Book Launch of Sunday Miscellany: A Selection 2023-2025
Published by New Island

Check out our photos from the Sunday Miscellany book launch which took place in dlr Lexicon library, Dun Laoghaire, as part of the Dublin Book Festival in November.

Following on from the bestselling 2023 anthology, this collection brings together some of the best broadcasts of the past three years, arranged in calendar months.

It has already been shortlisted for a 2025 An Post Irish Book Award (in TheJournal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year category). Full details (and voting facility) here

SUNDAY MISCELLANY ANTHOLOGY BOOK LAUNCH, NOVEMBER 2025

Sunday Miscellany book launch
Paul Howard
Sunday Miscellany book launch
Elizabeth Oxley

Sunday Miscellany book launch
Rachael Hegarty
Sunday Miscellany book launch
Conor Linehan

Sunday Miscellany book launch
Cassia Gaden-Gilmartin
Sunday Miscellany book launch
Grace Wilentz

Sunday Miscellany book launch
Tom Ryan
Sunday Miscellany book launch
Conor Linehan
Sunday Miscellany book launch
Emily Byers-Ferrian

Sunday Miscellany book launch
Sarah Binchy

Sunday Miscellany book launch
Conor Linehan and Valerie Walters

Sunday Miscellany book launch
Éamonn Ó Muircheartaigh

Sunday Miscellany book launch
Mike Mac Domhnaill and Carmel Mac Domhnaill

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PREVIOUS BOOK...

Our previous anthology, Sunday Miscellany: A Recent Selection (2018-2023), published by New Island Books, won a 2023 Irish Book Award for thejournal.ie Best Irish-Published Book of the Year.

It featured for ten weeks in the Irish Top 10 best-seller lists and it is on sale in bookshops nationwide, or available online from newisland.ie

You can browse a range of the coverage that has featured in print and online at the following links:

Irish Examiner review / Meath Chronicle review / Anglo Celt review / The Sunday Times review /

Sunday Business Post review / The Journal.ie review / Irish Independent review / Sunday Independent review / Ireland's Own Christmas Annual – Tom McGurk's John McCormack piece

Announcement of Irish Book Award / Georgia College and State University News announcement

Arena RTÉ Radio 1 feature / Other features in: Thejournal.ie / Publishing Perspectives / The Irish Times / East Coast fm / The Bookseller

Miriam O'Callaghan launched the book in the Lexicon Library in Dún Laoghaire in November 2023 as part of Dublin Book Festival – see a gallery of photos from the launch below

SUNDAY MISCELLANY ANTHOLOGY BOOK LAUNCH, NOVEMBER 2023

Miriam O'Callaghan, Mariel Deegan of New Island, Sarah Binchy

Readers on the night: (l to r) John Toal, Rachael Hegarty and Paul Howard

Contributor John F Deane and his wife Ursula

contributor Katrina Bruna and Padma Raje

Contributor Oliver Sears and Catherine Punch

Contributor Sharon Hogan

Contributor Mark Brennock and Yetti Redmond

Contributor Anne Delaney and Con Ward

contributor Tim Carey and his daughter Jennifer, also a contributor!

A full house at the dlr Lexicon for the launch

Miriam O'Callaghan opens proceedings....

...and musicians Malachy Robinson (double blass) and Dermot Dunne (accordion) take to the stage

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Writing the Bog: Sunday 7 September and Sunday 26 October

Listen back to our 2-part special 'Writing the Bog' - a celebration of the Irish Architecture Foundation and 12th Field's Bog Bothy project. The programmes went out on Sunday 7 September and Sunday 26 October. Our thanks to everyone who sent in a script!

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**CHRISTMAS CONCERT 2025** Sunday Miscellany Live at Christmas with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and special guests takes place this year at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, on Tuesday 2 December. Tickets went on sale on Friday 26 September on the National Concert Hall website and this event is now sold out.

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