New short essays:

Auspicious by Mark Roper

The Incidental Human Figures by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Coney Island of the Mind by Billy O’Callaghan

Slievenamon by Grace Wells

At Mount Mellary by Paddy Moran

Music: 

Inis Oirr performed by Ritchie Delahunty (guitar)

Shenandoah performed by Ciaran Hickey and The Tipperary Musical Society 

Winter Fire and Snow by Brendan Graham and Macdara Woods with Johanna Murray (soprano), Ritchie Delahunty (guitar) and John Murray (piano)

Slievenamon sung by Derek Ryan accompanied by Helen Colbert (piano)

This programme was recorded recently as part of the official programme Cashel Arts Festival 2013, in the Cathedral Church of St John The Baptist and St Patrick’s Rock, Cashel. Sunday Miscellany would like to thank the festival committee for their assistance in its making. Further contributions from the event will be included in next week’s programme.