Sunday Miscellany Sunday 14 July 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:
On this morning’s programme:
Bouncing on the Moon, by Monica Corish;
Bastille Day 1979, by Conall Hamill;
The Fields in his Eyes, by Lani O’Hanlon;
Irish Queen of Wimbledon, by Tommy O’Rourke;
Rivers of Life, by James Harpur,
And
Soul/ Anam, a poem in English and Irish, by Vincent Woods
Music:
Moonglow, played by Artie Shaw and his Orchestra;
L’Accordioniste, by Edith Piaf;
Dancing in the Moonlight, by Thin Lizzy;
Lawn Tennis, composed by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger and played on piano by Stig Ribbing;
And
After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
On this morning's programme, we heard: Bouncing on the Moon by Monica Corish; Bastille Day 1979 by Conall Hamill; The Fields in his Eyes by Lani O'Hanlon; Irish Queen of Wimbledon by Tommy O'Rourke; Rivers of Life by James Harpur and, Soul/ Anam, a poem in English and Irish, by Vincent Woods
Monica Corish stays up late for the moon landing
Conall Hamill on two contrasting national day celebrations in Paris
Lani O'Hanlon tries not to tame a feral cat
Tommy O'Rourke on Lena Rice, Ireland's only female Wimbledon champion
James Harpur on the break with the sacred that polluted rivers signify
A poem in English and Irish, by Vincent Woods
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
Moonglow
Artie Shaw
3:26
L’Accordioniste
Edith Piaf
3:07
Dancing In The Moonlight
Thin Lizzy
3:20
Frösöblomster I, For Piano, Op. 16: Iii. Lawn Tennis
Stig Ribbing
2:19
After The Gold Rush
Neil Young
3:43
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