Sunday Miscellany Sunday 22 November 2020
Bloody Sunday remembered, a special programme on the day of bloodshed that was 21 November, 1920 in Dublin, supported by the GAA Museum at Croke Park, with Chris Shouldice, Michael Foley, Anthony Ryan, Anne Dolan, Paul Rouse and Louise Hogan
The letters mentioned by Louise Hogan in her script form part of the GAA Museum's Remembering Bloody Sunday exhibition -- which honours the victims and tells their stories -- alongside other documents, objects and personal items. Currently closed to visitors, the Museum will reopen safely when Government Covid restrictions allow
Music:
The Battle of Aughrim, played by Mary McNamara on concertina;
The Wounded Hussar, played by Anna Ludlow on fiddle;
Sliabh Gallon Braes, played by Liam O'Flynn on tin whistle;
Benjamin Britten’s Cello Suite no. 3 opus 87, Street Song, played by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky;
Billy’s Death, from Billy the Kid by Aaron Copland also performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Antal Doráti
Bloody Sunday remembered, a podcast of the special programme on the day of bloodshed that was 21 November 1920 in Dublin, supported by the GAA Museum at Croke Park, with Chris Shouldice, Michael Foley, Anthony Ryan, Anne Dolan, Paul Rouse and Louise Hogan
The writer's father, Jack Shouldice, organised the match at Croke Park that day
On honouring the victims of the Croke Park massacre, and the GAA graves project
A Tipperary player and IRA Volunteer's account of the day, as retold by his son
The morning's bloodshed, and its reverberations through the decades
'The events of Bloody Sunday quickly took on a significance that occluded the suffering of the bereaved.'
Michael Hogan's grand-niece on the outpouring of sympathy to her family on his loss, 100 years ago
New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968.
The Battle Of Aughrim
Mary Mcnamara
1:45
The Wounded Hussar
Anna Ludlow
2:32
Sliabh Gallon Braes
Liam O'Flynn (Whistle)
1:53
Cello Suite No. 3, Cello Suite No. 3 Op. 87
London Symphony Orchestra
0:35
Billy's Death
London Symphony Orchestra
1:10
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Broadcasting Co-ordinator: Carolyn Dempsey