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1971: Chelsea's Ron Harris tackles Manchester United's George Best. (Photo by A. Jones/Express/Getty Images)

Sunday Miscellany: George and Harry, by Roslyn Dee

A great footballing friendship: George Best and Harry Gregg

Sunday Miscellany • 04 Dec

historian Las Fallon in RTÉ Radio studio, behind the mic, smiling sideways to camera, Nov 2025

Sunday Miscellany: Las Fallon on The Great Liberties Whiskey Fire

On an all-but-forgotten night of disaster and heroism in the Liberties in Dublin

Sunday Miscellany • 03 Dec

Sunday Miscellany: Meeting the Poet, by Oliver Sears

A belated encounter with the great Derek Mahon in Kinsale

Sunday Miscellany • 02 Dec

Sunday Miscellany: The Revolution of Wheels, by Colin Regan

The role of that amazing two-wheeled machine, the High Nelly, in GAA history and tradition

Sunday Miscellany • 01 Dec

Sunday Miscellany: Letters for Mick, by Louise Hogan

On the outpouring of sympathy one family received after the passing of the only player shot by British forces on Bloody Sunday

Sunday Miscellany • 27 Nov

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Sunday Miscellany: John MacKenna's ode to the last Irish wolf

An ode to the last of the great Irish wolves that were driven into extinction...

Sunday Miscellany • 20 Nov

Sunday Miscellany: Cyphers 100, by Nell Regan

The importance of what Cyphers has done for literature in Ireland

Sunday Miscellany • 19 Nov

Sunday Miscellany: A poem for Sister Stan, by Rachael Hegarty

A poem for the late, much-missed Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, founder of Focus Ireland...

Sunday Miscellany • 17 Nov

Launch of Sunday Miscellany 2025 anthology Photo John McElroy/MAXWELL

'An intimate kind of magic' - Paul Howard on Sunday Miscellany

Author Paul Howard launched the latest Sunday Miscellany anthology in a packed-out Lexicon Library, Dún Laoghaire, as part of Dublin Book Festival, last weekend. Here's what he said...

Books • 12 Nov

Isabella Chiadini, for Sunday Miscellany, 2025

Sunday Miscellany: Life Beneath the Sod, by Isabella Chiadini

On viewing Shane Hynan's Bog Self-Portrait, from his Beneath/Beofhód series

Sunday Miscellany • 30 Oct

Marion McGarry, in RTÉ Sligo studio for Sunday Miscellany, behind mic, 2025

Sunday Miscellany: The Last Briquette, by Marion McGarry

On a father's appreciation of that iconic Irish deisgn item: the Bord na Móna peat briquette

Sunday Miscellany • 29 Oct

Sunday Miscellany: An Architectural Wild Card, by Graham Hickey

"A moody teenager with a rolling identity crisis": saluting an overlooked gem of Dublin architecture

Sunday Miscellany • 16 Oct

Sunday Miscellany: My Mother's House, by Julie Cruickshank

Competing visions of tradition, modernity, and what a house should be, in rural Galway

Sunday Miscellany • 15 Oct

poet Felispeaks in RTÉ Radio studio for Sunday Miscellany, 2024

Sunday Miscellany: Dublin, A Poet's View, by FeliSpeaks

Views of the capital from this poet's perspective

Sunday Miscellany • 14 Oct

Sunday Miscellany: The Shipping Lanes, in memory of Derek Mahon

Marking the 5th anniversary of the passing of one of Ireland's pre-eminent poets, Derek Mahon

Sunday Miscellany • 29 Sep

Sunday Miscellany remembers poet Michael Hartnett

Memories of when he first became aware of 'the poet'

Sunday Miscellany • 30 Sep

Sunday Miscellany: In Between, by Beth Kilkenny

Where do you belong, if you belong to many places at the same time?

Sunday Miscellany • 01 Oct

Georg Grote, in RTÉ Radio studio for Sunday Miscellany, behind mic and smiling up at camera, 2025

Sunday Miscellany: A Letter for German George, by Georg Grote

On an extraordinary encounter with a Jewish refugee on the M25 - and the miracles of the Irish postal service

Sunday Miscellany • 24 Sep

President Michael D Higgins reads Stardust for Sunday Miscellany

"It is of stardust we are, moulded by vapours and fragments, from the making and breaking of galaxies...."

Sunday Miscellany • 11 Nov

Sunday Miscellany: The Whistling City, by Antonia Hart

On an Eden Quay boarding-house, the members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and the events of 1916

Sunday Miscellany • 23 Sep

Sunday Miscellany: Third Sunday in September, by Frank Shouldice

"Croke Park will today be silent, out of kilter with the natural order..."

Sunday Miscellany • 24 Sep

architect Emmett Scanlon in RTÉ Radio studio, behind mic, smiling to camera, 2024

Sunday Miscellany: The Bog Bothy, by Emmett Scanlon

Why the Irish Architecture Foundation wanted to build a Bog Bothy in the midlands

Sunday Miscellany • 10 Sep

Sunday Miscellany: An Emigrant Bog-Dweller, by Karen McHugh

Translation challenges for the words 'turf' and 'bog' in cultures where they don't exist

Sunday Miscellany • 08 Sep

writer Niamh Donnellan in an RTÉ Radio studio, behind mic and smiling towards camera, 2025

Sunday Miscellany: The Old Bog Road, by Niamh Donnellan

Connecting with our Iron Age ancestors, who created something amazing in a bog in Corlea, Longford

Sunday Miscellany • 09 Sep

Sunday Miscellany: All Aboard The State Coach, by Jonathan White

From King Edward VII to de Valera, the remarkable story of Ireland's ornate State Coach, carriage 351

Sunday Miscellany • 04 Sep