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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · 13d

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

Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · 21d

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! 🎄❄️✨

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Sep 10

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/

President Michael D Higgins reads 'Stardust'

Rita Ann Higgins reads her poems 'Hermit of Glendalough' and 'Edict'

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Aug 21

#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
@rteradio1.bsky.social
RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 24 August 2025. Tune in!

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Aug 9

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!

The Baltic Way from Wikimedia Commons, credit: Kusurija - Own work

Photo of Gallagher brothers from Wikimedia Commons, credit: Will Fresch

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Aug 3

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

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Jul 26

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!

John Toal, aged five, and his father meet Mick O'Dwyer in Waterville, County Kerry

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Jul 20

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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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Jul 12

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!

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Jun 22

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

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Jun 15

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
@rteradio1.bsky.social

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · May 31

6. Going for the Milk, a poem by Catherine Foley.

With music from Luka Bloom, Luke Kelly, Beth Orton, Nick Drake and more...
You can also listen live or later on the RTÉ Radio app #sundaymiscellany

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · May 31

Full line-up:
1. Silver Sparks, by Alexander McMaster;
2. The Trapeze Artists of Burgh Quay, by Denis McClean;
3. Come Here You, by Rachael Hegarty;
4. The Four Healers, by Lani O’Hanlon;
5. A Veteran of the War, by Leo Cullen,
and

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · May 31

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

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · May 25

Rollercoaster of an episode - @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social

Epic poem by Vincent Woods, “A Dance in the Gap of Time”.

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · May 24

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!

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Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social · May 18

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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Bernie McCarthy 🏳️‍🌈 @berniemccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

A seasonal activity that can be harsh, but also strangely therapeutic

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Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social · May 4

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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Potato Gun Kelly @mkay.wtf · May 10

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

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