royals and Riverkeepers

98

Seals, Birds and Bees

99

Birthdays and Broken Hearts

100

Bell Chimes and Baby Chicks

101

Wobbly Lambs and Swooping Swallows

102

Bedsit Blues and Poker Nights

103

Dedicated to the One I Love

104

Bittersweet Memories and a Mighty Mouse

105

Riverdance and Ronnie Drew, Saint Patrick and the Pogues

106

Red Books and Yellow Sand

107

Gongs and Goldfinches

108

Emigrant Tears and Encounters with Strangers

109

Second Chances and Stormy Seas

110

Weepy Movies and Meeting Marianne

111

Candlemas, Chaplin and the Curragh

112

Stormy Seas and a Stitch in Time

113

Rainy Days and Range Anxiety

114

Tea Leaves and Theatre Tales

115

Snowy Landscapes and Fresh Beginnings

116

Music, Memories and Miracles

117

Turkeys, traditions and Christmas contemplation

118

Seasonal reflections and unexpected guests

119

Starry Nights and Ghostly Bells

120

Meeting Wham, and a Christmas Angel

121

Gargoyles, Geese and Election Blues

122

Turf, Thatch and Secret Worlds

123

Soft Days, a Swing and a Swedish Song

124

Persimmons and Poppies

125

Jewelled Fruits and a Late, Late Harvest

126

Angelus Bells, Opera Nights and Nosferatu

127

Poetry of the Skies

128

Architecture and the City

129

Autumn Apples in Leitrim

130

Libraries and a Lost Key

131

Live at the Áras: Culture Night

132

Artistic treasures and Romantic Ireland

133

Sweet Treats and Sweet Music

134

A Sea Rescue, and School Leavers Set Sail

135

Urban animals, Frankenstein in Tuscany, and Nell McCafferty at Italia 90

136

Angels, Animals and Daughters of Memory

137

Olympians, Elvis and a Storytelling Queen

138

Olympians, Artists and Innisfree

139

Tribes, Bards and Olympic Dreams

140

Radio Games and Hurling Dreams

141

French culture, Irish sporting history and the physical world

142

Skyscrapers, painting by owl-light and wigs

143

Safe Harbours and a Selkie Song

144

Sunflowers, Spirit Animals and Ziggy Stardust

145

Butterballs, Bullseyes and Bloomsday

146

Celestial Considerations and Serendipity