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"Tá an geimhreadh ag druidim isteach
Na laethanta ag éirí níos fuaire
Duilleoga á scuabadh chun siúil..."
To close: Ag Geimhriú, a poem by Catherine Foley #sundaymiscellany
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"Soft dark rain misted on soft dark nights, like a gentle country voice with none of the insistence of the cold city.
I love the dark under lights so you can see it - the wet foliage glistening in the damp dark mild evening, prelude to dark you can’t see..." Kevin Gildea is next
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"In March 1726, Jonathan Swift left Dublin for London carrying a manuscript that would become one of the most famous books ever written. Swift knew this book might make his reputation. He also knew it could land him in trouble..." @GerryMullins1, next, with Swift's Dangerous Book
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"She filled the space like a living orb; a circle of dappled shade on the ground beneath her. Judging by the girth of the trunk, unusually large for an apple tree, she must been planted over a century ago, when the site was a busy working farm..." Amanda Bell is next
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"A spaceship lands in the middle of a Connemara bog, all glass and steel, a low-rise building with a car park in front: it’s Teilifís na Gaeilge, T na G, its logo etched in gold and blue at the entrance..." Anne McCabe is up first, on being part of the launch of TnaG, 1996 @TG4TV
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'“I’d like to give your daughter some candy,” Leonard said. “I think there’s some in my suitcase.” At this, Lydia perked up, smiled and wriggled out of my arms....' @JohnMacKen48362 is up first this morning with Absent Friend, marking Leonard Cohen's tenth anniversary @RTERadio1
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50 years ago this month the design world lost one of its great pioneers. No better time for a tribute to Eileen Gray's modernist masterpiece E-1027, in this anniversary month, than by @PatriciaDublin from Oct 25. Find it (& other archive treasures) on our website or RTÉ Listen
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It's an archive dip today - stretching back to our earliest days....Ireland during WWII, Eileen Gray's modernist villa and the Harcourt St Railway Line. With Mervyn Wall, Tom MacIntyre, Eric Cross, Angela Keogh, Pearse Hutchinson, @PatriciaDublin and John Ryan @RTERadio1
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Being awestruck by a little-known operatic revelation - Colm Tóibín describes this experience in 'Rediscovering Carmen Bustamante'. Hear it, and many others marking Wexford Festival Opera @ 75, from 18 October, on our website or RTÉ Listen @AuthorToibin @wexfordopera
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The Wexford Opera House draws thousands annually, but on the eve of the millenium starlings wanted in on the act...as Tom Mooney relates in 'Like A Bird On A Beam' from 18 Oct. Catch it (and more from our Opera @ 75 special) our website or on RTÉ Listen @wexfordopera @RTERadio1
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"People often ask me, how did you become a storyteller? Like many stories, there's a long version and a short..." up next, Joe Brennan @wexfordopera
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"The town fills its lungs full..and sweeps shawls and scarves and suits along streets…” to close today, a poem from Cal O'Reilly @poetryireland @wexfordopera @RTERadio1
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"The Festival is back! Nothing can dim the style, the glamour or the world-class music that the Opera Festival brings to the good people of Wexford town..." A.M. Cousins is our penultimate writer today, @wexfordopera @RTERadio1 @poetryireland
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"The little Protestant church of St Iberius in Wexford town describes itself as one of Wexford's oldest treasures..it has much to offer the casual visitor..." Jackie Morrissey is on the way @wexfordopera @RTERadio1
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"The night the birds gatecrashed the Opera House has entered Wexford folklore. I remember it all too well because I was there on the eve of the new millenium..." on the way, Tom Mooney @wexfordopera @RTERadio1
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"In The Dead by James Joyce, Aunt Kate, in a discussion about singers, announces that for her there was only one tenor..His name, she said, ‘was Parkinson. I heard him when he was in his prime..." next, @AuthorToibin @wexfordopera @RTERadio1
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"It was always agreed in Wexford that the Festival shortens the winter for us..it ensured that Wexford was way ahead of other Irish towns..." opening today's programme, @Margare01238242 @RTERadio1 @wexfordopera
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Today, opening night fireworks, Turkish Delight, a soprano at the window and starlings in song. Wexford Festival Opera at 75, with stories from @AuthorToibin @Margare01238242 Joe Brennan, Tom Mooney, Jackie Morrissey, A.M. Cousins and Cal O’Reilly @poetryireland @wexfordopera
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How would you describe a bog, to somebody who's never seen one? That's the conundrum Karen McHugh faced in France, as 'An Emigrant Bog-Dweller'. Listen to this - and all our other Writing the Bog special pieces - from 11 October on our website/RTÉ Listen @RTERadio1 @mchughkar
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Last Sunday, 11 October, architect Emmett Scanlon explained why he was spending so much time in a midlands bog... Find out why, any time, on rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-m… or RTÉ Listen @IAFarchitecture
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