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 HoganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 CollinsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 HegartySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 DeaneSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 McMasterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 moreSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 FoundationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 LynskeySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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’MalleySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
September rituals and youthful rites of passage, with Paul Muldoon, Carol Taaffe, Conall Hamill, Georg Grote, Antonia Hart and Frank ShouldiceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 HigginsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 CotterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 ConatySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 MuldoonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 DeBharduin and Paula MeehanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Marmalade sandwiches and illicit pints of Guinness, and the human tremors and reverberations of history from the Baltic Way to the atrocity of the atom bomb. With David Coughlan, Maeve Edwards, Joe Taylor, Denise Blake, Conor Hanratty and Mary O’DonnellSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Fairytales and boarding school blues, travelling light and a treasured sewing machine: a Miscellany archive dip with Michael Harding, Eugene McEldowney, Vona Groarke, the late Peter Jankowsky, Geraldine Mitchell, Kieran Fagan and the late Mary Russell, who died recentlySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
All-Ireland football hopes from Kenmare to Killybegs, Leonard Cohen’s magical Lissadell concert, and more, with John Toal, Regina Devenney, John S Doyle, Tony Griffin, Noel King, Denise Blake and John CooneySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Thumbing a lift, taming a feral cat, the story behind how Babs Keating became Tipperary’s “barefoot wonder” and a father’s love for Cork’s Na Piarsaigh, with Doireann Ní Bhriain, Joe Whelan, Cormac Murray, Theo Dorgan, Lani O’Hanlon and John AllenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, and saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, with Michael Hilliard Mulcahy, Eunan McKinney, Mae Leonard, Alexander McMaster, Angela Keogh, Mariam Tell and Vincent WoodsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.