Sunday Miscellany

On the much-maligned Irish domestic servants in the US in the late 19th century

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How a childhood friend's destiny became entwined with the Ground Zero site

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On an uncle's treasured gold watch and "the nicest man he ever met"

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Supporting an American couple on holiday in Ireland in their hour of tragedy

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Marvelling at the enchantment of travellers from southern Africa to a Donegal garden

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Losing Leonard, a labrador non-pareil

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Brawling, carousing and sapient pigs at the famous Dublin festival through the centuries

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One family's very personal ties to the very origins of Irish national broadcasting

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Relocating to Japan, where the weather, the language and the way of life mean major re-adjustments

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Automatic responses when nature strikes, even in the most unforgiving of places

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A retiring school principal clears out his office

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A school spelling bee, and the moral dilemma posed by the prize of a green iced lolly

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Memories of school in London at the outbreak of war, and the day the author and her classmates were evacuate

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A schoolboy business venture involving homemade lemonade, and the painful consequences of its success

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Reflections on parenthood and the passage of time, as a daughter is about to begin secondary school

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His children beginning school marks a new beginning for Seamus Heaney

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A chance encounter with an old schoolmaster, and an unexpected musical request

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Considering the fickleness of memory, and why seemingly insignificant moments can remain with us for a lifetime

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On life in a lodging house called Kilkenny House in Dublin – an All-Ireland mecca

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A childhood summer on the family farm, and a scene perceived from a hiding place in the long grass

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The closure of the Grafton Gallery evokes memories of the artists, writers and characters of Dublin’s bohemian life

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Recalling childhood memories of family life, and understanding why a father was “always looking backwards”

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An appreciation of the writer and academic Seán Ó Tuama, and his contribution to Irish-language literary criticism

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A glorious serenade to the power of song

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A mother's knowledge and love of music passed on through the Pye record player

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Early musical experimentation that ranged wildly before finally settling at the organ in a Limerick cinema

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Choral competitiveness in a small Welsh village, with a legend-in-waiting amongst the performers

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The eternally patient piano teacher striving to teach less-than enthusiastic pupils...and one less-than-competent sight reader

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The transportive powers of Count John McCormack stretch across generations - and oceans

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Meditations on character from the Miscellany archive, with John Ryan, Bill Kelly, Catherine Marshall, Michael Harding, Val Mulkerns and Maria O'Rourke.

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The mysteries of cricket, the joy of the Park Run, celebrations of writer Maura Laverty and musician Glen Hansard — and a tempting treat for a magpie, with John O'Donnell, AM Cousins, John Egan, Breda Joyce, Denis Tuohy, Jackie Lynam and Grace Wells.

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From a mighty session in Dingle to Croagh Patrick to the Heinrich Böll cottage in Achill, an All-Ireland state of mind, with Séamus Moran, Grace Wells, John Lawler, Mary Lavery Carrig, Frank Shouldice and Geraldine Mitchell.

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Limerick and Galway All-Ireland hopes, a Ukrainian love story and the sweet pleasures of a day on the bog, with Antonia Gunko Karelina, Barry Houlihan, Anne Marie Kennedy, Mike MacDomhnaill, Ann Lane O’Connell, John Vincent Cunningham and Bob Kelly.

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