On darkness and light at the hinge of winter into spring... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to At Candlemas, by Neil Hegarty above.
This week, these last few days of January slipping into February, I've been putting away the candles and candle-holders. Most of them: I’ve kept a few out.
We’ve lit a lot of candles this winter, their flames glowing inside heavy glass tea-light holders, blue and yellow, shining white in proper candlesticks, refracted and broken into gleaming shards from within the cut-glass candleholder my mother gave me...
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
