Sunday Miscellany Sunday 12 May 2019
Tickets for next year's recording at the Ennis Book Club Festival in Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare, have just gone on sale.
A new book celebrating 50 years of Sunday Miscellany has just been published by New Island Books. This anthology of essays and poetry were read for the first time at Miscellany50, a live event in the Project Arts Centre last December.
New Writing:
You’ll Never Walk Alone, by Mark Brennock,
Hedgehog, by Margaret Hickey;
In Search of the Homeplace, by Kevin McDermott;
In The Name of the Father, by Roslyn Dee;
And
The 17th of May, 1974, by Rachael Hegarty
Music:
You’ll Never Walk Alone, sung first by the crowd at Anfield last Tuesday night, and then by Gerry and the Pacemakers;
Sugar, Sugar, by the Archies;
Duetti Irlandesi for Cello and Piano: Im Aonar Seal, composed by Frank Corcoran and played by Martin Johnson on cello with Fergal Caulfield on piano,
And Midnight Rider, by the Allman Brothers
On today's programme: You’ll Never Walk Alone by Mark Brennock, Hedgehog by Margaret Hickey; In Search of the Homeplace by Kevin McDermott; In The Name of the Father by Roslyn Dee; and The 17th of May 1974 by Rachael Hegarty
In an extraordinary week for Liverpool Football Club, Mark Brennock explores the story of the song "You'll Never Walk Alone"
Margaret Hickey recalls a spectacular culinary disaster
Kevin McDermott contemplates family roots and a sense of belonging
Roslyn Dee pays tribute to the Dunlop road racing dynasty, ahead of the North West 200
Rachael Hegarty recalls the day of the Dublin/Monaghan bombings
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
You'll Never Walk Alone
Gerry And The Pacemakers
2:40
Sugar Sugar
The Archies
2:57
Duetti Irlandesi For Cello And Piano:
Martin Johnson On Cello With Fergal Caulfield On Piano
2:42
Midnight Rider
The Allman Brothers Band
2:56
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Producer: Sarah Binchy
Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey