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Episode Notes
New short essays:
When ‘the Light’ came to the Island by Maura Gilligan
Knights with Umbrellas by Mae Leonard
Journey- December 2013 a poem by Paul Ryan
The Ill-fated Connolly Family by Kieran Foley
The Orphans’ Dinner by Gerry Moran
Rome, 1965 by John Horgan
Music:
‘Lighting the Carols’ by Franz Liszt performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra.
‘The De'vil's Awa' Wi' The Exciseman’ by Robert Burns sung by Kenneth McKellar
‘The Journey’ by Alexis Ffrench played by him on piano with Gagliano Strings.
‘Johnny Seoighe’ played by Anne-Marie O'Farrell & Cormac De Barra
‘O Tannenbaum’ sung by Kiri Te Kanawa