Sunday Miscellany

Sunday Miscellany: Angelus Bells and Autumn, by Maura Gilligan

Church bells' reverbaerations, from Calcutta to Sligo

Sunday Miscellany: Opera Nights, by AM Cousins

On volunteering as extras for a Wexford Opera Festival production of Zaide, starring a young Lesley Garrett

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

"When my feet were still forming and my wits were just beginning, I heard of Dublin and I would gasp..."

Sunday Miscellany: Enda Wyley celebrates the magic of Paul Durcan

Insights and encouragement from the great poet in an early 1990's writing workshop

Sunday Miscellany on catching sight of the Northern Lights

On catching sight of the Northern Lights from a Kerry headland last week

Sunday Miscellany: The Pyramid of Glasnevin, by Cormac Murray

Shelter from the storm: tracing the story of architect Liam McCormick's Met Éireann building

Tracing a family's Dublin Docklands roots in maps and stories...

Tracing a family's Dublin Docklands roots in maps and stories...

Sunday Miscellany: Broken Wings, by Vincent Woods

Sunday Miscellany: Kurdish Blood, Irish Heart, by Zak Moradi

On finding a safe home and good life in Leitrim...

Sunday Miscellany: Sun and Air, by Nell Regan

Sunday Miscellany: Carnegie and Me, by Aingeala Flannery

On the public library philanthropist and a writer's formation...

Sunday Miscellany: Samradh, by Manchán Magan

On Irish words for rain - and sunshine

Sunday Miscellany: Response to Stardust, by Mia Döring

On astrophysics and an elephant's trunk - and human connection

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: The Kerlogue, by Fran O'Rourke

On the amazing story of an Irish merchant ship and it's role in world War II naval history

Sunday Miscellany: My Pre-University Challenge, by Jennifer Carey

The family viewing ritual that played a major part in one student's formative education

Sunday Miscellany: Seeing Van Gogh's Sunflowers, by Jan Carson

On looking, creating, and owning - and getting ejected from the Van Gogh museum...

Sunday Miscellany: Memories of Moscow, 1980 by John Kirwan

An RTÉ sports commentator on the Olympics that burn brightest in the memory

Sunday Miscellany on a young girl's Olympic dreams

A girl's Olympic dreams, aided by Tarzan (and her dad) - for Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Olympic Golds, by Mae Leonard above.

Sunday Miscellany on the last time Clare won the All-Ireland

Home thoughts from abroad: a Banner girl tracks her county's 1995 glory

Sunday Miscellany: Éamonn Ó Muircheartaigh on his legendary dad

On the great Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's preparation rituals for the hurling final - with the help of his son

Sunday Miscellany: Sediment, Snake, Paris Library, by Alice Rekab

In praise of France and how to be in the world...

Sunday Miscellany: Affirmation, by Andrew Clancy

Time, building and what we leave behind

Sunday Miscellany: A Wee French Air, by Cornelius Browne

An artists's relations with a country where he has never been

Sunday Miscellany: Architect John Tuomey's fairytale of New York

A young architect's impressions of New York, and decades later is a significant place of work and friendships