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Architecture and the City

2024-10-1342:50

From Donegal to Dublin, 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

Autumn Apples in Leitrim

2024-10-0629:59

From traces of the Gauls in France to a Kurdish boy’s story of finding refuge in Ireland, voices from Leitrim’s Iron Mountain Festival: Mary Byrne, Adrian Duncan, Alice Lyons, Zak Moradi, Vincent Woods – with brief music extracts from Eleanor Shanley, Garadice, Zoé Basha, Ultan O’Brien

Libraries and a Lost Key

2024-09-2933:28

Paints, pigments and the perfume of old paper. Love objects and the love of books. More from Culture Night at Áras an Uachtaráin, hosted by President Higgins and Sabina Higgins (and other past Miscellany live recordings), with Nell Regan, Aingeala Flannery, Lemn Sissay, Sharon Hogan and Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin

Live at the Áras: Culture Night

2024-09-2234:44

Irish words for rain, ghosts of Kilmainham, a tribute to Edna O’Brien and a sprinkle of stardust - a special live Miscellany at Áras an Uachtaráin. Writers: Manchán Magan, Tim Carey, Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Donal Ryan and President Michael D Higgins.

Artistic treasures and Romantic Ireland

2024-09-1532:12

Glorying in artistic treasures, and dealing with artistic reality, with Caitríona Lally, Julie Feeney, Cristín Leach, Julie Morrissy and John Graham

Sweet Treats and Sweet Music

2024-09-0839:17

Brass bands, boarding school blues, and a blacksmith in his forge in Rathiniska, with Carol Taaffe, Colin Regan, Paul Johnston, Margaret Dunne, Fiona Smith and Antonia Hart

A Sea Rescue, and School Leavers Set Sail

2024-09-0135:35

Coming-of-age tales and the extraordinary story of the Irish merchant ship the MV Kerlogue, and Seamus Heaney on the byroads of County Wexford, with Elizabeth Oxley, Fran O’Rourke, Kevin Mc Dermott, AM Cousins, Jennifer Carey and Rachael Hegarty

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

2024-08-2539:05

Urban animals and comedy in the city, Frankenstein in Tuscany, and minding the great Nell McCafferty at Italia 90, with John Egan, Ann Marie Durkan, Judith Mok, Norma MacMaster, Joe Rooney and Enda Wyley

Angels, Animals and Daughters of Memory

2024-08-1840:45

From the shores of West Kerry to Dublin city’s Georgian squares, to a Traveller man’s campfire – a special programme on Ireland’s treasure trove of shared heritage, marking National Heritage Week, with Eimear Ryan, Theo Dorgan, Colin Regan, Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Oein DeBhardúin and Paula Meehan

Olympians, Elvis and a Storytelling Queen

2024-08-1137:35

Irish experiences of the Olympic Games in Moscow 1980 and Paris 1924, Peig Sayers’s resurgence, and a love story at Lough Derg, with John Kirwan, Nuala Hayes, Amy Redmond, Maura O’Sullivan and John Egan

Olympians, Artists and Innisfree

2024-08-0442:43

A walk in the woods, writing advice from Maeve Binchy and blood in the water at the Melbourne Olympics, with Fergal McCabe, Bernadett Buda, Mike MacDomhnaill, Bernard Farrell, Sharon Hgan and Pat Boran

Tribes, Bards and Olympic Dreams

2024-07-2835:01

Dance moves on the pitch, climbing the Reek, an encounter with screenwriter Robert Towne -- and swimming lessons from Tarzan, with Karl O’Neill, Victoria White, Mae Leonard, Gerry O’Boyle, Felim MacDermott and Orlaith Mannion

Radio Games and Hurling Dreams

2024-07-2134:43

Sliotars, Cork and Clare superstars and the incomparable Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh remembered, with John Cooney, Seamus McKenna, Róisín Bugler, Jim McKeon, Catherine Foley, Gerry O’Beirne and Éamonn Ó Muircheartaigh

French culture, Irish sporting history and the physical world

2024-07-1440:35

Finding inspiration in France, a slice of Ireland's sporting history and the importance of our physical world. With Judith Mok, Cathy Power, Alice Rekab, Andrew Clancy, Cornelius Browne, William Wall and Cyril Kelly

Skyscrapers, painting by owl-light and wigs

2024-07-0737:54

Love and a family wedding, an architect’s New York, navigating Irish-African inheritances, wigs and being an artist and easel painting in Donegal. With Brendan Kennelly, Cathy Power, John Tuomey, Alice Rekab, Julie Feeney and Cornelius Browne.

Safe Harbours and a Selkie Song

2024-06-3029:15

Ways of Seeing 2: More words and music from Belfast Book Festival with Paul McVeigh, Marie Howe, John Toal, Mícheál McCann, Maria McManus, and music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna, Éimear McGeown, Donogh Hennessy and Trú

Sunflowers, Spirit Animals and Ziggy Stardust

2024-06-2331:57

Live from Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre, Ways of Seeing: writers Jan Carson, Lucy Caldwell, Glenn Patterson, Emily Byers-Ferrian and Maria McManus with music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna and Trú

Butterballs, Bullseyes and Bloomsday

2024-06-1633:08

Reflections on fatherhood, and literary Dublin’s first Joycean jaunt, with Patricia Joyce Oliver, Rory Gleeson, Donal Fallon, Ann Breslin and Oliver Sears

Celestial Considerations and Serendipity

2024-06-0233:44

A dip into the Miscellany archive with 1990s pieces by Michael Harding, Nicky Barry, Kevin O’Connor, Patricia O’Reilly, Catherine Ann Cullen and Peter Jankovsky – and a more recent poem from late, much missed poet, Gerald Dawe

Baby Birds and Barefoot Running

2024-05-2635:07

Thin Lizzy in Tramore, Brehon Brutalism in Ballsbridge, feathery feats of nature -- and the wisdom, or not, of meeting your heroes. With John Toal, Joe Rooney, Kathy Donaghy, Shane O’Toole, Lani O’Hanlon and Judith Mok

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