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!
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
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
Post-war wanderings, a pair of Rembrandt portraits, and pilgrimages of the heart: Sunday Miscellany is on now
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Tune in! Denis Tuohy Clare O'Dea
@barbleahy.bsky.social Kerry Neville Alan Cook Lani O'Hanlon
Listen in/listen back at rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
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Tune in! Denis Tuohy Clare O'Dea
@barbleahy.bsky.social Kerry Neville Alan Cook Lani O'Hanlon
Listen in/listen back at rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
May 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Post-war wanderings, a pair of Rembrandt portraits, and pilgrimages of the heart: Sunday Miscellany is on now
@rteradio1.bsky.social
Tune in! Denis Tuohy Clare O'Dea
@barbleahy.bsky.social Kerry Neville Alan Cook Lani O'Hanlon
Listen in/listen back at rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
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Tune in! Denis Tuohy Clare O'Dea
@barbleahy.bsky.social Kerry Neville Alan Cook Lani O'Hanlon
Listen in/listen back at rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany
Songs of resistance, swimming with seals and a birdman at the bottom of the garden. Sunday Miscellany is on the way 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social Sun 4 May Tune in!
Full line-up:
1. The Seal Whisperer: Michael Cullen;
2: The Rice Workers of Vercelli: William Wall...
Full line-up:
1. The Seal Whisperer: Michael Cullen;
2: The Rice Workers of Vercelli: William Wall...
May 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Songs of resistance, swimming with seals and a birdman at the bottom of the garden. Sunday Miscellany is on the way 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social Sun 4 May Tune in!
Full line-up:
1. The Seal Whisperer: Michael Cullen;
2: The Rice Workers of Vercelli: William Wall...
Full line-up:
1. The Seal Whisperer: Michael Cullen;
2: The Rice Workers of Vercelli: William Wall...
Shakespeare’s seven ages, Jane Austen at 250, Cretan Resistance fighters in WW2 + a last Lourdes pilgrimate. Sunday MIscellany is coimng up @danmulhall.bsky.social Roslyn Dee John Toal John McKenna AM Cousins and the late, much missed Eileen Battersby.
Tune in: @rteradio1.bsky.social 9.10am 27 April
Tune in: @rteradio1.bsky.social 9.10am 27 April
April 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Shakespeare’s seven ages, Jane Austen at 250, Cretan Resistance fighters in WW2 + a last Lourdes pilgrimate. Sunday MIscellany is coimng up @danmulhall.bsky.social Roslyn Dee John Toal John McKenna AM Cousins and the late, much missed Eileen Battersby.
Tune in: @rteradio1.bsky.social 9.10am 27 April
Tune in: @rteradio1.bsky.social 9.10am 27 April
Easter miracles, bell chimes and baby chicks -- and taking the plunge to sing in public. #sundaymiscellany is on the way @fachtna.bsky.social Aidan Mathews Roslyn Dee Olivia O’Leary Maria Moynihan James Harpur Listen in/listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1... Coming up 9.10am!
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@rteradio1.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Easter miracles, bell chimes and baby chicks -- and taking the plunge to sing in public. #sundaymiscellany is on the way @fachtna.bsky.social Aidan Mathews Roslyn Dee Olivia O’Leary Maria Moynihan James Harpur Listen in/listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1... Coming up 9.10am!
@rteradio1.bsky.social
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Swooping swallows, stubborn donkeys and the therapy of lambing season; Meskel in Lebanon and a starstruck fan meets Sam Beckett. Sunday Miscellany, 9.10am
@rteradio1.bsky.social 13 April 2025 Tune in! Kate O’Shaughnessy Louise Kennedy Peter Cunningham Joe Kearney Jenny Beale John F Deane @rte.ie
@rteradio1.bsky.social 13 April 2025 Tune in! Kate O’Shaughnessy Louise Kennedy Peter Cunningham Joe Kearney Jenny Beale John F Deane @rte.ie
April 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Swooping swallows, stubborn donkeys and the therapy of lambing season; Meskel in Lebanon and a starstruck fan meets Sam Beckett. Sunday Miscellany, 9.10am
@rteradio1.bsky.social 13 April 2025 Tune in! Kate O’Shaughnessy Louise Kennedy Peter Cunningham Joe Kearney Jenny Beale John F Deane @rte.ie
@rteradio1.bsky.social 13 April 2025 Tune in! Kate O’Shaughnessy Louise Kennedy Peter Cunningham Joe Kearney Jenny Beale John F Deane @rte.ie