Sunday Miscellany 3 April 2011

Essays:

That’s No Way to Say Goodbye by Cyril Kelly

Why Did You Leave me Behind by Martina Devlin

National Velvet by Joe Ó Muircheartaigh

A Mother’s Fall by Sheila Maher

And from the Sunday Miscellany archive to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of John McGahern:

Free State - a poem - by Gerard Smyth

Remembering John McGahern by Denis Sampson

Music:

An excerpt from Minuetto con moto – Trio by Luigi Bocherini performed by The Esterházy Quartet

Traümerei from Kinderszenen by Robert Schumann

Cailleach an Airgid performed by Máire Ní Charra and Friends

Echoes of Spring - by Peter O'Brien

Seóirse Brabston by Turlough O'Carolan performed by Derek Bell and Friends