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Episode Notes
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
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