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Sunday Miscellany: The Sea That Defies Time by William Wall

Sunday Miscellany • 01 Sep 21

Memories of a much loved Carlow shop - Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany • 31 Aug 21

The future of the arts in Ireland, post-Covid - what now?

Culture • 30 Aug 21

Major Compton-Smith and wife Gladys Mary Lloyd, 1916

Documentary On One: I Am To Be Shot

20 year old Saoirse Sheehan introduces this weekend's Documentary On One which is based on her secondary school project.

Documentary On One • 30 Aug 21

RTÉ Radio 1 Album Of The Week: Fever Dreams by Villagers

Music • 24 Aug 21

Whileaways & Lost Brothers singers to host Simply Folk

RTÉ Radio 1 • 19 Aug 21

Documentary On One: the men reporting on The Troubles

Documentary On One • 12 Aug 21

All about Paul - Daisy Lafarge on her acclaimed debut novel

Books • 09 Aug 21

Documentary On One: Return to Beirut, one year after

Documentary On One • 06 Aug 21

Wild One: Dara McAnulty talks to Ray

Books • 06 Aug 21

Aretha Franklin - the endless appeal of the Queen of Soul

Music • 07 Jan 22

Parker is back - RTÉ Arena talks to author John Connolly

RTÉ Arena • 19 Jul 21

Sunday Miscellany: No Regrets, 2004, by Frank Keegan

"We crossed over the French coast at Nice and tracked the necklace of lights stretching ahead along the Rhone Valley, then bid arrivederci to Rome Air traffic Control and switched over to French Radar in Paris..."

Sunday Miscellany • 19 Jul 21

Monster Mash: David Walliams talks books with Tubridy

Books • 08 Jul 21

Tim Carey and family with Hill Street Blues star Daniel J Travanti

Listen: Sunday Miscellany - My Mother and Captain Furillo

Captain Frank Furillo, Hill Street Blues and "let's be careful out there": Tim Carey on a television legend

Sunday Miscellany • 05 Jul 21

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? Séamas O'Reilly on his new memoir

Books • 26 Jul 21

Sunday Miscellany: My Brooklyn Story by Tom Ryan

"Travelling to America in 1914 for anyone, let alone a young girl who had never set foot outside of her parish, was a tremendous undertaking." Next, Tom Ryan imagines the emigration journey of his great-aunt Johanna from Killenaule, Co. Tipperary

Sunday Miscellany • 05 Jul 21

Author Deirdre Sullivan talks to RTÉ Arena

RTÉ Arena • 02 Jul 21

Sunday Miscellany: Poor Paddy Morrissey, by Joe O Muircheartaigh

Sunday Miscellany • 01 Jul 21

Sunday Miscellany: Dermot Bolger on an Irish newspaper legend

"Who is that?" my son asked. "That," I replied, "is nobility, the uncrowned king of journalists. You're looking at Con Houlihan, but really you're looking at Aragorn."

Sunday Miscellany • 23 Jun 21

Sunday Miscellany: My Father's Hands, by Clare Lynch

"His hands were lumpy dough. Uneven bales of flesh, pasty-coloured for all their outdoor life...."

Sunday Miscellany • 22 Jun 21

Sunday Miscellany: Fond memories of a favourite uncle

"I open the back door into the farmhouse and the dogs come bounding towards me. I smell the roast lamb, onions, carrots and potatoes cooking. His face lights up as I approach him, his arms outstretched for a hug, and I plant a soft kiss on his cheek.

Sunday Miscellany • 21 Jun 21