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

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

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 Master’s Request, by Shane Fagan (from 1998)

On a remarkable friendship with the engineer of the Twin Towers, Leslie Robertson

On a remarkable friendship with the engineer of the Twin Towers, Leslie Robertson

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

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

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

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