MARKING CULTURE NIGHT, AT THE ÁRAS, September 2024

Sharing some images here from a wonderful night on Friday 13th Septembr at Áras an Uachtaráin, hosted by President Higgins and Sabina Higgins, a special advance recording of Sunday Miscellany to mark Culture Night. Our guests were writers Aingeala Flannery, Manchán Magan, Tim Carey, Nell Regan, Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Séamus Barra Ó Suilleabháin and Donal Ryan, with musicians Cormac Begley, Niwel Tsumbu & Éamonn Cagney, Dónal Clancy & Áine McHugh and Clare Sands. We were joined by an appreciative audience who had applied to Áras an Uachtaráin through public lottery for tickets. The programmes from this event will be broadcast on Sunday 22nd September and Sunday 29th September at 9am on RTÉ Radio 1, and the first programme on the 22nd will include the President reading his own poem, Stardust. Enormous thanks to all at Áras an Uachtaráin. Photos courtesy of Áras an Uachtaráin/ Maxwell Photography

the President & Mrs Higgins arrive at venue
Donal Ryan reads 'A Pagan Place'
Clare Sands performs
Rita Ann Higgins reads her poem 'The Hermit of Glendalough'
Cormac Begley performs
Aingeala Flannery reads 'Carnegie and Me'
Éamonn Cagney and Niwel Tsumbu perform
the writers take their final bow (l to r: Donal Ryan, Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin, Rita Ann Higgins, Manchán Magan, Mia Döring, Nell Regan, Tim Carey and Aingeala Flannery

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Sunday Miscellany Live at the Belfast Book Festival, Crescent Arts Centre, 9th June 2024

the writers taking their final bow

Lucy Caldwell reads 'Seeing Things'

Sinéad McKenna and Mickey Fearon performing

Glenn Patterson reads 'Ways of Seeing: Peekaboo' while musicians Trú look on

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Sunday Miscellany Live at the Imagine Arts Festival, Waterford, 26th October 2019

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Sunday Miscellany Live at Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, Sunday 6th October 2019

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Sunday Miscellany, An Glór, Ennis, 3rd March 2019