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Sunday mornings mean Sunday Miscellany. Its brand new radio essays and occasional poetry followed by complementary music capture our times, passions and curiosities. The contributor led content is selected from open submission and commissioned writing presented by new voices and established names. Reportage, appreciations, memory pieces, poetry, travel writing and personal accounts of events and happenings are all the stuff of Sunday Miscellany. The programme has been part of Sunday mornings on RTÉ Radio since 1968. It is essential listening to thousands across Ireland and the world.

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This collection edited by the programme's producer Clíodhna Ní Anluain and published by New Island includes many of the popular pieces from the radio broadcasts of these years. Covering all sorts of subjects and styles, it makes its way through the calender year following the seasons starting out with new beginnings and ending as the year grows to a close. Contributions relate to memories and observations, to heros past and present from the late Mick Lally, Ciaran Mac Mathúna and Keith Floyd to Kilkenny hurlers; from summer swimming to to sensing ghosts in November; from domestic living in the 1970s to writing on popular songs and music. Pieces include many of those first heard at Sunday Miscellany events recorded around the country from Ballyshannon, Kilkenny and Omagh to Listowel and The Pearse Museum in Dublin as well as the many studio recordings made during the same time. Contributors include Val Mulkerns, Cyril Kelly, Claire Kilroy, Mary Morrissy, Kevin McAleer, Conor O'Callaghan, Colbert Kearney, Peter Sirr, John Banville, Christine Dwyer Hickey, John O'Donnell, Vona Groarke, Evelyn Conlon, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, and John MacKenna - The publisher is New Island and the RRP is €17.99

Duration: 43.55

Content:
Michael O’Hanrahan by Colbert Kearney

Singing Lessons by Kevin O’Sullivan

Egg Woman – a poem by John F Deane

The Coal Quay by Colette Sheridan

Oliver Goldsmith by Dympna Murray Fennell

Terence McSwiney by - Leo Cullen: broadcast to mark the death of his only daughter – Maura McSwiney - who died this week.

Music:

Irish Volunteers’ Theme from the original score of the film Mise Éire composed by Seán Ó Riada performed by the Radió Éireann Symphony Orchestra

Santa Lucia sung by Luciano Pavarotti

Somewhere Nearby by Nils Frahm and performed on piano by the composer

Largo from String Quartet No 4 by Luigi Boccherini performed by the Esterhazy Quartet

The Coal Quay Market / Jackie Daly’s Slide performed by Jimmy Crowley and Stoker’s Lodge

This programme is available on the web and the full programme can be enjoyed on the RTÉ Radio Player. The spoken contributions can be downloaded as a podcast.

Sunday Miscellany is produced by Cliodhna Ni Anluain and the broadcasting co-ordinators are Fionnuala Hayes and Laura-Leigh Davies.

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