Sunday Miscellany

Considering the fickleness of memory, and why seemingly insignificant moments can remain with us for a lifetime See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On life in a lodging house called Kilkenny House in Dublin – an All-Ireland mecca See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A childhood summer on the family farm, and a scene perceived from a hiding place in the long grass See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The closure of the Grafton Gallery evokes memories of the artists, writers and characters of Dublin’s bohemian life See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recalling childhood memories of family life, and understanding why a father was “always looking backwards” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An appreciation of the writer and academic Seán Ó Tuama, and his contribution to Irish-language literary criticism See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A glorious serenade to the power of song See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A mother's knowledge and love of music passed on through the Pye record player See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Early musical experimentation that ranged wildly before finally settling at the organ in a Limerick cinema See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Choral competitiveness in a small Welsh village, with a legend-in-waiting amongst the performers See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The eternally patient piano teacher striving to teach less-than enthusiastic pupils...and one less-than-competent sight reader See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The transportive powers of Count John McCormack stretch across generations - and oceans See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meditations on character from the Miscellany archive, with John Ryan, Bill Kelly, Catherine Marshall, Michael Harding, Val Mulkerns and Maria O'Rourke. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The mysteries of cricket, the joy of the Park Run, celebrations of writer Maura Laverty and musician Glen Hansard — and a tempting treat for a magpie, with John O'Donnell, AM Cousins, John Egan, Breda Joyce, Denis Tuohy, Jackie Lynam and Grace Wells. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From a mighty session in Dingle to Croagh Patrick to the Heinrich Böll cottage in Achill, an All-Ireland state of mind, with Séamus Moran, Grace Wells, John Lawler, Mary Lavery Carrig, Frank Shouldice and Geraldine Mitchell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Limerick and Galway All-Ireland hopes, a Ukrainian love story and the sweet pleasures of a day on the bog, with Antonia Gunko Karelina, Barry Houlihan, Anne Marie Kennedy, Mike MacDomhnaill, Ann Lane O’Connell, John Vincent Cunningham and Bob Kelly. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A selection from the 2013 and 2014 archives, from Grace Wells, John MacKenna, AM Cousins, Sara Baume, Iggy McGovern, Susan Stairs and Cyril Kelly

Veronica Guerin remembered, a voyage into the past on a Donegal island, and a tribute to David Hockney, with Brian Farrell, Fiachra Gallagher, John MacKenna, Gail Seekamp, Billy Collins, Mícheál McCann and Moya Cannon

The father-daughter bond over books, football and furniture, Solstice meditations and remembering the great Tommie Gorman, with Christian O'Reilly, Ann Breslin, Paul Johnston, Nollaig Rowan, Grace Wells, Kevin McDermott and Durgham Mushtaha

Foxes, Fairy Paths and a Midnight Swim - (including some recordings from past Miscellany Live shows) with James Mulvihill, Cyril Kelly, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Enda Wyley, Jessica Traynor, Colin Murphy, Lorraine Nash, Boris Hunka & Diane Daly, Dónal Clancy and West Coast Sounds

Dandelions, foxgloves and bohemian trailblazers, life over John B Keane's pub and a friendship forged in literature and music — first of two programmes recorded in St John's Theatre, Listowel, with Joanna Keane O'Flynn, Zaffar Kunial, Elaine Garvey, Bernard O'Donoghue, Colum McCann, Colm Mac Con Iomaire, West Coast Sounds and Lorrraine Nash

Barefoot runs on Bettystown beach, summers at Dollymount, formative swims, a cliff walk and a fateful family boating trip. With Joe Rooney, Maeve Edwards, Romie Lambkin, Pat Boran, Mae Leonard, Peter Jankowsky and Grace Wells

Cowbells and baby birds, the highs and lows of Arsenal fandom, scaling Mount Brandon and saluting the extraordinary voice of Moya Brennan, with John Toal, Lani O’Hanlon, Oliver Sears, Eileen Heron, Philip Judge, Fr Alan Hilliard and Moya Cannon

Strawberries and sunshine, one family’s Census night story, a tribute to beloved poet Paul Durcan, and a gift of a lifetime… with Emer Casey, Pat Boran, Caroline Heffernan, AM Cousins, Mary O’Donnell and Tom Conaty

Secrets of the landscape and the art of songwriting; dogs, dharma and a jar of pickles, with Jim Culleton, Michael Cullen, Katrina Bruna, John Toal, John MacKenna, Grace Wells and Billy Collins