New writing (part 2 of a 'Writing the Bog' special, in collaboration with the Irish Architecture Foundation's Bog Bothy project):

The Deserts of the Midlands by Adam Trodd

One Step from the Bog by Anne Gately Mercier

A Soft Day on the Bog by Kevin McDermott

The Last Briquette by Marion McGarry

Life Beneath the Sod: Viewing Shane Hynan's Bog Self-Portrait, by Isabella Chiadini

Silver Sparks by Alexander McMaster

Music:

Dragonflies, by Eleanor Shanley

The Mushroom Tree and The Kid on the Mountain played by Eimear McGeown on whistle and Donogh Hennessy on guitar

A Soft Day Thank God, a Winifred Letts poem set to music; the composer was CV Stanford, and the singer was mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty with Finghín Collins on piano

The Marino Waltz, by John Sheahan

Éiridh na Gréine, by Steve Cooney