Sunday Miscellany Sunday 27 October 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:
The Coastal Path Home by Gerard Beirne;
The Manorhamilton Fort by Brian Leyden;
Hiraeth, Carrickarnon, by Louise Kennedy;
Rain and Sunshine, a poem by Denise Blake,
and
Lessons from Leitrim’s Coastal Frontier by Colin Regan
Music:
Síos an Sliabh, sung by Ellie Nic Fhionngaile
Two Highlands, introduced by Tara Connaghan and played by herself and Ellie Nic Fhionngaile on fiddles;
On Lying, a song written and performed by Sarah E Cullen;
An instrumental interlude by Hatchlings
And
Choir in the Belly, also by Hatchlings, and Hatchlings are a multi-instrumentalist and multi-vocal ensemble: Eamon Travers, Niall Quinn, Peter Kelly, Jamie Bishop and Conor Cunningham
On today's programme recorded live in Ballyshannon: The Coastal Path Home by Gerard Beirne; The Manorhamilton Fort by Brian Leyden; Hiraeth, Carrickarnon, by Louise Kennedy; Rain and Sunshine, a poem by Denise Blake, and Lessons from Leitrim's Coastal Frontier by Colin Regan
A chance meeting with Brian Friel has a happy ending
The story of the star-shaped fortress overlooking the town of Manorhamilton
Memories of moving south in the 70s at the height of the Troubles
Stories from Leitrim's 3-mile coastline
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
Síos An Sliabh
Ellie Nic Fhionngaile
2:24
Two Highland Dances
Tara Connaghan And Ellie Nic Fhiongaile
2:26
On Lying
Sarah E Cullen
3:00
Instrumental Interlude
Hatchlings
0:42
Choir In The Belly
Hatchlings
3:00
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Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey