Sunday Miscellany

Ghosts, matinee idols + a lost manuscript...
Full ine-up 1 Nov 2025
Not Walking with Kofi: Georg Grote
November Dead List: Louise Kennedy
Trying to Remember: Beth Kilkenny
Dylan Thomas’s Lost Manuscript: Justin MacCarthy
Opera Nights: Roslyn Dee
Then and Now: John F Deane @rteradio1.bsky.social

A selection 19/10/25 @rteradio1.bsky.social Red Line Book Festival + Waterford Writers Weekend: Frankie Gaffney, Eileen Battersby, John Connell, AM Cousins, Rosaleen McDonagh, Catherine Foley, Donal Clancy, Far Flung Trio, The Finns, Cór Fear na nDéise: listen: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Emmett Scanlon

Éimear Arthur

Cormac Murray

FeliSpeaks

How our built environment shapes us: Architecture & the City, marks Open House Dublin '25 (first broadcast 13 October 2024). From 9.10am, Sunday 12 Oct. With Éimear Arthur, Cormac Murray, Emmett Scanlon, Kevin Marinan, Graham Hickey, Julie Cruickshank, @felispeaks.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social

Ringing bells, magical nights in Dublin theatres+ Cork's Lobby Bar, + foraging for treasure... #sundaymiscellany is on air now with Dominic Dromgoole Adam Trodd Bernadett Buda Aoife Barry David Grant and Noelle Lynskey #brianfriel #MaeveBinchy #manchanmagan Tune in! @sweetoblivion.bsky.social

Michael Hartnett

Eavan Boland

Derek Mahon

Mary O'Donnell

A poetry-infused line-up today... 28/09 @rteradio1.bsky.social
Zero Degrees: Donal Hayes
September Migration: Grace Wells
Free Books: Joe Whelan
The Other House: Mary O’Donnell
Hartnett Back By the Arra: Mike MacDomhnaill
In Between: Beth Kilkenny
The Shipping Lanes: Mary O’Malley i.m. Derek Mahon

Strange days, pangs of youth and a “whistling city”… #sundaymiscellany is coming up with Paul Muldoon Carol Taaffe Conall Hamill Georg Grote Antonia Hart Frank Shouldice, 9am-10am @rteradio1.bsky.social 21 Sep
listen in for details of our Christmas show with @rteco.rte.ie at the NCH Dublin! 🎄❄️✨

President Michael D Higgins reads 'Stardust'

Rita Ann Higgins reads her poems 'Hermit of Glendalough' and 'Edict'

Manchán Magan reads 'Samradh'

Cormac Begley performing

This Sunday, a re-broadcast of our 2024 Culture Night special from Áras an Uachtaráin-great writing &music. 14 Sept, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social with @manchanmagan.bsky.social @timcarey1.bsky.social Mia Döring, Rita Ann Higgins, Donal Ryan, @president.ie www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany/

Margaret Hickey

Karen McHugh

Anthony Baggott

Emmett Scanlon

A special @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social celebrating Irish boglands, in collaboration with Irish Architecture Foundation. With Margaret Hickey, Niamh Donnellan, Karen McHugh, Anthony Baggott, Emmett Scanlon and Claire Cotter. Sept 7, 9.10am @irisharchitecturef.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social

Ireland’s State Coach, bittersweet first day of school, Thackeray’s travels in Ireland, and robbing orchards. @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social is coming up, with Jonathan White, Zoë Devlin, Enda Wyley, Lourdes Mackey, John MacKenna, Grace Wells and Tom Conaty. Aug 31, 9.10am @rteradio1.bsky.social

Kathy Donaghy

Paul Muldoon

#LeavingCert result jitters, seeing fox cubs by night + the magic of the circus: Denise Blake, Emma Prunty, Kathy Donaghy, Denis Tuohy, John MacKenna... plus a new poem from Paul Muldoon... Sunday Miscellany is coming up 9am
@rteradio1.bsky.social
RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 24 August 2025. Tune in!

The Baltic Way from Wikimedia Commons, credit: Kusurija - Own work

Photo of Gallagher brothers from Wikimedia Commons, credit: Will Fresch

Owls, Oasis and a literary whodunnit, and tremors of history from the atom bomb to the fall of the Soviet Union. #sundaymiscellany is on the way, 9am 10 August 2025 @rteradio1.bsky.social with David Coughlan @maevelucia.bsky.social Joe Taylor Denise Blake Conor Hanratty Mary O'Donnell. Tune in!

Guardian angels, night owls +boarding school blues: an archive dip's on now @rteradio1.bsky.social: Michael Harding Eugene McEldowney Vona Groarke Peter Jankowsky Geraldine Mitchell Kieran Fagan + the late, much missed Mary Russell. Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

John Toal, aged five, and his father meet Mick O'Dwyer in Waterville, County Kerry

Regina Devenney

Tony Griffin

Denise Blake

Dreams of Sam Maguire from Killybegs to Kenmare, Leonard Cohen's magical Lissadell concert + more... #sundaymiscellany 9am @rteradio1.bsky.social 27/07/25 @johnnytoal.bsky.social Regina Devenney John S Doyle Tony Griffin Noel King Denise Blake John Cooney #allirelandfinal #Kerry #Donegal Tune in!

Sunday Miscellany - RTÉ Radio 1 New writing for radio, accompanied by complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning since 1968 // Producer: Sarah Binchy; Broadcast Co-ordinator: Elaine Conlan

Adventures in hitchhiking, hurlers’ hopes and dreams, a barefoot wonder and an elephant in Phibsborough Sunday Miscellany 20/07/25 on now! Doireann Ní Bhriain Joe Whelan Cormac Murray Theo Dorgan Lani O'Hanlon John Allen #HurlingFinal #corkvtipp Listen in/back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Hazy summer days from West Kerry to Beirut, saluting the pioneering Yeats sisters, + Live Aid 40 years on. #sundaymiscellany is on the way Michael Hilliard Mulcahy Eunan McKinney Mae Leonard Alexander McMaster Angela Keogh Mariam Tell Vincent Woods @rteradio1.bsky.social
9am 13/07/25 Tune in!

From Glastonbury to Monet’s garden, from a bed for the night for the Championship in Clare to a St John's Eve bonfire. Sunday Miscellany is on now Conall Hamill Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha Joe Rooney @johnnytoal.bsky.social @maevelucia.bsky.social Antonia Gunko Karelina @rteradio1.bsky.social

Footballs and faith healers, a nightwalk through Sydney, and a visit to Joyce’s Nighttown... Sunday Miscellany is on air now with Colin Regan Kieran Fitzgerald Grace Wells Fran O'Rourke Katrina Bruna and Christian O'Reilly. #Bloomsday #FathersDay Tune in! #sundaymiscellany
@rteradio1.bsky.social

On this morning's #sundaymiscellany 8 June 2025 Ways of Seeing: live at Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social
@lucycaldwell.bsky.social Glenn Patterson Emily Byers-Ferrian Maria McManus Trú
Scott Flanigan Sinéad McKenna @rteradio1.bsky.social

6. Going for the Milk, a poem by Catherine Foley.

With music from Luka Bloom, Luke Kelly, Beth Orton, Nick Drake and more...
You can also listen live or later on the RTÉ Radio app #sundaymiscellany

Full line-up:
1. Silver Sparks, by Alexander McMaster;
2. The Trapeze Artists of Burgh Quay, by Denis McClean;
3. Come Here You, by Rachael Hegarty;
4. The Four Healers, by Lani O’Hanlon;
5. A Veteran of the War, by Leo Cullen,
and

Lani O'Hanlon

Denis McClean

Exam jitters, the glorious bog lands of Donegal, and the glory days of the Irish Press newspaper remembered. Sunday Miscellany is coming up Sunday 1 June 9.10am Tune in! @rteradio1.bsky.social
Listen in/ listen back: rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany

Rollercoaster of an episode - @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social

Epic poem by Vincent Woods, “A Dance in the Gap of Time”.

Elizabeth Oxley

Maeve Edwards

Campervan travels on the Baltic coast +a change in the weather, bread of heaven and a Colorado Rocky Mountain high… Sunday Miscellany is on the way 9.10am Sunday 25 May @rteradio1.bsky.social with Alexander McMaster
@maevelucia.bsky.social Michael Hamell Elizabeth Oxley Vincent Woods. Tune in!

Dinner with the (future) Pope, baby birds and empty nests, a tribute to a beloved brother and a kind of homecoming. #sundaymiscellany is on air now @rteradio1.bsky.social with Gráinne Quinlan William Wall Fabian McGrath Joan Shiels Eileen Heron Hugo Hamilton. Tune in! #eurovision @rte.ie

Sunday Miscellany celebrates the joys of lambing season A seasonal activity that can be harsh, but also strangely therapeutic

A joy to see them

Sunday Miscellany celebrates the joys of lambing season www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Transporting Bees in Dublin, by Kevin Connolly Wrecking a beekeeper’s buzz in rush-hour traffic

Do yourself a favour and have a listen to this from Sunday Miscellany @rteone.rte.ie: Transporting bees in Dublin www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Always recommend RTE’s Sunday Miscellany for this. Lovely, small, personal, charming stories. 100 or so episodes in the archives. Look forward to the new one all week

Listen back shortly at rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany... or subscribe to our podcast feed -- it will go up later today

Another must-listen episode of @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social
Emotional and fascinating.

This one, Louise www.google.com/search?q=can...