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

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

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

Donnybrook Fair, by Ann Marie Durkan

‘Pen in hand, a monk sat, bored –

This translation had him floored…’

‘Pen in hand, a monk sat, bored –This translation had him floored…’

An emotional education in a Raphoe boarding school

An emotional education in a Raphoe boarding school

On a pioneering female-led family business of scriveners in 19th Century Dublin

On a pioneering female-led family business of scriveners in 19th Century Dublin