War Stories and Winter Light
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John and Yoko in County Mayo, Con Houlihan at 100 and a sniff of Christmas, with Donal Fallon, Louis...
Bicycles and Belfast Boys
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
George Best and Harry Gregg’s footballing friendship, a long-forgotten fire in the Liberties and a...
Grief and History: Voices from Bloody Sunday, 2020
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A special programme marking the anniversary of one of the worst days of violence of the War of Indep...
Old Friends and New Beginnings
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ravens, crows and the last Irish wolf, diplomatic journeys and a poetry journal’s elegant farewell...
Starry Skies and Student Rites-of-Passage
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The art of persuasion, the pity of war and the sanctuary of home, with tributes to the late, great C...
Ghosts, Goldcrests and a Lost Manuscript
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A prayer for Rudolf Valentino, fleeting memories and a snowy night of opera in St Petersburg, with G...
A Last Briquette and a Magic Mountain
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Silver sparks, a bog for a pillow and the ‘deserts of the midlands’… A ‘Writing the Bog’ s...
A Stolen Tulip and a Hare’s Eyes
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Creative discoveries from reading to singing to dancing to painting - a live selection from Waterfor...
Architecture, Home and the City
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do the places we build shape our lives? A programme marking Open House Dublin Festival of Archit...
Ringing Bells and Magic Nights
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saluting some treasures of our culture, language and landscape; remembering Brian Friel on his tenth...
Both Sides Now
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Homecomings and departures, a friend for all seasons and tributes to Derek Mahon, Michael Hartnett a...
Strange Days and Seasonal Moods
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
September rituals and youthful rites of passage, with Paul Muldoon, Carol Taaffe, Conall Hamill, Geo...
Sun and stardust, Irish words for rain and a gift from Edna O’Brien
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A re-broadcast of a special Culture Night Miscellany, hosted by President Higgins and Sabina Higgins...
Writing the Bog, Part 1
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stories of the Irish boglands, past, present and imagined future, in collaboration with the Irish Ar...
Back-to-school blues, Thackeray’s Irish tour, and Dev’s favourite transport
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ireland’s State Coach, the bittersweet first day of school, Thackeray’s travels in Ireland and y...
Exam Jitters and Curtain Raisers
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leaving result anxiety, fox cubs by moonlight and meeting Mícheál MacLiammóir -- and a new poem f...
Angels, Animals and Daughters of Memory
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the shores of West Kerry to Dublin city’s Georgian squares, to a Traveller man’s campfire –...
Oasis, Owls and a Wildean Whodunnit
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marmalade sandwiches and illicit pints of Guinness, and the human tremors and reverberations of hist...
Night Owls and Guardian Angels
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fairytales and boarding school blues, travelling light and a treasured sewing machine: a Miscellany ...
Dreaming in Green and Gold
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All-Ireland football hopes from Kenmare to Killybegs, Leonard Cohen’s magical Lissadell concert, a...
Hurling, Hitch-hiking and a Baby Elephant
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thumbing a lift, taming a feral cat, the story behind how Babs Keating became Tipperary’s “baref...
Live Aid and Limpets
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, and saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, with Michael ...
A New York State of Mind
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coat checks and cityscapes in New York City; preparing for a family wedding; and reflections on wear...
Ways of Seeing, Notions of Home
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How we see ourselves, and others, and what constitutes home; a selection from the Belfast Books Fest...
Travelling West, Travelling East
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The mud of Glastonbury and the elegance of the Monet garden, a St John’s Eve bonfire and the brave...
Fathers, a Faith Healer and a Missing Football
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Solstice meditations, a Sydney nightwalk and a visit to Joyce’s Nighttown, with Colin Regan, Kiera...
Sunflowers, Spirit Animals and Ziggy Stardust
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Live from the Belfast Book Festival 2024, at the Crescent Arts Centre, with Ways of Seeing. Writers:...
Glorious Boglands and Glory Days
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Exam jitters and poetry grinds for teenagers, the heyday of the Irish Press newspaper, and silage-ma...
Baltic Adventures and a Colorado Rocky Mountain High
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Campervan travels with an intrepid German grandmother, a loaf of heavenly batch bread, and the Heyse...
Empty Nests, and Dining with the Future Pope
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leaving home and a kind of homecoming; Eurovision memories and a tribute to a beloved brother, with ...
Royals and Riverkeepers
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Post-war wanderings and pilgrimages of the heart, a Rembrandt double-portrait and a poem for Béalta...
Seals, Birds and Bees
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Encounters with wildlife, labour struggles in Italy and remarkable island architecture, with Michael...
Birthdays and Broken Hearts
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Shakespeare’s seven ages of man, Jane Austen’s sense and sensibility, pilgrimages of the heart -...
Bell Chimes and Baby Chicks
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Easter miracles and a newly risen Notre-Dame; natty hats and singing in public, with Fachtna Ó Dris...
Wobbly Lambs and Swooping Swallows
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stirrings of spring and a stubborn donkey, Easter in Beirut and meeting Samuel Beckett, with Kate O’...
Bedsit Blues and Poker Nights
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dentists’ drills, dry stone walls and debtors’ prison, and the Great Gatsby at 100, with Tim Car...
Dedicated to the One I Love
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Handwritten letters and mother-daughter rites of passage, a search for identity, and the delightful ...
Bittersweet Memories and a Mighty Mouse
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Car troubles, revolutionary whispers and a tribute to a hero of Dublin city, with John Toal, Catheri...
Riverdance and Ronnie Drew, Saint Patrick and the Pogues
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saint Patrick’s hidden holy well, a White House welcome, an encounter with musical genius and a “...
Red Books and Yellow Sand
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Canine clutter and a feline warrior, a friendship forged in music and a century-old literary scandal...
Gongs and Goldfinches
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Oscar night fever and Jaws at 50, placenames of Waterford and saluting Ronnie Delany at 90, with Joh...
Emigrant Tears and Encounters with Strangers
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ghost signs of Dublin, Wexford tales, and climbing Carrauntuohil, with Jamie O’Connell, Margaret G...
Second Chances and Stormy Seas
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ministering angels and mutiny at sea, a devastating fire in a Dublin market, and a poem for the late...
Weepy Movies and Meeting Marianne
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bittersweet love stories, eye-catching cover art and home thoughts from abroad, with Feargal Ó Dubh...
Candlemas, Chaplin and the Curragh
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Slip-sliding resolutions, sleepy sheep and saluting the darkness even as winter turns to spring, wit...
Stormy Seas and a Stitch in Time
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sailing to Antarctica, a few sticks of furniture and the life of O’Reilly in Australia, with Hugh ...
Rainy Days and Range Anxiety
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Cherbourg to Belmullet to Western Vancouver: friendship, poetry and voyages of the heart, with ...
Tea Leaves and Theatre Tales
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Silk Road meditations, dreamy prophecies and the hard winter of 1947, with Emer O’Kelly, Eileen Ca...
Snowy Landscapes and Fresh Beginnings
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Diplomatic travels and inner journeys, from Leitrim to Lourdes, from Ontario to Togo and Nauru – m...
Music, Memories and Miracles
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A friendly spy, Joyce’s favourite music, and remembering the Dead at Christmastime… with archive...
Turkeys, traditions and Christmas contemplation
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas food, seasonal gifting and contemplation and a Dublin legend, with John Toal, Donal Fallon...
Seasonal reflections and unexpected guests
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reflections on the Christmas season and an unexpected house guest, a miniature Miscellany for Christ...
Starry Nights and Ghostly Bells
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Puccini in Rome, Star Wars fever and a child’s Christmas wonder: part 1 of Christmas Miscellany wi...
Meeting Wham, and a Christmas Angel
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stories of the revolution and the Irish revival, and heroes and heroines of every hue, with Declan K...
Gargoyles, Geese and Election Blues
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saluting Notre-Dame on its grand reopening, wild geese on the wing, rediscovering a love of Latin an...
Turf, Thatch and Secret Worlds
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guy Mitchell in Finglas, a century old bank raid, and other tales from the 80s and 90s programme arc...
Soft Days, a Swing and a Swedish Song
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Irishwomen abroad, wearing vintage and bridging the eternal generation gap – with Peter Cunningham...
Persimmons and Poppies
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A brush with the law in the London of 'Minder', late flowering and vanishing Dublin, with Derek Maho...
Jewelled Fruits and a Late, Late Harvest
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Apples, blackberries, and bravery in Nazi-occupied Budapest, with Amanda Bell, John MacKenna, John T...
Angelus Bells, Opera Nights and Nosferatu
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Angelus bells, Wexford opera nights and a glimpse of Nosferatu, with Joe Kearney, Joe Brennan, AM Co...
Poetry of the Skies
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cosmic wonders and maths miracles; book tokens, baby names and a much loved poet’s birthday tribut...
Architecture and the City
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Donegal to Dublin, how do the places we build shape our lives? A programme marking Open House D...
Autumn Apples in Leitrim
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From traces of the Gauls in France to a Kurdish boy’s story of finding refuge in Ireland, voices f...
Libraries and a Lost Key
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paints, pigments and the perfume of old paper. Love objects and the love of books. More from Culture...
Live at the Áras: Culture Night
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Irish words for rain, ghosts of Kilmainham, a tribute to Edna O’Brien and a sprinkle of stardust -...
Artistic treasures and Romantic Ireland
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Glorying in artistic treasures, and dealing with artistic reality, with Caitríona Lally, Julie Feen...
Sweet Treats and Sweet Music
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Brass bands, boarding school blues, and a blacksmith in his forge in Rathiniska, with Carol Taaffe, ...
A Sea Rescue, and School Leavers Set Sail
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Coming-of-age tales and the extraordinary story of the Irish merchant ship the MV Kerlogue, and Seam...
Urban animals, Frankenstein in Tuscany, and Nell McCafferty at Italia 90
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Urban animals and comedy in the city, Frankenstein in Tuscany, and minding the great Nell McCafferty...
Angels, Animals and Daughters of Memory
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the shores of West Kerry to Dublin city’s Georgian squares, to a Traveller man’s campfire –...
Olympians, Elvis and a Storytelling Queen
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Irish experiences of the Olympic Games in Moscow 1980 and Paris 1924, Peig Sayers’s resurgence, an...
Olympians, Artists and Innisfree
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A walk in the woods, writing advice from Maeve Binchy and blood in the water at the Melbourne Olympi...
Tribes, Bards and Olympic Dreams
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dance moves on the pitch, climbing the Reek, an encounter with screenwriter Robert Towne -- and swim...
Radio Games and Hurling Dreams
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sliotars, Cork and Clare superstars and the incomparable Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh remembered, wit...
French culture, Irish sporting history and the physical world
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Finding inspiration in France, a slice of Ireland's sporting history and the importance of our physi...
Skyscrapers, painting by owl-light and wigs
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Love and a family wedding, an architect’s New York, navigating Irish-African inheritances, wigs an...
Safe Harbours and a Selkie Song
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ways of Seeing 2: More words and music from Belfast Book Festival with Paul McVeigh, Marie Howe, Joh...
Sunflowers, Spirit Animals and Ziggy Stardust
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Live from Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre, Ways of Seeing: writers Jan Carson, Luc...
Butterballs, Bullseyes and Bloomsday
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reflections on fatherhood, and literary Dublin’s first Joycean jaunt, with Patricia Joyce Oliver, ...
Celestial Considerations and Serendipity
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A dip into the Miscellany archive with 1990s pieces by Michael Harding, Nicky Barry, Kevin O’Conno...
Baby Birds and Barefoot Running
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thin Lizzy in Tramore, Brehon Brutalism in Ballsbridge, feathery feats of nature -- and the wisdom, ...
Spring blooms and a batch loaf
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sea pinks on the Copper Coast, intimations of mortality in the Irish hawthorn tree, and ways of maki...
Chieftains and Cherry Blossoms
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cows and cowboy boots, a rookie promoter’s first gig in Galway, and glory days of fun and friendsh...
From La Scala in Milan to Bruce Springsteen in Dublin
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Milan to Dublin, a programme on song and speech, finding and using your voice, dancing and self...
A Sculptor’s Sculptor and a Swallow on the Suir
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Month’s mind tributes to the late sculptor Imogen Stuart and poet Michael Coady; bonny labouring b...
Miracles and Talking Birds
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saints and prayers, crowning glory and a Shakespearean starling, with Elizabeth Oxley, Moya Cannon, ...
Moscow, Mustard and Sand Martins
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Returning swallows, an Irishman abroad in the USSR, a German eye on Daniel O’Connell, and Harry Ni...
Bright visions and moments of joy
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A favourite song of Seán Ó Riada’s, wonderful parties, and extraordinary kindness to a young wri...
Bell chimes and Bach’s St Matthew Passion
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Easter eggs, Easter bonnets and the enduring appeal of Bach’s 300 year old masterpiece, with Olivi...
Starry Nights and Stardust
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rescue pets and reliquaries, asteroids and a crown of thorns, with Gail Seekamp, Fiona Hyland, AM Co...
A Saint, a Goat and a Rocky Place
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shades of green in a St Patrick’s Day Miscellany with Seán O’Gorman, Máire T Robinson, Joe Kea...
Sing-songs, heavenly aspirations and life's paraphernalia - a Mother’s Day Special
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Women sewing, singing, loving and maybe even dancing in heaven. A Mother's Day special with Maeve Ed...
A lamp, a love charm and a library ghost
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Voices in harmony at Creative Brain Week and the New Yorker magazine’s own, Irish, long-winded lad...
Fire, Ice and Paper
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Confessions of a cocktail piano teen sensation, Father Damo goes to Ted Fest, a letter to Letter fro...
Maths, Machines and Alphabet Magic
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clowns, candymen and a pocket calculator: a poem celebrating human ingenuity and playfulness, with N...
Forbidden love, correct attire, and ancient landscapes
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Arboreal hieroglyphics, respectable attire, Gershwin’s Irish influence and a love that couldn’t ...
Brigid, Bolivia and Biting Creatures
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nervous patients, home from home and the saint among the box hedges, with Rebecca Hunter, Jenny Beal...
Feathers, Flappers and a Full Moon
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From Old Moore’s Almanac to the jellyfish apocalypse with birdwatching on the Dodder and capturing...
Burns, Borderlands and a New Baby
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stepping out to dance class, serenading a new arrival, skulduggery in a Scottish graveyard – and r...
Pilgrim Souls, Old Souls
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paintings and poetry, mending and making do, reciting Yeats in New Delhi and a long night of the sou...