Sunday Miscellany
Episodes
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 and being an artist and easel painting in Donegal. W...
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, John Toal, Mícheál McCann, Maria McManus, and music...
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, Lucy Caldwell, Glenn Patterson, Emily Byers-Ferrian a...
Butterballs, Bullseyes and Bloomsday
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Reflections on fatherhood, and literary Dublin’s first Joycean jaunt, with Patricia Joyce Oliver, Rory Gleeson, Donal Fallon, Ann Breslin and 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’Connor, Patricia O’Reilly, Catherine Ann Cullen and P...
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, or not, of meeting your heroes. With John Toal, Jo...
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 making a show of yourself, with Pat Boran, Peter Cunni...
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 friendship in Monet’s garden. With Maeve Edwards, Joe Ke...
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-expression-- with Mark Brennock, Doireann Ní Bhr...
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 boy, the smell of new boots and an old coat. With P...
Miracles and Talking Birds
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Saints and prayers, crowning glory and a Shakespearean starling, with Elizabeth Oxley, Moya Cannon, Dermot Bolger, Pat Boran, Rosaleen McDonagh and Co...
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 Nilsson’s Irish love, with Jim Sharkey, Jenny Beal...
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 writer starting out: John Banville, Shelly Furlong, D...
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 Olivia O’Leary, Paul Johnston, Aidan Mathews, Margare...
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 Cousins, Conor Horgan, Jim Sperin, Mary O’Malley a...
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 Kearney, Bernard Dunleavy, John MacKenna, James Harpu...
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 Edwards, Joe Whelan, AM Cousins, Paul Howard, Clare ...
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 lady, with Mike Hanrahan, Lourdes Mackey, John MacKen...
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 from America, and sawing wood in a Siberian gulag, wi...
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 Neil Hegarty, Henrietta McKervey, Leo Cullen, Evely...
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 be stopped. With Kevin McDermott, Margaret Galvin,...
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 Beale, Peter Trant, Barbara Scully, Niall McArdle and ...
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 a flapper skate along the way, with Joe Kearney, ...
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 rereading the searing Diary of Anne Frank, with Eli...
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 soul in the Emergency Department, with Daniel Mulhall...
Winter Travels and Emotional Challenges
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 'big snow', the real Gabriel Conroy, finding profundity in simplicity and tumbles on winter streets, with Alexander McMaster, Enda Wyley, Conall H...
An Angel Feather and a New Year Wish
31 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Absent angels, a post-Christmas brush with the law, and a reckoning with Yeats country, with Grace Wilentz, Michael Harding, John MacKenna, Enda Wyley...