Sunday Miscellany
Sunday Miscellany 28 November 2010 on RTE Radio 1: The second of 2 programmes from the Donegal Bay and Bluestack Festival recorded in The Abbey Centre, Ballyshannon, Co Donegal
This podcast has new writing from John Breen, Michael Harding, Winifred McNulty, Brian Leyden and Denise Blake read at the Sunday Miscellany event at the Dongela Bay and Bluestacks Festival in September 2010. The programme was made with the support of The Donegal Arts Office with special thanks to Traolach ó Fionnáin. The programme is introduced and porduced by Clíodhna Ní Anluain
Sunday Miscellany 10 October 2010 from The Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. This is the first of two RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday Miscellany programmes recorded as part of the official programme of the Tenth Annual Donegal Bay and Bluestack Arts Festival 2010. Contributors of new essays written especially for this programme are Little John Nee, Pádraig McGinn, Olive Travers, Marie Hannigan and Kevin Barry.
Sunday Miscellany 22 May 2011 – New short writing on RTÉ Radio 1
New writing on this podcast: The Yanks are Coming Mae Leonard, A Coin in a Jukebox in Minnesota – poem for Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday by Gerard Smyth, I Sing America by Denise Blake, Manically Motoring Through Moneygall by Leo Cullen, Us and Them by Sue Norton,
Sunday Miscellany 16 October 2011 – The frist of 2 programmes form the Donegal Bay and Bluestack Festival 2011 – New short writingo n RTÉ Radio 1 New Short essays: It’s In The Face by Winifred McNulty, Football by Peter Hull, The Awful Truth by Carlo Gebler, The Mimetic Homes of Donegal by Ann Hull and The Diary of Mary Anne Sheil by Anthony Begley
Sunday Miscellany 23 October – from Clifden Arts Week 2011- New short writing on RTÉ Radio 1
New poetry and Essays: 1957 – a poem by Gerard Smyth, Galway Muesli by Geraldine Mills, This is Not about Windmills by Mary O’Malley, Waiting for the Island Boat by Denise Blake, The Crescent Church by Bill Whelan and The Present by Siobhan Mannion.
Sunday Miscellany 13 November 2011 – The second of two programmes from the Donegal Bay and Bluestacks Festival 2011
New short essays from Anthony Glavin, Little John Nee, Denise Blake, Moya Cannon and Frank Galligan.
Sunday Miscellany 22 July 2012: RTÉ Radio 1
Mary Russell, Donal Magner, Gerry Moran, Denise Blake and Claire Coughlin: new short essays – The Déise Bus by Mary Russell; The Forester by Donal Magner, My Olympic Gold by Gerry Moran; Growing Old with Bruce Springsteen by Denise Blake and Zelda by Claire Coughlin
Sunday Miscellany RTE Radio 1 2 Sept.2012
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Duration: 44.06 Available on podcast or RealPlayer
Spoken content:
A Fairytale from Riga by Judith Mok (r)
The poem Father to Son by Denise Blake (r )
Dance Lessons with Brother Arnold by Leo Cullen (r)
Out on The Bog by Liz Lyons ( r)
Amazing Grace by Brian Lynch (r )
There Is A Monument At Babi Yar by Karl O’Neill
Sunday Miscellany 23 September 2012
This programme marks All Ireland Football Championship Sunday 2012
Spoken content:
The Big Match by Padraig McGinn The House of Pain by Tom Rowley
Con Houlihan by Cyril Kelly My First All Ireland by Patrick Coleman
My Mother’s County by Leo Cullen
Sunday Miv. 18th 2012 http://www.rte.ie/radio1/sunday-miscellany/programmes/2012/1118/351935-2012-11-18/
This programme was recorded in the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, a collaboration with the Donegal Bay and Bluestacks Festival, Co Donegal, with thanks also to the Sandhouse Hotel, Rossnowlagh, Co Donegal.
Spoken Content:
Taking The Silk and On Discovering My Deceased Father on Google Street View – 2 poems by Joseph Woods
In the Shadow of the Big House by Ann Hull
Stella Maris by Deirdre Hines
Where Poems Begin by Enda Wyley
After the Final by Denise Blake
Music:
The Wishing Tree, We and the Moon are Neighbours and Leaving Lerwick Harbour performed by Seamus McGuire and Garry Ó Briain
Humoresque by Dvorak performed by Donegal Camerata Ensemble
Máire Bhruinneall sung by Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde with the Donegal Camerata Ensemble
Sunday Miscellany 1 December 2013
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The Troubled Shade of Dorothea Herbert by Michael Coady
The Coleridge Way by Alannah Hopkins
For Sale: Twelve Ninety one Bonnieview Avenue – a poem by Denise Blake
Maeve Brennan by Sinéad Gleeson
Shark Cage, Diving, South Africa by Kevin Dawson
Music:
How Beautiful are the Feet by George Friedrich Handel song by Emma English accompanied by Helen Colbert
Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah performed byThe Dolmen Quartet
Cashel Community School Junior Choir singing ‘I’m Going Up a Yonder’, accompanied by Deirdre Ryan Preston
Sophisticated Lady by Ellington- Parish-Mills performed by Duke Ellington and his Band.
Some of this programme was recorded recently as part of the official programme Cashel Arts Festival 2013,
All Ireland Sunday Sept 21st 2014
This is Donegal , Denise Blake contributions by Tom Rowley, Olive Travers, Cyril Kelly, Denise Blake and Joe Ó Muircheartaigh
Sunday Miscellany 19 October 2014
This morning’s programme was recorded in the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon as part of the Donegal Bay and Blue Stacks Festival 2014, in association with the Donegal Arts Office and the Sandhouse Hotel, Rossnowlagh.
The spoken contributions were: Marie Hannigan, Siobhán McNamara, Stories and Memories by Denise Blake, Antrim Conversation – a poem by Moya Cannon, Pat Boran
Music: Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazzolla and Intermède-pizzicato by Louis Laporte performed by the Donegal Camerata Quintet, Fantasie Impromptu (slow movement) by Chopin performed by Marie Askin (piano), Iníon an Bhaoilligh sung by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh, James Byrne’s Waltz, The Road to Glenlough performed by Martin McGinley (fiddle) and Brian O’Sullivan (guitar)
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