Geraldine Connolly
154 posts
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"Out here on the West coast of Clare, the midsummer days take so long to fade over the wide Atlantic ocean, that they hardly ever darken. Short hours of dusky half-light pass before another dawn comes..." Next, Grace Wells #solstice #Poulnabrone @RTERadio1 @rte #sundaymiscellany
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"I met my father on the road the other day. He was behind me on the cycle path in his old jalopy of a Jeep. I was cycling back towards Westport when I heard the horn pipping me..." To close, Kate Carty with My Father, Saint Patrick @RTERadio1 @RTE_Culture #stpatricksday2023 @rte
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"But the beach was the greatest shock. Where I came from, a beach was a place you went to swim or to fish and we didn’t call them beaches, we called them strands. Why weren’t they swimming? Isn’t that what beaches are for?" Next, William Wall on The Madness of Rimini @RTERadio1
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"He was a man who favoured order and the proper procedure for living a judicious life..." Declan O'Driscoll on his brother, the poet Dennis O'Driscoll, whose 10 year anniversary is approaching, next @JacqBetula #sundaymiscellany @RTERadio1 @RTE_Culture @rte
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"It nearly broke my heart the other day
when I heard Mick Dell on the wireless,
his saxophone music enticed me away
from the pan of rashers on the cooker,
spirited me
Under the Bridges of Paris...." Next, a poem from Margaret Galvin @Margare01238242 #MickDelahunty @rte
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@RTESunMisc @BrianFarrellPh1 @RTERadio1 @RTE_Culture @rte Loved this ..”there’s no place like home “ Thankyou Brian Farrell
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"They tore down our church so they did. Piece by piece it was lorried away. Stephen Walsh’s massive stained glass windows went first and then the roof..." @BrianFarrellPh1 is up first this morning #ChurchoftheAnnunciation #Finglas @RTERadio1 @RTE_Culture #sundaymiscellany @rte
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@RTESunMisc @rte Priceless ….Broke my sides laughing …Horse with no name has got to be one of my favourites….Spent a lot of time in the 90s in the Saudi Desert heading to the Reef for Scuba or Hash house harrier runs ..Thankyou John McKenna …
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"‘We’re doing well,’ Frank assured me. ‘Another 90 minutes and we should be there.’ More miles. More desert. And then we saw it, a tatty sign by the roadside, victim of years of sandstorms and the occasional gunshot. Las Vegas Lies Ahead, it read..." John MacKenna, next @rte
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"I saw my mother’s grave
from the top of the bus recently,
She died in 1971
I only saw her grave
from this angle a few days ago.
I was a great one for the buses years ago.
I even wrote a poem about it..."
To close, My Mother Loved Me In Red by Rita Ann Higgins @RTERadio1 @rte
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"It was a Friday night, late in the summer of 1972, and the disco doors were closing: the last broken-hearts taking themselves out into the night; the music silent and a full moon hanging above the village like a Christmas decoration..." John MacKenna is next #sundaymiscellany
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"Three tea chests marked Promenade Deck, Cabin 28 were loaded on to a donkey and cart, bound for the railway station in Tuam..." Breda Joyce, next, on her aunt's six week voyage in 1964 aboard the Northern Star, heading off to the foreign missions @RTERadio1 #sundaymiscellany
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@RTESunMisc @rte Wonderful….Read Ireland to India on a bike ,4 weeks after my mum died ..it was my companion on my cycle from Manali to Leh …a great comfort at night in my tent looking at the Starry Himalayan Night sky …So Thankyou for this piece this morning,brought back lovley memories.🙏
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"I loved her list of kit at the back of the book – spare woollen underwear and a 1.25 automatic pistol, which she had to use when attacked by wolves cycling through the Balkans..." What Would Dervla Do by Margaret Ward, up first this morning #DervlaMurphy #sundaymiscellany @rte
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@RTESunMisc @rte “A Woman of no expectations “ So beautifully written and touching ..she left her own legacy …loved this …
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"On the train, I thought about my aunt Lal. The quiet woman who was a constant fixture in the kitchen of her sister's shop, whose life was a continuum of service to others, who raised one family and then another without ever having a child of her own." John MacKenna is next @rte
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@RTESunMisc @RTERadio1 @rte @RTE_Culture Love the bit about the mouse …can really visualise that conversation….”every creature wants to live as long as he can” Thankyou John McKenna …
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"We seemed to have the ability to push each other’s buttons, to wind each other up about everything from politics to the length of my hair..." John MacKenna is next with a meditation on his relationship with his father @RTERadio1 @rte @RTE_Culture #sundaymiscellany #FatherandSon
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"The invasion of Ukraine came a week after my mother, Monika's 83rd birthday, which I had celebrated in Chile, where she lives, with her husband, Carlos who is almost 88..." Next up is an extraordinary story of three kinds of catharsis from Oliver Sears @osearsgallery @rte
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@RTESunMisc @karenjmcdonnell Loved the Uaigneas connection…it does kind of feel like a Nostalgic kind of Uaigneas …
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"It wasn’t just the characters that drew us in. There was Venice, the cars, the interior settings, Oxford colleges in all their glory, and rising above them all – Castle Howard – standing in as Sebastian’s family home..." @karenjmcdonnell, on Brideshead Revisited at 40, next
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@tim_carey1 @RTESunMisc Fabulous …Really enjoyed this ..Thankyou..Hearing Hills st Blues music given me the hankering to watch Captain Furillo in action again..
Wicklow, Ireland 🇮🇪 English
Just to let you know I will be on RTE Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany 4th of July show tomorrow with another spin of a piece I did about my mother and the great American actor Daniel J Travanti, AKA Captain Furillo of the seminal1980s TV cop series Hill Street Blues.
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Wicklow, Ireland 🇮🇪 English
"In the early 1980s, a new American television series called Hill Street Blues hit Irish TV screens. It was a police drama unlike anything we’d seen before..." @tim_carey1 on meeting his mother's childhood sweetheart, Daniel J Travanti, aka Captain Furillo, next @RTE @RTERadio1
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