Why there's something special to be found in almost all places of worship, whatever your faith, your beliefs, or none at all

Why there's something special to be found in almost all places of worship, whatever your faith, your beliefs, or none at all

Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.

Radio essays, poems and complementary music, broadcast from Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1, Sunday mornings since 1968.

Sunday Miscellany

Church Going, by Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha

Remembering the old Harcourt Street Railway Line, and mourning its rapid disappearance from the landscape

Remembering the old Harcourt Street Railway Line, and mourning its rapid disappearance from the landscape

How Eileen Gray created her modernist villa in 1920s France, and a visit to the crumbling house many decades later

How Eileen Gray created her modernist villa in 1920s France, and a visit to the crumbling house many decades later

Describing the Spanish ritual of the ‘paseo’, and comparing Sunday customs in Dublin and Barcelona

Describing the Spanish ritual of the ‘paseo’, and comparing Sunday customs in Dublin and Barcelona