Recalling the simple pleasures of a favourite West Cork beauty spot, and wondering what might be lost as modern tourism rapidly develops

Recalling the simple pleasures of a favourite West Cork beauty spot, and wondering what might be lost as modern tourism rapidly develops

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

The Attractions of Unspoiled Places, by Eric Cross (from 1968)

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