Sunday Miscellany: A Selection from 2008-2011

Cliodhna Ni Anluain (Editor)

• ISBN10: 1848400861
• ISBN13: 9781848400863
• Publish Date: 4 April 2011
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 22 April 2021
• Publish Country: IE
• Imprint: New Island Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 450
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

My memory of Sundays include Sunday Miscellany, hearing the different voices early in the morning as everyone woke, listening to the song, poetry and read prose stories that were snippets of life in Ireland. These days I listen by podcast, missing the music and poetry (for copyright reasons, bah humbug) but it still brings a certain nostalgia.
(here's RTE's website for it http://www.rte.ie/radio1/sundaymiscellany/ and the podcast website: http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_sundaymiscellany.xml )

This is the prose and poetry. Stories about life, about weather, about memories, philosophical and funny (sometimes simultaneously) these stories are of Ireland, written with the cadence of the English spoken in Ireland this is one of the best ways to understand the Irish and how a story is built in Ireland. I would recommend this to people trying to capture Ireland and the Irish from the 20th and 21st century. Often it captures an ordinary day but paints it in a brilliant light of warm love. The stories are funny, philosphical, (and sometimes both); entertaining and heartwarming. It's worth a read, or two.