‘Pen in hand, a monk sat, bored –

This translation had him floored…’

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

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

Pangur Bán and Audrey, a poem by the late Gordon Snell

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

On a few wee Donegal and Derry sayings