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.
Sunday Miscellany
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
Sunday Miscellany Podcast, 14th July 2019
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
Bouncing on the Moon
Monica Corish stays up late for the moon landing
Bastille Day 1979
Conall Hamill on two contrasting national day celebrations in Paris
The Fields in his Eyes
Lani O'Hanlon tries not to tame a feral cat
Irish Queen of Wimbledon
Tommy O'Rourke on Lena Rice, Ireland's only female Wimbledon champion
Rivers of Life
James Harpur on the break with the sacred that polluted rivers signify
Soul / Anam
A poem in English and Irish, by Vincent Woods
About The Show
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
Music Played on the Show
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
Sunday Miscellany
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