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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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ALT Eric Cross
ALT Angela Keogh
ALT Pearse Hutchinson
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
ALT Colm Tóiín
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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ALT Joe Brennan
"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
ALT Tom Mooney
"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
ALT Margaret Galvin
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
ALT Colm Tóibín
ALT Margaret Galvin
ALT Joe Brennan
ALT Cal O'Reilly
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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"The slow creep of wet mosses…lime green, raspberry red..swallowing up pools, ferns, rushy grasses, fallen trees, tree roots. And deer with giant antlers. Blanket bog, raised bog, active bog..." finally, Claire Cotter @IAFarchitecture @IrishPeatland @UCCPeatlands @RTERadio1
ALT Claire Cotter
"Recently I have been spending some time out of my city and down on the bogs of the midlands. Almost three years in fact..." on the way, architect @Emmett_Scanlon @IAFarchitecture @IrishPeatland @UCCPeatlands @RTERadio1
ALT Emmett Scanlon
"Growing up in west Roscommon, we were never far from the bog. When I looked out my window in the morning the predominant colour was purple heather, accentuated by yellow gorse..." up next, Anthony Baggott @IAFarchitecture @IrishPeatland @UCCPeatlands @RTERadio1
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"What do you call a sod of turf in French? It’s the only thing I was never able to explain. How do you describe its texture, its weight, how rough it is when it’s dry?..." on the way, @mchughkar @IAFarchitecture @IrishPeatland @UCCPeatlands @RTERadio1
ALT Karen McHugh
"The old bog road. Immortalised in memories and song anywhere Irish people gather. But have you heard of the oldest bog road? How old, you ask? Would 148 BC impress you?..." up next, Niamh Donnellan @IAFarchitecture @UCCPeatlands @IrishPeatland @RTERadio1
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"..Two cousins led me to this bog, bordering on to the Shannon, and as we left the stony road and stepped onto the bogland path, it was like walking on a trampoline...." first today, @mmhhickey in Monakeeba @RTERadio1 @IAFarchitecture
ALT Margaret Hickey
Today, the Irish boglands: past, present and imagined future. Writing the Bog (Pt 1), with Irish Architecture Foundation and 12th Field’s Bog Bothy Project. With @mmhhickey Niamh Donnellan @mchughkar Anthony Baggott @Emmett_Scanlon Claire Cotter @IAFarchitecture @IrishPeatland
