The Pattern
"So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which b...
5 Sep 20136min
The High Nelly museum in Bob's Bar
2021 update: please note that the museum upstairs is no longer open. Anyone passing through County Laois on the M8 is missing a lot. The nearby village of Durrow has many fine features going for it -...
4 Sep 20131min
Atlas of County Donegal
Ireland's most beautiful county, Donegal has both a vast landscape and a fascinating past. Surprisingly for an area so rich in heritage and culture, there has been no one major work bringing together ...
3 Sep 20131min
Death of a natural
30th August 2013: The sad news was announced today of Seamus Heaney's death. Airwaves and social media in Ireland are abuzz with kind words about this most generous and avuncular of Irishmen. A collec...
30 Aug 201354s
Rosebutt
The year is 2041. From the balcony of a crumbling pile overlooking Margate, reclusive media mogul Simon Phillip Cowell sits heavily on his designer commode looking despondently down below at an ice cr...
27 Aug 20132s
Dulse and Yellowman
Speaker: Sean McMahon RIP The Auld Lammas Fair has been held in Ballycastle since the 17th Century. It takes place on the last Monday and Tuesday of August and traditionally marks the end of the summ...
26 Aug 201336s
A Yeats overview: monkey glands and all
On this day 45 years ago, the 23rd August 1968, George Yeats, wife of William Butler Yeats, passed away. They say that you should never meet your idols, nevermind marrying one. Iconic figures in liter...
23 Aug 20132min
Site of Ireland's first planted potato
On the 3rd October 2014, National Potato Day, we celebrate the humble spud by trawling through our audio portfolio to reveal where it is thought Ireland cultivated its first potato. We fully understan...
23 Aug 20132min
