Sunday Miscellany
@sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
New writing for radio with complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning on RTÉ Radio 1, Irish public radio, since 1968. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany and the RTÉ Radio app
Ghosts, matinee idols + a lost manuscript...
Full ine-up 1 Nov 2025
Not Walking with Kofi: Georg Grote
November Dead List: Louise Kennedy
Trying to Remember: Beth Kilkenny
Dylan Thomas’s Lost Manuscript: Justin MacCarthy
Opera Nights: Roslyn Dee
Then and Now: John F Deane @rteradio1.bsky.social
Full ine-up 1 Nov 2025
Not Walking with Kofi: Georg Grote
November Dead List: Louise Kennedy
Trying to Remember: Beth Kilkenny
Dylan Thomas’s Lost Manuscript: Justin MacCarthy
Opera Nights: Roslyn Dee
Then and Now: John F Deane @rteradio1.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ghosts, matinee idols + a lost manuscript...
Full ine-up 1 Nov 2025
Not Walking with Kofi: Georg Grote
November Dead List: Louise Kennedy
Trying to Remember: Beth Kilkenny
Dylan Thomas’s Lost Manuscript: Justin MacCarthy
Opera Nights: Roslyn Dee
Then and Now: John F Deane @rteradio1.bsky.social
Full ine-up 1 Nov 2025
Not Walking with Kofi: Georg Grote
November Dead List: Louise Kennedy
Trying to Remember: Beth Kilkenny
Dylan Thomas’s Lost Manuscript: Justin MacCarthy
Opera Nights: Roslyn Dee
Then and Now: John F Deane @rteradio1.bsky.social
A selection 19/10/25 @rteradio1.bsky.social Red Line Book Festival + Waterford Writers Weekend: Frankie Gaffney, Eileen Battersby, John Connell, AM Cousins, Rosaleen McDonagh, Catherine Foley, Donal Clancy, Far Flung Trio, The Finns, Cór Fear na nDéise: listen: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
October 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A selection 19/10/25 @rteradio1.bsky.social Red Line Book Festival + Waterford Writers Weekend: Frankie Gaffney, Eileen Battersby, John Connell, AM Cousins, Rosaleen McDonagh, Catherine Foley, Donal Clancy, Far Flung Trio, The Finns, Cór Fear na nDéise: listen: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
How our built environment shapes us: Architecture & the City, marks Open House Dublin '25 (first broadcast 13 October 2024). From 9.10am, Sunday 12 Oct. With Éimear Arthur, Cormac Murray, Emmett Scanlon, Kevin Marinan, Graham Hickey, Julie Cruickshank, @felispeaks.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
How our built environment shapes us: Architecture & the City, marks Open House Dublin '25 (first broadcast 13 October 2024). From 9.10am, Sunday 12 Oct. With Éimear Arthur, Cormac Murray, Emmett Scanlon, Kevin Marinan, Graham Hickey, Julie Cruickshank, @felispeaks.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
Ringing bells, magical nights in Dublin theatres+ Cork's Lobby Bar, + foraging for treasure... #sundaymiscellany is on air now with Dominic Dromgoole Adam Trodd Bernadett Buda Aoife Barry David Grant and Noelle Lynskey #brianfriel #MaeveBinchy #manchanmagan Tune in! @sweetoblivion.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Ringing bells, magical nights in Dublin theatres+ Cork's Lobby Bar, + foraging for treasure... #sundaymiscellany is on air now with Dominic Dromgoole Adam Trodd Bernadett Buda Aoife Barry David Grant and Noelle Lynskey #brianfriel #MaeveBinchy #manchanmagan Tune in! @sweetoblivion.bsky.social
A poetry-infused line-up today... 28/09 @rteradio1.bsky.social
Zero Degrees: Donal Hayes
September Migration: Grace Wells
Free Books: Joe Whelan
The Other House: Mary O’Donnell
Hartnett Back By the Arra: Mike MacDomhnaill
In Between: Beth Kilkenny
The Shipping Lanes: Mary O’Malley i.m. Derek Mahon
Zero Degrees: Donal Hayes
September Migration: Grace Wells
Free Books: Joe Whelan
The Other House: Mary O’Donnell
Hartnett Back By the Arra: Mike MacDomhnaill
In Between: Beth Kilkenny
The Shipping Lanes: Mary O’Malley i.m. Derek Mahon
September 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A poetry-infused line-up today... 28/09 @rteradio1.bsky.social
Zero Degrees: Donal Hayes
September Migration: Grace Wells
Free Books: Joe Whelan
The Other House: Mary O’Donnell
Hartnett Back By the Arra: Mike MacDomhnaill
In Between: Beth Kilkenny
The Shipping Lanes: Mary O’Malley i.m. Derek Mahon
Zero Degrees: Donal Hayes
September Migration: Grace Wells
Free Books: Joe Whelan
The Other House: Mary O’Donnell
Hartnett Back By the Arra: Mike MacDomhnaill
In Between: Beth Kilkenny
The Shipping Lanes: Mary O’Malley i.m. Derek Mahon
Strange days, pangs of youth and a “whistling city”… #sundaymiscellany is coming up with Paul Muldoon Carol Taaffe Conall Hamill Georg Grote Antonia Hart Frank Shouldice, 9am-10am @rteradio1.bsky.social 21 Sep
listen in for details of our Christmas show with @rteco.rte.ie at the NCH Dublin! 🎄❄️✨
listen in for details of our Christmas show with @rteco.rte.ie at the NCH Dublin! 🎄❄️✨
September 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Strange days, pangs of youth and a “whistling city”… #sundaymiscellany is coming up with Paul Muldoon Carol Taaffe Conall Hamill Georg Grote Antonia Hart Frank Shouldice, 9am-10am @rteradio1.bsky.social 21 Sep
listen in for details of our Christmas show with @rteco.rte.ie at the NCH Dublin! 🎄❄️✨
listen in for details of our Christmas show with @rteco.rte.ie at the NCH Dublin! 🎄❄️✨
This Sunday, a re-broadcast of our 2024 Culture Night special from Áras an Uachtaráin-great writing &music. 14 Sept, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social with @manchanmagan.bsky.social @timcarey1.bsky.social Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Donal Ryan, @president.ie www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany/
September 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This Sunday, a re-broadcast of our 2024 Culture Night special from Áras an Uachtaráin-great writing &music. 14 Sept, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social with @manchanmagan.bsky.social @timcarey1.bsky.social Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Donal Ryan, @president.ie www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany/
A special @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social celebrating Irish boglands, in collaboration with Irish Architecture Foundation. With Margaret Hickey, Niamh Donnellan, Karen McHugh, Anthony Baggott, Emmett Scanlon and Claire Cotter. Sept 7, 9.10am @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A special @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social celebrating Irish boglands, in collaboration with Irish Architecture Foundation. With Margaret Hickey, Niamh Donnellan, Karen McHugh, Anthony Baggott, Emmett Scanlon and Claire Cotter. Sept 7, 9.10am @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social
Ireland’s State Coach, bittersweet first day of school, Thackeray’s travels in Ireland, and robbing orchards. @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social is coming up, with Jonathan White, Zoë Devlin, Enda Wyley, Lourdes Mackey, John MacKenna, Grace Wells and Tom Conaty. Aug 31, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Ireland’s State Coach, bittersweet first day of school, Thackeray’s travels in Ireland, and robbing orchards. @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social is coming up, with Jonathan White, Zoë Devlin, Enda Wyley, Lourdes Mackey, John MacKenna, Grace Wells and Tom Conaty. Aug 31, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social
#LeavingCert result jitters, seeing fox cubs by night + the magic of the circus: Denise Blake, Emma Prunty, Kathy Donaghy, Denis Tuohy, John MacKenna... plus a new poem from Paul Muldoon... Sunday Miscellany is coming up 9am
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RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 24 August 2025. Tune in!
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RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 24 August 2025. Tune in!
August 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
#LeavingCert result jitters, seeing fox cubs by night + the magic of the circus: Denise Blake, Emma Prunty, Kathy Donaghy, Denis Tuohy, John MacKenna... plus a new poem from Paul Muldoon... Sunday Miscellany is coming up 9am
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RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 24 August 2025. Tune in!
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RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 24 August 2025. Tune in!
Owls, Oasis and a literary whodunnit, and tremors of history from the atom bomb to the fall of the Soviet Union. #sundaymiscellany is on the way, 9am 10 August 2025 @rteradio1.bsky.social with David Coughlan @maevelucia.bsky.social Joe Taylor Denise Blake Conor Hanratty Mary O'Donnell. Tune in!
August 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Owls, Oasis and a literary whodunnit, and tremors of history from the atom bomb to the fall of the Soviet Union. #sundaymiscellany is on the way, 9am 10 August 2025 @rteradio1.bsky.social with David Coughlan @maevelucia.bsky.social Joe Taylor Denise Blake Conor Hanratty Mary O'Donnell. Tune in!
Guardian angels, night owls +boarding school blues: an archive dip's on now @rteradio1.bsky.social: Michael Harding Eugene McEldowney Vona Groarke Peter Jankowsky Geraldine Mitchell Kieran Fagan + the late, much missed Mary Russell. Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
August 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Guardian angels, night owls +boarding school blues: an archive dip's on now @rteradio1.bsky.social: Michael Harding Eugene McEldowney Vona Groarke Peter Jankowsky Geraldine Mitchell Kieran Fagan + the late, much missed Mary Russell. Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
Dreams of Sam Maguire from Killybegs to Kenmare, Leonard Cohen's magical Lissadell concert + more... #sundaymiscellany 9am @rteradio1.bsky.social 27/07/25 @johnnytoal.bsky.social Regina Devenney John S Doyle Tony Griffin Noel King Denise Blake John Cooney #allirelandfinal #Kerry #Donegal Tune in!
July 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dreams of Sam Maguire from Killybegs to Kenmare, Leonard Cohen's magical Lissadell concert + more... #sundaymiscellany 9am @rteradio1.bsky.social 27/07/25 @johnnytoal.bsky.social Regina Devenney John S Doyle Tony Griffin Noel King Denise Blake John Cooney #allirelandfinal #Kerry #Donegal Tune in!
Adventures in hitchhiking, hurlers’ hopes and dreams, a barefoot wonder and an elephant in Phibsborough Sunday Miscellany 20/07/25 on now! Doireann Ní Bhriain Joe Whelan Cormac Murray Theo Dorgan Lani O'Hanlon John Allen #HurlingFinal #corkvtipp Listen in/back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
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New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968 // Producer: Sarah Binchy; Broadcast Co-ordinator: Elaine Conlan
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July 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Adventures in hitchhiking, hurlers’ hopes and dreams, a barefoot wonder and an elephant in Phibsborough Sunday Miscellany 20/07/25 on now! Doireann Ní Bhriain Joe Whelan Cormac Murray Theo Dorgan Lani O'Hanlon John Allen #HurlingFinal #corkvtipp Listen in/back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, + Live Aid 40 years on. #sundaymiscellany is on the way Michael Hilliard Mulcahy Eunan McKinney Mae Leonard Alexander McMaster Angela Keogh Mariam Tell Vincent Woods @rteradio1.bsky.social
9am 13/07/25 Tune in!
9am 13/07/25 Tune in!
July 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, + Live Aid 40 years on. #sundaymiscellany is on the way Michael Hilliard Mulcahy Eunan McKinney Mae Leonard Alexander McMaster Angela Keogh Mariam Tell Vincent Woods @rteradio1.bsky.social
9am 13/07/25 Tune in!
9am 13/07/25 Tune in!
From Glastonbury to Monet’s garden, from a bed for the night for the Championship in Clare to a St John's Eve bonfire. Sunday Miscellany is on now Conall Hamill Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha Joe Rooney @johnnytoal.bsky.social @maevelucia.bsky.social Antonia Gunko Karelina @rteradio1.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
From Glastonbury to Monet’s garden, from a bed for the night for the Championship in Clare to a St John's Eve bonfire. Sunday Miscellany is on now Conall Hamill Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha Joe Rooney @johnnytoal.bsky.social @maevelucia.bsky.social Antonia Gunko Karelina @rteradio1.bsky.social
Footballs and faith healers, a nightwalk through Sydney, and a visit to Joyce’s Nighttown... Sunday Miscellany is on air now with Colin Regan Kieran Fitzgerald Grace Wells Fran O'Rourke Katrina Bruna and Christian O'Reilly. #Bloomsday #FathersDay Tune in! #sundaymiscellany
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June 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Footballs and faith healers, a nightwalk through Sydney, and a visit to Joyce’s Nighttown... Sunday Miscellany is on air now with Colin Regan Kieran Fitzgerald Grace Wells Fran O'Rourke Katrina Bruna and Christian O'Reilly. #Bloomsday #FathersDay Tune in! #sundaymiscellany
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On this morning's #sundaymiscellany 8 June 2025 Ways of Seeing: live at Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social Glenn Patterson Emily Byers-Ferrian Maria McManus Trú
Scott Flanigan Sinéad McKenna @rteradio1.bsky.social
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social Glenn Patterson Emily Byers-Ferrian Maria McManus Trú
Scott Flanigan Sinéad McKenna @rteradio1.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
On this morning's #sundaymiscellany 8 June 2025 Ways of Seeing: live at Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social Glenn Patterson Emily Byers-Ferrian Maria McManus Trú
Scott Flanigan Sinéad McKenna @rteradio1.bsky.social
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social Glenn Patterson Emily Byers-Ferrian Maria McManus Trú
Scott Flanigan Sinéad McKenna @rteradio1.bsky.social
Exam jitters, the glorious bog lands of Donegal, and the glory days of the Irish Press newspaper remembered. Sunday Miscellany is coming up Sunday 1 June 9.10am Tune in! @rteradio1.bsky.social
Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
May 31, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Exam jitters, the glorious bog lands of Donegal, and the glory days of the Irish Press newspaper remembered. Sunday Miscellany is coming up Sunday 1 June 9.10am Tune in! @rteradio1.bsky.social
Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
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Rollercoaster of an episode - @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
Epic poem by Vincent Woods, “A Dance in the Gap of Time”.
Epic poem by Vincent Woods, “A Dance in the Gap of Time”.
May 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Rollercoaster of an episode - @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
Epic poem by Vincent Woods, “A Dance in the Gap of Time”.
Epic poem by Vincent Woods, “A Dance in the Gap of Time”.
Campervan travels on the Baltic coast +a change in the weather, bread of heaven and a Colorado Rocky Mountain high… Sunday Miscellany is on the way 9.10am Sunday 25 May @rteradio1.bsky.social with Alexander McMaster
@maevelucia.bsky.social Michael Hamell Elizabeth Oxley Vincent Woods. Tune in!
@maevelucia.bsky.social Michael Hamell Elizabeth Oxley Vincent Woods. Tune in!
May 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Campervan travels on the Baltic coast +a change in the weather, bread of heaven and a Colorado Rocky Mountain high… Sunday Miscellany is on the way 9.10am Sunday 25 May @rteradio1.bsky.social with Alexander McMaster
@maevelucia.bsky.social Michael Hamell Elizabeth Oxley Vincent Woods. Tune in!
@maevelucia.bsky.social Michael Hamell Elizabeth Oxley Vincent Woods. Tune in!
Dinner with the (future) Pope, baby birds and empty nests, a tribute to a beloved brother and a kind of homecoming. #sundaymiscellany is on air now @rteradio1.bsky.social with Gráinne Quinlan William Wall Fabian McGrath Joan Shiels Eileen Heron Hugo Hamilton. Tune in! #eurovision @rte.ie
May 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Dinner with the (future) Pope, baby birds and empty nests, a tribute to a beloved brother and a kind of homecoming. #sundaymiscellany is on air now @rteradio1.bsky.social with Gráinne Quinlan William Wall Fabian McGrath Joan Shiels Eileen Heron Hugo Hamilton. Tune in! #eurovision @rte.ie
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A joy to see them
Sunday Miscellany celebrates the joys of lambing season www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Sunday Miscellany celebrates the joys of lambing season www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Sunday Miscellany celebrates the joys of lambing season
A seasonal activity that can be harsh, but also strangely therapeutic
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April 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A joy to see them
Sunday Miscellany celebrates the joys of lambing season www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Sunday Miscellany celebrates the joys of lambing season www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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Do yourself a favour and have a listen to this from Sunday Miscellany @rteone.rte.ie: Transporting bees in Dublin www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Transporting Bees in Dublin, by Kevin Connolly
Wrecking a beekeeper’s buzz in rush-hour traffic
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May 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Do yourself a favour and have a listen to this from Sunday Miscellany @rteone.rte.ie: Transporting bees in Dublin www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Always recommend RTE’s Sunday Miscellany for this. Lovely, small, personal, charming stories. 100 or so episodes in the archives. Look forward to the new one all week
May 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Always recommend RTE’s Sunday Miscellany for this. Lovely, small, personal, charming stories. 100 or so episodes in the archives. Look forward to the new one all week