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
If you missed any of the childhood-themed pieces this weekend, you can catch up at any time on www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Writers included Liz Nugent, Michael Harding, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Sam McAughtry, Catherine Ann Cullen, Val Mulkerns and Peter Jankowsky
Writers included Liz Nugent, Michael Harding, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Sam McAughtry, Catherine Ann Cullen, Val Mulkerns and Peter Jankowsky
February 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
If you missed any of the childhood-themed pieces this weekend, you can catch up at any time on www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Writers included Liz Nugent, Michael Harding, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Sam McAughtry, Catherine Ann Cullen, Val Mulkerns and Peter Jankowsky
Writers included Liz Nugent, Michael Harding, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Sam McAughtry, Catherine Ann Cullen, Val Mulkerns and Peter Jankowsky
Magical woodlands, stone sanctuaries & divine intervention, all marking Brigid's Day via childhood memories. With Val Mulkerns, Sam McAughtry, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Peter Jankowsky, Catherine Ann Cullen, @liznugent.bsky.social and Michael Harding. Tune in Feb 1st, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Magical woodlands, stone sanctuaries & divine intervention, all marking Brigid's Day via childhood memories. With Val Mulkerns, Sam McAughtry, Vona Groarke, Nuala Hayes, Peter Jankowsky, Catherine Ann Cullen, @liznugent.bsky.social and Michael Harding. Tune in Feb 1st, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social
The many forms of work - doing it yourself or watching others - was the theme this week (a special Miscellany50: The Archives series). Listen back any time at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... With contributions from John Ryan, Angela O'Rourke, Lar Redmond, Benedict Kiely, James Plunkett and Sharon Hogan
January 26, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The many forms of work - doing it yourself or watching others - was the theme this week (a special Miscellany50: The Archives series). Listen back any time at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... With contributions from John Ryan, Angela O'Rourke, Lar Redmond, Benedict Kiely, James Plunkett and Sharon Hogan
Work in its many forms is the theme this Sunday 25 January, dipping into Miscellany50: The Archives. Moving from the domestic, to the cerebral, to sheer hard graft, writers include John Ryan, Angela O’Rourke, Lar Redmond, Benedict Kiely, James Plunkett and Sharon Hogan @rteradio1.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Work in its many forms is the theme this Sunday 25 January, dipping into Miscellany50: The Archives. Moving from the domestic, to the cerebral, to sheer hard graft, writers include John Ryan, Angela O’Rourke, Lar Redmond, Benedict Kiely, James Plunkett and Sharon Hogan @rteradio1.bsky.social
There were some lovely pieces on the theme of 'ritual' this weekend. Listen back on www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... - all from a special series Miscellany50: The Archives. Voices included Hilda Murphy, Nuala O’Faoláin, Eamon Keane, Margaret Hawkins, Paul O’Dwyer, Sinéad McCoole and Tadhg Ó Dubhláine
January 19, 2026 at 1:20 PM
There were some lovely pieces on the theme of 'ritual' this weekend. Listen back on www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... - all from a special series Miscellany50: The Archives. Voices included Hilda Murphy, Nuala O’Faoláin, Eamon Keane, Margaret Hawkins, Paul O’Dwyer, Sinéad McCoole and Tadhg Ó Dubhláine
This week, a dip into Miscellany50:The Archives (a series celebrating the writing featured in our first 50 years). This theme was ‘ritual’ and featured writings from Hilda Murphy, Nuala O'Faolain, Eamon Keane, Margaret Hawkins, Paul Dwyer, Sinéad McCoole and Tadhg Ó Dubhláine @rteradio1.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 1:06 PM
This week, a dip into Miscellany50:The Archives (a series celebrating the writing featured in our first 50 years). This theme was ‘ritual’ and featured writings from Hilda Murphy, Nuala O'Faolain, Eamon Keane, Margaret Hawkins, Paul Dwyer, Sinéad McCoole and Tadhg Ó Dubhláine @rteradio1.bsky.social
If you missed any of today's programme, listen back any time at rte.ie/radio/radio1... Lovely reflections on 100 years of Irish public service broadcasting from Felicity Hayes, the late JM Dolan, Gerry Stembridge, Margaret Galvin, John Toal and Olivia O'Leary @rteradio1.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 1:54 PM
If you missed any of today's programme, listen back any time at rte.ie/radio/radio1... Lovely reflections on 100 years of Irish public service broadcasting from Felicity Hayes, the late JM Dolan, Gerry Stembridge, Margaret Galvin, John Toal and Olivia O'Leary @rteradio1.bsky.social
If you missed any of our seasonal programmes, listen back any time at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Some amazing performances at our Christmas concert (in 2 parts, Sun 21 and Thurs 25 December), highlights from previous Christmas's on Sun 28 and welcome to a new year on Jan 4 @rteradio1.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM
If you missed any of our seasonal programmes, listen back any time at www.rte.ie/radio/radio1... Some amazing performances at our Christmas concert (in 2 parts, Sun 21 and Thurs 25 December), highlights from previous Christmas's on Sun 28 and welcome to a new year on Jan 4 @rteradio1.bsky.social
Special Christmas Day Miscellany - Palestrina in Rome, Santa suits, kindness from Ireland to Lagos. Music from @rteco.rte.ie + guests, with writers Eithne Shortall, Joseph O’Connor, John Toal, Quentin Fottrell, Rachael Hegarty and Chikere Ohoka. Tune in, 9.10am, Thurs 25 Dec @rteradio1.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Special Christmas Day Miscellany - Palestrina in Rome, Santa suits, kindness from Ireland to Lagos. Music from @rteco.rte.ie + guests, with writers Eithne Shortall, Joseph O’Connor, John Toal, Quentin Fottrell, Rachael Hegarty and Chikere Ohoka. Tune in, 9.10am, Thurs 25 Dec @rteradio1.bsky.social
Songs, seafarers and a guiding star, the story of a smash-hit Irish hymn writer and a meeting with Wham! #sundaymiscellany coming up now... Victoria White, Seán O'Gorman, Lisa McInerney, Jim Maguire, the late Judith Mok, Denise Blake and James Harpur. Tune in!
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December 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Songs, seafarers and a guiding star, the story of a smash-hit Irish hymn writer and a meeting with Wham! #sundaymiscellany coming up now... Victoria White, Seán O'Gorman, Lisa McInerney, Jim Maguire, the late Judith Mok, Denise Blake and James Harpur. Tune in!
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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
Sunday Miscellany - RTÉ Radio 1
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!