Brendan O'Connor
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15,017 appearances
160 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Brendan O'Connor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 160 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 39.
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it's funny.
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We often think that poets get better as they age, that it's a wise old person's game.
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Yeah.
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But they're a young person in the first flushes of like a burst
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Abundance.
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Beautiful
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now this is also a time of endings and new beginnings and back to school and off to college.
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You let your daughter,
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into a new phase of
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Because in the blink of an eye.
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yeah she hasn't even moved out of
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college but I
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cry
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beautiful
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it yeah okay the next one is by an Irish poet people might not know
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And last but certainly not least, the great Seamus Heaney.
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So a lot of people will know this poem, Postscript.
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Ender Wiley, thank you so much.
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Now, I could have my work cut out for me with my next guest today because he is the guy the Irish rugby team used to send out to Stonewall, the media, when they didn't play well.
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